WP Glideshow
by IWEBIX · Media
WP Glideshow - A revolutionary Javascript Slideshow for Wordpress. Highly customizable and wonderful styling options. A must have for every Wordpress …
41 health vs 63 average across 1,047 Media plugins
High removal-risk signals
63/100Maintenance 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 14+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 3.2.1, well behind 6.8.
Directory ranking optimization
How it's scored →How well this listing is tuned to rank in WordPress.org search, on the factors an owner controls. Not popularity, optimization.
Under-optimized
Biggest win: Update recency
To rank higher: Last updated 5280 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.
Get the full rank-higher report →Daily downloads
Since 2022-10-05 · 1,381 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges
29
now · peak 57
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
Downloads per 1k installs · 30d
Engagement proxy · release spikes are signal, a long slide is an aging base
Estimated active installs
wp.org reports only “20+”. The real number sits in this band.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,374 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-band crossings we have observed, and how long each band took to outgrow
- 2026-05-19 30+ → 20+ down after 2 days in band
- 2026-05-17 20+ → 30+ up after 3 days in band
- 2026-05-14 30+ → 20+ down after 1 days in band
- 2026-05-13 20+ → 30+ up after 10 days in band
- 2026-05-03 30+ → 20+ down after 2 days in band
- 2026-05-01 20+ → 30+ up after 8 days in band
- 2026-04-23 30+ → 20+ down after 7 days in band
- 2026-04-16 20+ → 30+ up after 46 days in band
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach — closest match first
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Smart Slider 3 800K+ installs · 4.9★ · 2 shared tags A -
Depicter — Popup & Slider Builder 80K+ installs · 4.6★ · 2 shared tags A -
Carousel, Slider, Photo Gallery with Lightbox, Video Slider, by WP Carousel 70K+ installs · 4.7★ · 2 shared tags A -
Serious Slider 20K+ installs · 3.7★ · 2 shared tags B -
Slider by 10Web – Responsive Image Slider 10K+ installs · 4.4★ · 2 shared tags C -
Image Slider 4K+ installs · 3.6★ · 2 shared tags B
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<iframe src="https://plugins.wpmayor.com/embed/wp-glideshow" width="480" height="300" style="border:0" loading="lazy" title="WP Glideshow — Plugin Pulse"></iframe> WP Glideshow: 20+ active installs, 0.0★ (0 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-07-17. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/wp-glideshow