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WP Youtube Gallery

by WP-EXPERTS.IN · Media

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WP YouTube Gallery is a simple and lightweight WP plugin that allows you to add a YouTube video gallery to any page or post using a shortcode.

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⚠ Stale⚠ Few reviews

Health

C 61/100

Stale · Few reviews

Active installs

300+

≈350 estimated

Momentum

+15%

downloads vs prior 30d

Biggest opportunity: “gallery”, “video gallery” and “wp video gallery” aren't earning a slot. You list them, but you're not in the first 24 results for those searches. WordPress.org counts only your first five tags, so free the slot for a search you can win.

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61 Health · C
Maintenance 30/100
Rating quality 73/100
Support 70/100
Security 98/100

61 health vs 62 average across 3,284 Media plugins

300+

Active installs

≈350 estimated

20.4K

Total downloads

since 2014 · 1.5% still active

3.9/5

Rating

4.0 on wp.org · 6 reviews

+15%

136

Downloads · 30d

category median +8%

Install conversion

How it's measured →

1.5%

of downloads still active

At least 300 of 20.4K lifetime downloads are still running, above its category: the median Media plugin keeps 0.8%, across 2,319 plugins.

Downloads count every update, not just first installs, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower. Compare against other Media plugins, not across the directory. wp.org reports active installs as the bottom of a band, so the real rate is this or higher.

Ratings · 6 reviews

Read on wp.org ↗
5★
4 4★
0 3★
1 2★
0 1★
1

Details

Version
2.0
Last updated
1.8y ago
Added
2014-08-25 · 12 yrs old
Requires WP
6.0
Tested up to
6.7.11
Requires PHP
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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.

70 / 100

Well optimized

Most to gain: Update recency

Update recency 39/100

Updated 666 days ago, past the ~180 days where wp.org starts discounting

WP compatibility 100/100

Tested up to WordPress 6.7.11; the current branch is 6.8

Rating quality 57/100

4.0★ over 6 reviews, smoothed to 4.09★ and held back under 25 reviews

Listing tuning 92/100

4 of 5 tags set · short description in place

To rank higher: Last updated 666 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.

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Daily downloads

Since 5 Oct 2022 · 1,488 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+15% vs prior 30d
631 Oct 2026

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peak 351 · peaks are release surges

1361 Nov 2026

Directory rank

Ranked about #10,100 to #11,100, alongside the other plugins at 300+ installs. Plugins with the same install count swap places between wp.org requests, so this is where most of them sit. Checked monthly, last on 21 Oct 2026.

Rating trend

Star average over time · dips mark rough releases

41 Nov 2026

Health trend

Composite health score, snapshotted daily

611 Nov 2026

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.

4531 Nov 2026

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

1.8y ago

latest release · v2.0 · 4 Jan 2025

11

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

2.0 · 4 Jan 20251.8 · 8 Oct 20221.9 · 8 Oct 20221.7 · 19 Nov 20191.6 · 20 Jul 20181.5 · 6 Apr 20181.4 · 14 Sep 20171.3 · 2 Feb 20161.2 · 1 Sep 20151.1 · 10 Oct 20141.0 · 5 Sep 2014

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 68% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v2.0 68%
v1.9 20%
Older / other versions 12%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “300+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
300–400 ≈350

Crossed into this band 6 months ago; a band this size takes about a year or more to cross, which places it about 51% of the way through.

Install history since 25 Apr 2015

3001 Nov 2026

Security history

via Wordfence Intelligence

The 1 disclosed vulnerability is patched in the current version (2.0). Sites still on an older version should update.

  1. Patched Medium · 6.4 WP Youtube Gallery <= 1.9 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via id Parameter ↗
    2025-01-06 CVE-2024-12590 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation Affects <= 1.9 Patched in 2.0

Vulnerability records provided by Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. License and terms.

CVE records: Copyright 1999-2026 The MITRE Corporation. CVE terms of use.

Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 6.7.2

✓ 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 4 languages, 0 at 90% or more

Romanian 40%
Swedish 38%
Ukrainian 32%
German 11%

AI assistants

How it's measured →

Whether ChatGPT and Claude name this plugin when asked the category question, and whether the readme gives them something to quote.

Not measured yet for this plugin’s topics. Its tracked searches are not among the measured topics. See the topics measured so far.

Readme readiness

5 of 8 pass · checked 31 Oct 2026

Can an assistant quote this readme? Eight deterministic checks over the wp.org listing, no model involved.

  • ✓ Says what it does "WP YouTube Gallery is a simple and lightweight WP plugin that allows you to add a YouTube video gallery to..."
  • ! Has a FAQ Only 2 questions in the FAQ; 3 or more gives an assistant something to match.
  • ! FAQ asks real questions 0 of 2 FAQ entries are headings, not questions ("undefined").
  • ! Names who it is for Never says who the plugin is for or what they use it for.
  • ✓ Names what it works with Mentions YouTube.
  • ✓ Headings and lists 5 headings and 3 lists.
  • ✓ Enough to quote 1,354 characters of description.
  • ✓ Tags match the text 3 of 4 tags appear in the text; "wp video gallery" does not.

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2026-05-07 400+ → 300+ down after 7 days in tier
  2. 2026-04-30 300+ → 400+ up after 1 days in tier
  3. 2026-04-29 400+ → 300+ down after 38 days in tier
  4. 2026-03-22 300+ → 400+ up after 2 days in tier
  5. 2026-03-20 400+ → 300+ down after 30 days in tier
  6. 2026-02-18 300+ → 400+ up after 4 days in tier
  7. 2026-02-14 400+ → 300+ down after 389 days in tier
  8. 2025-01-21 500+ → 400+ down after 298 days in tier

Competes with

The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach, closest match first. The letter on the right is each plugin's health grade (A best, F worst).

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