Grade A

Visual Portfolio, Photo Gallery & Post Grid

⤓ Download v3.6.1 on WordPress.org ↗

by nKupdated 2026-05-05✨The Quiet Achiever

Gorgeous layouts that come with a side of persistent admin banners.

HealthyGrowing

85/100

The plugin offers excellent visual layouts for free but uses annoying admin banners to nudge users toward Pro.

Loved32/40

Trustworthy12/15

Fair & Honest14/15

Maintained18/18

Momentum9/12

Active installs

~65,000

our estimate · wp.org shows 60k+

→ on track for 70k+in ~8 months

Rating

4.8★

332 ratings

Trend · vs a year ago

+12%

Growing

312 → 349 installs/day

Downloads over time

real new installs per day · release spikes shown separately from the trend

2025-04-302025-08-082025-11-162026-02-232026-06-03

organicrelease spikerelease tailorganic trend · 14d rolling median

Growing · +12% in the last year

312/day a year ago→349/day today

Reviews

what people actually say

Visual Portfolio is well-regarded as a capable and visually appealing portfolio/gallery plugin whose free version is considered competitive with paid alternatives, though at least one user flags intrusive admin pop-up banners as a notable annoyance.

What people like

+Free version is feature-rich and considered competitive with paid alternatives on the market×2
+Easy to use with no coding required×3
+Works well across themes and produces visually appealing results×3
+Reliable and stable over long-term use×2

Common complaints

−Plugin injects intrusive pop-up/banner notifications into WordPress admin pages
−Interface could be more intuitive

Review trustReviews look organic

4.65★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.80★
20%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members

Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower

2023-08-192025-01-102026-06-04

5★ reviews1–4★ reviews

All-time ratings · 332 total

5★

298

4★

3★

2★

1★

Latest reviews · 90 analyzed

2026-05-21★★★★★Superb to display posts and galleries. Thumbs up!Frank Otto
2026-04-27★★★★★Versione Free, ma fa quello che volevo!Guido Cappellini
2026-04-15★★★★★Very useful !Béryl de La Grandière
2026-04-13★★★★★Molto utile per grid e mansory emacencini
2026-02-22★★★★★Gutes Plugin birselbert641-shot
2026-02-18★★★★★Ein feines Plugin!tatankadesign1-shot
2026-02-16★★★★★easy to use and looks goood Louise Miller
2026-02-09★★★★★Great Plugin kay9
2026-02-06★★★★★It's works Alex
2025-12-28★★★★★It suited my needs perfectly alexeyaz1-shot

Releases

recent versions from WordPress.org SVN

2026-05-05v3.6.1
2026-03-25v3.6.0
2026-02-18v3.5.2
2026-02-12v3.5.1
2026-02-06v3.5.0
2025-11-10v3.4.1
2025-11-05v3.4.0
2025-09-07v3.3.16

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For developers & the curious

the raw signals behind the grade — none of this is on the friendly summary above

Download 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.

357

Baseline · median of last 7 organic days

368

Prior 7-day baseline

260

Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days

5,291

Mean release-day peak (30d)

322

Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)

-3.0%

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.

Max month share · biggest single 30-day window

0.59

Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty

88%

5★ share in analyzed sample

20%

Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity

-47%

Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo

4.68 → 4.65★

Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered