NextGEN Gallery is one of the most popular WordPress plugins in the plugin directory.
With over 5 million downloads to date; the gallery plugin has been proven itself to the WordPress community.
So you may ask why this warrants sharing. Well, I’ll tell you.
The State Of WordPress
WordPress is bigger than you may imagine. On April 11, 2012, Pingdom shared very interesting statistics with the WordPress community.
- As it turns out, 48% of the top 100 blogs are using WordPress. That is HUGE. Of course, this is a combination of WordPress.com and self-hosted WordPress installs, but nonetheless, it’s impressive. In addition, just a few years prior, WordPress blogs took 32% of the total.
- By the end of 2011, 20-25% of all new websites published used WordPress. However, as of March 2012, WordPress is used on 72.4 million websites around the world.
- In addition, almost 300 million plugins have been downloaded from the WordPress directory, covering nearly one download per person in the United States (woah!)
You can see statistics more by visiting Yoast’s website for his mind blowing WordPress Stats Infographic.
The State Of NextGEN Gallery
How about some fun NextGEN Gallery specific statistics?
- Of the 19,364 plugins in the WordPress directory, NextGEN Gallery is currently #9
- According to PressTrends as of March 1, 2012, of the 30,000 WordPress sites using their benchmarking plugin, NextGEN Gallery is in the top 20. This one isn’t mind blowing until you notice that 7 of the 20 are Analytics and SEO plugins.
As I write this:
- There are 124 plugins designed to compliment the NextGEN Gallery plugin.
- There are over 470 videos related to NextGEN Gallery floating around YouTube
- There are 2 iPhone apps in the App Store to manage and/or share your NextGEN Gallery
So there you have it. I hope you enjoyed the information.
Are you running WordPress and the NextGEN Gallery plugin? Comment below with a link so we can see your galleries.
Thanks for reading,
Scott
Hi,
my WP sites do run NextGen Gallery…
http://www.sensorgraphy.net
http://joerg.knoerchen.net
Cheers
Joerg
Looking great!
Tried a few gallery plugins for wordpress, NextGEN Gallery is the best! Great work !
Hi Scott I’m back again
I have another suggestion for you to put towards the developers
No where can I find anywhere to integrate my collections and sets of photos in Flickr with a gallery. Ideally I would LOVE to use NextGen Gallery – maybe you could suggest to them to integrate Flickr – so we can upload from Flickr to NextGEN gallery by Album(collection or photoset (gallery) AND!!! if you even wanted to go a step further and pull the captions and titles from Flickr to NextGen that would be an awesome feature too – I for one would PAY for that plugin.
Kizzie
I am not sure we will support an outside source as a default option, however we can add that to the request list. Third party developers will likely be ones to support outside sources.
i really liked the gallery plugin, but the main reason why i decided to install it was the possibility to upload pics to the gallery via the iphone app. anyway, the app doesnt work, it only says “verifying nextgen gallery installation…” and nothing else – theres no support, so i have to look for something else.
Hi Manu, we are not affiliated with the iPhone apps out there, but we will plan to work with them in the future to resolve conflicts.
well, i finally made it work. i didnt notice that i have to enable xmlrpc manually if the blog is hosted on 3rd party.
for everyone who has the same problem as me, just enable xmlrpc in the settings -> writing AND add behind your blog url “xmlrpc.php”.
works fine now! thank you for the great gallery and the app
Glad you got it all worked out!
Please, please, please add native support for captions in the slideshow! I have been playing around with some of the other plug-ins that “play nice” with NextGEN and they are almost all horrible.