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Gallery by BestWebSoft – Customizable Image and Photo Galleries for WordPress
Gorgeous galleries that might crash your site on an update.
HealthyDecliningPoor rating
61/100
Users like the features but frequently report that updates break their websites.
Active installs
~13,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 10k+
Rating
4.0★
158 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
-8%
Declining
30 → 28 installs/day
What to watch out for
- MINORverified rating is 3.74★
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 · -8% in the last year
30/day a year ago→28/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayGallery by BestWebSoft is praised for smooth operation and responsive support, but many users report that updates frequently break functionality, including site errors and gallery creation issues.
What people like
- +Runs smoothly and reliably for years without issues
- +Support responds quickly and releases fixes promptly
Common complaints
- −Plugin updates frequently break the site, causing white screens, 500 errors, missing files, or parse errors×5
- −After updates, users cannot create new galleries or change settings×2
- −Thumbnail images are distorted in the free version, requiring purchase of Pro to display correctly
- −Photo uploads and image handling become extremely slow after certain WordPress updates (since 4.3.1)
- −Upgrade process can corrupt existing galleries, and downgrading does not restore them
Review trustMostly organic
- 3.74★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.00★
- 16%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
- past spikeReview timing — up to 100% of all reviews landed in a single month
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2026-02-042026-04-052026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 158 total
Latest reviews · 90 analyzed
- 2026-01-29★★★★★Can't create new galleries anymore, old galleries not visible in Dashboardsander77nl1-shot
- 2021-05-11★★★★★Zero stars – settings stopped workingdoug1451-shot
- 2019-07-31★★★★★An awesome plugingeorge007
- 2019-01-20★★★★★Понравилось. Хороший перевод.Олег
- 2018-03-08★★★★★Upgrade to current versionRoger20131-shot
- 2018-01-16★★★★★Very good and well supportedsgubonius1-shot
- 2017-12-04★★★★★Distorts images unless you buy pro versionDinoSupafly
- 2017-01-25★★★★★Truly awesome pluginnjgd
- 2016-03-08★★★★★It breaks the siteaisles
- 2016-02-09★★★★★Stops working and gives errors after a whileFaithWarren
Releases
recent versions from WordPress.org SVNAlternatives to Gallery by BestWebSoft
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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.
37
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
26
Prior 7-day baseline
56
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
980
Mean release-day peak (30d)
44
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
+42.3%
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.
100%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
2.00
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
64%
5★ share in analyzed sample
16%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
3.76 → 3.74★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered