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Ultimate Before After Image Slider & Gallery – BEAF
Smooth sliders that come with a side of dashboard noise
HealthyDeclining
73/100
The plugin delivers effective image comparisons but uses annoying promotional banners in the dashboard.
Active installs
~35,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 30k+
Rating
4.9★
105 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
-9%
Declining
241 → 219 installs/day
Downloads over time
real new installs per day · release spikes shown separately from the trend2025-04-302025-08-082025-11-162026-02-232026-06-03
organicrelease spikerelease tailorganic trend · 14d rolling median
Declining · -9% in the last year
241/day a year ago→219/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayUltimate Before After Image Slider & Gallery (BEAF) is well-regarded as a simple, effective before/after image tool, though one user reports aggressive promotional spam injected into the WordPress backend.
What people like
- +Easy to use, accessible even for non-technical users×3
- +Does what it promises — delivers a clean, professional before/after slider×4
- +Fast and helpful customer support, including theme-related issues×2
- +Well-suited for photographers and visual tutorial use cases
Common complaints
- −Plugin injects promotional/Black Friday campaign spam across the entire WordPress backend
- −No ability to add links to images
Review trustReviews look organic
- 4.90★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.90★
- 23%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2023-07-202025-01-102026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 105 total
Latest reviews · 90 analyzed
- 2026-05-06★★★★★Very practical and excellent !!takolabo19971-shot
- 2026-03-25★★★★★Very nice!renovarta1-shot
- 2025-10-23★★★★★interesting and effective with excellent supportbjacobs25
- 2025-07-04★★★★★GreatCaveni Nurse Scrubs
- 2025-05-18★★★★★Easy and effectiveateliers197
- 2025-04-26★★★★★Working as expecteddhoffran
- 2025-03-27★★★★★Great pluginporpoise27
- 2025-01-30★★★★★Useful and easy to set upHolmeInc
- 2025-01-16★★★★★Best everfl68dds1-shot
- 2024-12-17★★★★★Really good one !dragonstreet2014
Releases
recent versions from WordPress.org SVNAlternatives to Ultimate Before After Image Slider & Gallery
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the raw signals behind the grade — none of this is on the friendly summary aboveDownload signals
Baselines are computed on organic days only — release spikes and their tails are excluded, so they're not inflated by the auto-update wave.
138
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
210
Prior 7-day baseline
259
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
3,457
Mean release-day peak (30d)
408
Latest day · 2026-06-03(tail)
-34.3%
Week-over-week organic trend
Review signals
Concentration and drive-by metrics drive the review-burst and fake-review flags. 30–40% solo reviewers is normal; we only flag the extremes.
8%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
0.81
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
94%
5★ share in analyzed sample
23%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.87 → 4.90★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered