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WP-Cycle Plus Captions

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The WP-Cycle Plus Captions plugin allows you to upload images from your computer, which will then be used to generate a jQuery Cycle Plugin slideshow.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
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46 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 78/100
Support 70/100

46 health vs 56 average across 16,380 Uncategorized plugins

80+

Active installs

≈87 estimated

8.9K

Total downloads

since 2012

4.12★

Rating (adjusted)

5.0★ raw · 3 reviews

-3%

34

Downloads · 30d

category median +19%

High removal-risk signals

63/100

Maintenance and integrity signals that tend to precede a WordPress.org removal. Not an official status, a heads-up to act.

  • Long abandoned. No update in 13+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 3.4.2, well behind 6.8.

Directory ranking optimization

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How well this listing is tuned to rank in WordPress.org search, on the factors an owner controls. Not popularity, optimization.

35 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 0/100
WP compatibility 1/100
Rating quality 54/100
Listing tuning 92/100

To rank higher: Last updated 4955 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.

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Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-05 · 1,428 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

-3% vs prior 30d
8Downloads · Sep 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

34

now · peak 86

4230d downloads · Sep 26

Directory rank vs rivals

wp.org popularity rank over time · higher is better · when a rival's line climbs above yours, they've overtaken you

WP-Cycle Plus Captio · #17380 you WP-Cycle · #3898 GPP Slideshow · #12173 Autoptimize · #77

Update activity

How busy the existing users are, measured as downloads in the last 30 days for every 1,000 active sites. A spike means a new release everyone's pulling; a long, slow decline means an aging user base that updates less.

525per 1k installs · Sep 26

Release cadence

No release in a year
from wp.org release tags

How often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.

0

releases in the last 12 months

13.6y ago

latest release · v0.4.5

12

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

0.4.5 · 13.6y ago0.4.4 · 13.6y ago0.4.3 · 13.6y ago0.4.2 · 13.6y ago0.4.1 · 13.6y ago0.4 · 13.6y ago0.3.3 · 13.6y ago0.3.2 · 13.6y ago0.3.1 · 13.6y ago0.3 · 13.6y ago0.2 · 13.9y ago0.1 · 14.1y ago

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 100% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v0.4 100%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “80+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
80–90 ≈87

Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.

Install history · since 2019-09-19 · 1,377 observations

80Installs · Sep 26

Estimated value

What this plugin might earn a year, and what it might sell for. Modeled from public signals; we don't see anyone's books.

Est. annual revenue

N/A

Est. acquisition value

N/A

No paid tier is visible, so we don't put a figure on revenue or sale value: that would be guessing. The install base is a real asset to an acquirer, just not one public data lets us price. A small install base leaves thin data to model from.

Ratings · 3 reviews

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5★
3 4★
0 3★
0 2★
0 1★
0

Details

Version
0.4.5
Last updated
13.6y ago
Added
2012-08-10 · 14 yrs old
Requires WP
3.0
Tested up to
3.4.2
Requires PHP
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Recent reviews

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  1. ★★★★★ 12sp
    12.5y ago

    Images with captions and a link! Worked without any hitches.

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  2. ★★★★★ Ash Whitney
    13.0y ago

    This is a great plugin – thank you to the developer. Very easy to set up and use, but the added feature of being able to display the picture captions makes it much more useful than WP-Cycle.

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  3. ★★★★★ Anonymous
    13.5y ago

    This plugin adds a straightforward interface to build a jQuery Cycle slideshow with image captions

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Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.3

✓ Low memory footprint
✓ Low page-speed impact
✓ Runs on latest PHP + WP
✓ No PHP errors
✓ No JS errors
✓ Activates cleanly
✓ No resource errors
✓ No external HTTP errors
✓ Optimized database use
✕ Frequently updated

Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

  1. 2026-06-21 90+ → 80+ down after 39 days in tier
  2. 2026-05-13 100+ → 90+ down after 65 days in tier
  3. 2026-03-09 90+ → 100+ up after 96 days in tier
  4. 2025-12-03 100+ → 90+ down after 1097 days in tier
  5. 2022-12-02 200+ → 100+ down after 4 days in tier
  6. 2022-11-28 100+ → 200+ up after 2 days in tier
  7. 2022-11-26 200+ → 100+ down

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