Xpand Image Gallery
by heyestudio · Media
The greatest expandable gallery for your wordpress website, seamless visualization, totally responsive... A unique way to show your images!
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Health
D 46/100
Stale · Likely abandoned · Few reviews
Active installs
30+
≈35 estimated
Momentum
+154%
downloads vs prior 30d
Biggest opportunity: “expandable”, “gallery” and “grid” 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.
46 health vs 62 average across 3,284 Media plugins
Install conversion
How it's measured →0.5%
of downloads still active
At least 30 of 5.9K lifetime downloads are still running, below 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.
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 11+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 4.1.42, well behind 6.8.
Details
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
Most to gain: Update recency
Updated 4220 days ago, past the ~180 days where wp.org starts discounting
Tested up to WordPress 4.1.42; the current branch is 6.8
4.8★ over 4 reviews, smoothed to 4.15★ and held back under 25 reviews
5 of 5 tags set · short description in place
To rank higher: Last updated 4220 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.
Get the full rank-higher report →Search visibility
How it's tracked →Directory searches this plugin turns up in, and which way each one is moving. WordPress.org publishes no history of search positions, so this starts the day we first tracked a keyword and never backfills.
Not enough tracked days yet to call a direction. Momentum needs at least three keywords measured a week or more apart.
wp.org is where the directory puts the plugin for that search. On merit is where it would sit if results were ranked on rating, support and updates, without the install boost. The last column is how far the wp.org position moved, from our first reading in the last 90 days to the latest.
| Keyword | wp.org | On merit | wp.org move, 90 days |
|---|---|---|---|
| xpand your tag | #1 | #2 | 0 |
| expandable your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| gallery your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| grid your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| images your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
1 search this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days. 4 of its tags aren't in the top 24 for their own search.
What to do about it
- “expandable”, “gallery” and “grid” 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.
Daily downloads
Since 5 Oct 2022 · 1,488 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peak 77 · peaks are release surges
Directory rank
Ranked about #23,000 to #24,800, alongside the other plugins at 30+ 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
Update activity
Downloads in the last 30 days for every 1,000 active sites.
Not enough installs to measure. This needs at least 100 active sites; below that, a handful of downloads reads as tens of thousands.
Release cadence
No release in a yearHow 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
11.6y ago
latest release · v1.0.1 · 13 Apr 2015
4
tagged releases on record
Recent releases
What its installed base runs
via wordpress.orgShare 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.
Estimated active installs
The public count shows “30+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.
Crossed into this band 6 months ago; a band this size takes about a year or more to cross, which places it about 50% of the way through.
Install history since 22 Jun 2015
Recent reviews
All reviews on wp.org ↗- ★★★★★ nhungdoan21711.4y ago
Hi, Updated review: We had some awkward email communication between our companies. All the emails got stuck somewhere so we couldn’t reach each other and after 5 days, we got really stressed out that we didn’t receive anything. However, thanks to the very quick response from Hey! team, things got sorted out. One of a better wp gallery plugin with very good price 🙂 Recommended! — This is a very unfortunate rating I have to give you since this is one of the better looking gallery plugin I’ve been by far, that’s why I asked my boss to buy the pro version so we can put caption next to the photos on our website. He went ahead and bought keys for 5 sites last week. It has been a whole week of waiting and 2 emails sent straight to your company to ask for the keys but no answer. Please get back to me ASAP. My self confident and reputation is hanging on a thin line for recommend this to my boss and I don’t want this to be a scam.
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ cascarriento11.6y ago
Looks nice and it´s a good dynamic way to show photos.
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ stbedesantafe11.6y ago
Xpand seemed to be exactly what I was looking for to produce a website for an artist who wanted her pictures to expand on the page. However, when I placed a gallery on the front page, all formatting of the theme I am using (Accessing Zsn) and I ended up with a crude HTML-based page. Here is what the front page looked like before I created an Xpand gallery: http://postimg.org/image/5j16vag4t/ Here is what it looked like after: http://postimg.org/image/dd1sgonxp/ ADDED: Changed rating because developer made adjustments to code to take care of issues.
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ Daniel Pereyra Costas11.9y ago
We have our friend http://soydeportista.com.uy using that plugin!!
Read on wp.org ↗
Behavioral tests
via WP HiveAutomated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.3
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 30 Oct 2026Can an assistant quote this readme? Eight deterministic checks over the wp.org listing, no model involved.
- ✓ Says what it does "The greatest expandable gallery for your wordpress website, seamless visualization, totally responsive... A..."
- ✓ Has a FAQ 7 questions in the FAQ.
- ✓ FAQ asks real questions 6 of 7 read like questions a user would type.
- ! Names who it is for Never says who the plugin is for or what they use it for.
- ! Names what it works with Names no plugin, service or platform it works with.
- ! Headings and lists 0 headings and 3 lists; assistants quote headed sections and bullet lists, not paragraphs.
- ✓ Enough to quote 1,185 characters of description.
- ✓ Tags match the text 4 of 5 tags appear in the text; "grid" does not.
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2026-05-01 40+ → 30+ down after 354 days in tier
- 2025-05-12 50+ → 40+ down after 23 days in tier
- 2025-04-19 40+ → 50+ up after 9 days in tier
- 2025-04-10 50+ → 40+ down after 5 days in tier
- 2025-04-05 40+ → 50+ up after 13 days in tier
- 2025-03-23 50+ → 40+ down after 56 days in tier
- 2025-01-26 40+ → 50+ up after 5 days in tier
- 2025-01-21 50+ → 40+ down after 274 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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Responsive Lightbox & Gallery 100K+ installs · 4.9★ · 2 shared tags B -
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Lightbox with PhotoSwipe 20K+ installs · 4.8★ · 2 shared tags A -
Easy Image Gallery 4K+ installs · 4.5★ · 2 shared tags A -
Easy Image Collage 3K+ installs · 4.4★ · 2 shared tags A - W WOW Slider 3K+ installs · 3.1★ · 2 shared tags F
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