WP Reel
by Alexey Tikhonov · Media
Create interactive 360° object movie, panorama or stop-motion animation from wordpress gallery.
45 health vs 61 average across 1,250 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 10+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 4.8.28, 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 3731 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
25
now · peak 78
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 “70+”. The real number sits in this band.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,369 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-band crossings we have observed, and how long each band took to outgrow
- 2026-06-19 80+ → 70+ down after 6 days in band
- 2026-06-13 70+ → 80+ up after 4 days in band
- 2026-06-09 80+ → 70+ down after 74 days in band
- 2026-03-27 70+ → 80+ up after 1 days in band
- 2026-03-26 80+ → 70+ down after 19 days in band
- 2026-03-07 70+ → 80+ up after 1 days in band
- 2026-03-06 80+ → 70+ down after 258 days in band
- 2025-06-21 90+ → 80+ down after 131 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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Slideshow SE 2K+ installs · 4.3★ · 2 shared tags A -
Slick Slider 2K+ installs · 4.1★ · 2 shared tags D
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