Its last release was 93 months ago. No release in over two years.
This measures maintenance, not quality. A small, finished plugin that genuinely needed no changes in three years grades ABANDONED here and may still be the right choice. What the grade tells you is whether anyone is there if something breaks.
By Chris Scott, tested up to WordPress 5.0.27. Listing on wordpress.org.
Sharing this plugin's own tags, filtered to ones that are still shipping.
| Silent for | Installs | Plugin | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0mo | 200,000 | Imsanity Shane Bishop · via image | 4.9★ |
| 2mo | 200,000 | Firelight Lightbox Firelight · via image | 4.8★ |
| 6mo | 200,000 | Force Regenerate Thumbnails Shane Bishop · via thumbnails | 4.7★ |
| 0mo | 100,000 | Recent Posts Widget With Thumbnails Kybernetik Services · via featured-image | 4.8★ |
| 2mo | 100,000 | Responsive Lightbox & Gallery dFactory · via image | 4.9★ |
| 4mo | 100,000 | Image Widget Nexcess · via image | 4.9★ |
| 6mo | 100,000 | Simple Lightbox Archetyped · via image | 4.3★ |
| 0mo | 100,000 | reSmush.it : The original free image compressor and optimizer plugin ShortPixel · via image | 4.3★ |
Selected mechanically, not editorially: shipped within 12 months, 1,000+ installs, and 3.5 stars or better where 10+ people rated it. Ranked by install count. Nobody paid to be on this list and there is nothing to pay for.
The scanner reads every plugin a WordPress page declares in its own asset URLs and grades them all at once. Free, no signup.