Yet Another Simple Gallery
by Kermit524 · Media
Yasg is short for Yet Another Simple Gallery. It cannot get any simpler than that - imho.
40 health vs 59 average across 1,703 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 13+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 3.4.2, 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 5095 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 2022-10-06 · 1,380 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges
56
now · peak 169
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 2022-10-05 · 1,378 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2026-06-02 40+ → 30+ down after 133 days in tier
- 2026-01-20 50+ → 40+ down after 2 days in tier
- 2026-01-18 60+ → 50+ down after 325 days in tier
- 2025-02-27 70+ → 60+ down after 92 days in tier
- 2024-11-27 80+ → 70+ down after 377 days in tier
- 2023-11-16 90+ → 80+ down after 5 days in tier
- 2023-11-11 80+ → 90+ up after 1 days in tier
- 2023-11-10 90+ → 80+ down after 1 days in tier
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach — closest match first
- S Social Photo Fetcher 1K+ installs · 3.8★ · 3 shared tags B
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WoowGallery 1K+ installs · 3.8★ · 3 shared tags B -
Responsive Lightbox & Gallery 100K+ installs · 4.9★ · 2 shared tags A -
Lightbox & Modal Popup WordPress Plugin – FooBox 100K+ installs · 3.9★ · 2 shared tags B -
FancyBox for WordPress 30K+ installs · 4.5★ · 2 shared tags B -
Lightbox with PhotoSwipe 20K+ installs · 4.8★ · 2 shared tags A
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