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Portfolio Filter Gallery – Photo Gallery
Showcase your art with ease despite one very strange outlier review.
HealthyGrowing
85/100
Most users love the flexible free features and responsive support despite one unverified fraud claim.
Active installs
~31,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 20k+
Rating
4.8★
345 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
+9%
Growing
180 → 197 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
Growing · +9% in the last year
180/day a year ago→197/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayPortfolio Filter Gallery is well-regarded as a capable and flexible free gallery plugin for visual portfolios, with consistently praised support, though one user raises a serious — if unverified — concern about credit card fraud following purchase.
What people like
- +Support team is responsive and effective at resolving issues×5
- +Free version offers meaningful customization, including up to 7 filters, unlimited images, grid layout options, and drag-and-drop ordering×2
- +Works well as a portfolio/gallery tool for visual artists and professionals×3
- +Shortcode-based integration is easy to embed into any page×2
- +Responsive and performs well on the front end
Common complaints
- −One user reported credit card fraud immediately after purchasing the plugin, though the cause is unverified
- −A past update caused images to lose their custom display order, requiring a hotfix
- −No built-in way to copy and re-edit an existing shortcode's settings to create a modified version
Review trustReviews look organic
- 4.84★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.80★
- 24%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 · 345 total
Latest reviews · 90 analyzed
- 2026-06-01★★★★★Great plugin + supportart1site
- 2026-05-28★★★★★Best Photo Gallery!grav1-shot
- 2026-05-20★★★★★Excellent plugin and supportkoelker121-shot
- 2026-05-15★★★★★Working very goodimpressionestudio
- 2026-04-07★★★★★Very good filter lightbox galleryTrevor
- 2026-02-18★★★★★Excellent plugin avec un excellent supportmarieeveplante1-shot
- 2026-02-13★★★★★A great plugin for filter galleries !lauraperera
- 2026-01-23★★★★★Bonne extensionAtkheos
- 2025-10-06★★★★★Very quick supportRoland1-shot
- 2025-10-06★★★★★FraudLuca Candela
Releases
recent versions from WordPress.org SVNAlternatives to Portfolio Filter 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.
185
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
156
Prior 7-day baseline
156
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
3,803
Mean release-day peak (30d)
2,342
Latest day · 2026-06-03(spike)
+18.6%
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.
10%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
0.92
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
93%
5★ share in analyzed sample
24%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
+33%
Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.79 → 4.84★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered