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Social Media Feed Gallery – Fetch Posts & Reels

by A WP Life · Social

Also makes 31 other plugins · 80.3K+ installs across the portfolio →

Add a responsive Instagram Feed and photo gallery to your site. Display photos and videos with shortcodes. Grid layout and lightbox included.

⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
86 Health · A
Maintenance 100/100
Rating quality 81/100
Support 70/100

86 health vs 55 average across 1,135 Social plugins

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.

90 / 100

Excellent listing optimization

Biggest win: Rating quality

Update recency 100/100
WP compatibility 100/100
Rating quality 57/100
Listing tuning 100/100

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Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-05 · 1,423 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+53% vs prior 30d
11Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

539

now · peak 6.9K

52830d downloads · Aug 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

Social Media Feed Ga · #4951 you Smash Balloon Social · #63 Social Feed Gallery · #528 Spotlight Social Fee · #685

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.

264per 1k installs · Aug 26

Release cadence

Actively maintained
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.

6

releases in the last 12 months

2mo ago

latest release · v1.5.1

46

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

1.5.1 · 2mo ago1.5.0 · 6mo ago1.4.9 · 8mo ago1.4.8 · 9mo ago1.4.7 · 11mo ago1.4.6 · 11mo ago1.4.5 · 1.1y ago1.3.0 · 1.1y ago1.4.4 · 1.2y ago1.4.3 · 1.4y ago1.4.2 · 1.7y ago1.4.1 · 1.8y ago1.4.0 · 1.9y ago1.3.9 · 2.0y ago

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 49% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v1.5 49%
v1.4 24%
v1.3 19%
v1.2 5.6%
v1.1 2.7%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “2K+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
2K–3K ≈2.9K

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

Install history · since 2019-06-04 · 1,435 observations

2KInstalls · Aug 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.

Details

Version
1.5.1
Last updated
8d ago
Added
2019-04-02 · 7 yrs old
Requires WP
5.0
Tested up to
7.1
Requires PHP
7.0

Recent reviews

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  1. anitakhart
    3.3y ago

    Nicely designed and fast plugin. They make improvements as needed. Quick and friendly support. – Anita This topic was modified 3 years, 2 months ago by anitakhart.

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  2. webxzonedrive
    3.7y ago

    great plugin for social feeds for online quran pakistan

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  3. peteca
    7.0y ago

    Instagram is a best platform for marketing. User-friendly easy to handle

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  4. supergerag
    7.0y ago

    I like the plugin and very useful

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  5. brownbill
    7.2y ago

    It is completely customizable. It displays multiple Instagram feeds on the same page or on different pages throughout your site by using our powerful shortcode options. Once installed, you can be displaying your Instagram photos within 30 seconds! No confusing steps or Instagram Developer account needed. It is very user-friendly and no need of. coding.

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Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 7.0.1

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

Languages

via translate.wordpress.org

Translated into 1 language, 0 at 90% or more

Russian 25%

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2025-02-08 3K+ → 2K+ down after 583 days in tier
  2. 2023-07-06 2K+ → 3K+ up after 77 days in tier
  3. 2023-04-20 1K+ → 2K+ up after 173 days in tier
  4. 2022-10-29 900+ → 1K+ up after 9 days in tier
  5. 2022-10-20 800+ → 900+ up

Competes with

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Social Media Feed Gallery – Fetch Posts & Reels: 2K+ active installs, 5.0★ (5 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-28. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/wp-instagram-feed-awplife