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Awesome Widget Gallery

Photo Gallery is an advanced plugin with a list of tools and options for adding and editing images for different views. It is fully responsive. The product includes plugin for adding image galleries and albums to posts…

Active installs<10New
Downloads · 30d32▲ +113.3% vs prev. 30d
Rating—0 reviews
Health score21/100At risk
All-time downloads1.3KSince Mar 2017
Support resolved—No recent threads
RequiresWP 4.6PHP any
Downloads · 7d4• 0% week over week
Our verdict

Consider an alternative

Awesome Widget Gallery shows warning signs in 2026 — compare the alternatives below before installing. Was last updated 8 years ago, and scores 21/100 on our health check.

  • Small user base (<10 active installs)
  • Very few reviews so far
  • No update in 7 years
  • Only tested up to WordPress 4.7 (latest is 7.1)

How does it stack up?

Side-by-side on installs, updates, ratings & support

Daily downloads

123Jul 19Sep 1Oct 16
Yesterday2
Daily average (1y)1
Peak day11May 15, 2026
Last 12 months336

Download spikes usually follow a new release — each site that auto-updates counts as a download.

Rankings

Where Awesome Widget Gallery stands today

WordPress.org search rankings

Live position in the plugin search, top 100
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awesome photo galley #5 7 Best awesome photo galley plugins →
photo >100 3,511 Best photo plugins →
photo gallery >100 1,346 Best photo gallery plugins →
widget photo gallery >100 639 Best widget photo gallery plugins →

About Awesome Widget Gallery

From the official readme · v1.2.0

Description

Photo Gallery is an advanced plugin with a list of tools and options for adding and editing images for different views. It is fully responsive. The product includes plugin for adding image galleries and albums to posts and pages, as well as multiple widgets. You can add images, providing detailed descriptions and tags, organize the galleries into different album.

A few notes about the sections above:

  • “Contributors” is a comma separated list of wordpress.org usernames
  • “Tags” is a comma separated list of tags that apply to the plugin
  • “Requires at least” is the lowest version that the plugin will work on
  • “Tested up to” is the highest version that you’ve successfully used to test the plugin. Note that it might work on
    higher versions… this is just the highest one you’ve verified.
  • Stable tag should indicate the Subversion “tag” of the latest stable version, or “trunk,” if you use /trunk/ for
    stable.

    Note that the readme.txt of the stable tag is the one that is considered the defining one for the plugin, so
    if the /trunk/readme.txt file says that the stable tag is 4.3, then it is /tags/4.3/readme.txt that’ll be used
    for displaying information about the plugin. In this situation, the only thing considered from the trunk readme.txt
    is the stable tag pointer. Thus, if you develop in trunk, you can update the trunk readme.txt to reflect changes in
    your in-development version, without having that information incorrectly disclosed about the current stable version
    that lacks those changes — as long as the trunk’s readme.txt points to the correct stable tag.

    If no stable tag is provided, it is assumed that trunk is stable, but you should specify “trunk” if that’s where
    you put the stable version, in order to eliminate any doubt.

Arbitrary section

You may provide arbitrary sections, in the same format as the ones above. This may be of use for extremely complicated
plugins where more information needs to be conveyed that doesn’t fit into the categories of “description” or
“installation.” Arbitrary sections will be shown below the built-in sections outlined above.

A brief Markdown Example

Ordered list:

  1. Some feature
  2. Another feature
  3. Something else about the plugin

Unordered list:

  • something
  • something else
  • third thing

Here’s a link to WordPress and one to Markdown’s Syntax Documentation.
Titles are optional, naturally.

Markdown uses email style notation for blockquotes and I’ve been told:

Asterisks for emphasis. Double it up for strong.

<?php code(); // goes in backticks ?>

Installation

This section describes how to install the plugin and get it working.

e.g.

  1. Upload the plugin files to the /wp-content/plugins/plugin-name directory, or install the plugin through the WordPress plugins screen directly.
  2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ screen in WordPress
  3. Use the Settings->Plugin Name screen to configure the plugin
  4. (Make your instructions match the desired user flow for activating and installing your plugin. Include any steps that might be needed for explanatory purposes)

Changelog

Upgrade notices describe the reason a user should upgrade. No more than 300 characters.

1.0

  • A change since the previous version.
  • Another change.

0.5

  • List versions from most recent at top to oldest at bottom.

Full changelog on WordPress.org →

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FAQ

Awesome Widget Gallery: quick answers

Straight answers, pulled from live WordPress.org data.

Live data from WordPress.org · checked Oct 17, 2026

Is Awesome Widget Gallery free?

Yes. Awesome Widget Gallery is free to download and use from the official WordPress.org plugin directory.

Is Awesome Widget Gallery safe to use in 2026?

Awesome Widget Gallery shows warning signs in 2026 — compare the alternatives below before installing. Was last updated 8 years ago, and scores 21/100 on our health check.

How many websites use Awesome Widget Gallery?

Awesome Widget Gallery is active on <10 WordPress websites and has been downloaded 1,315 times since it launched in March 2017. It was downloaded 32 times in the last 30 days.

Does Awesome Widget Gallery work with WordPress 7.1?

Awesome Widget Gallery is officially tested up to WordPress 4.7.38, while the latest release is 7.1.3. It may still work, but try it on a staging site first.

When was Awesome Widget Gallery last updated?

The latest version, 1.2.0, was released on January 17, 2019 (8 years ago).

Who makes Awesome Widget Gallery?

Awesome Widget Gallery is developed and maintained by Raihanul Islam.

What are the best alternatives to Awesome Widget Gallery?

The most popular alternatives to Awesome Widget Gallery are Awesome Wp Mixitup Portfolio (100+ installs), Awesome Wp Photo Gallery (80+ installs) and Simple Wp Mixitup Portfolio (<10 installs).

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