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!
46 health vs 68 average across 733 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 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.
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 4113 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
21
now · peak 77
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 “30+”. The real number sits in this band.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,377 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-band crossings we have observed, and how long each band took to outgrow
- 2026-05-01 40+ → 30+ down after 354 days in band
- 2025-05-12 50+ → 40+ down after 23 days in band
- 2025-04-19 40+ → 50+ up after 9 days in band
- 2025-04-10 50+ → 40+ down after 5 days in band
- 2025-04-05 40+ → 50+ up after 13 days in band
- 2025-03-23 50+ → 40+ down after 56 days in band
- 2025-01-26 40+ → 50+ up after 5 days in band
- 2025-01-21 50+ → 40+ down after 274 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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Lightbox & Modal Popup WordPress Plugin – FooBox 100K+ installs · 3.9★ · 2 shared tags B -
Lightbox with PhotoSwipe 20K+ installs · 4.8★ · 2 shared tags A -
Easy Image Collage 4K+ installs · 4.4★ · 2 shared tags A - W WOW Slider 3K+ installs · 3.1★ · 2 shared tags F
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Easy Photography Portfolio 2K+ installs · 4.4★ · 2 shared tags D
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