WordPress plugin comparison

Photonic Gallery & Lightbox for Flickr, SmugMug & Others vs SmugBuy

Photonic Gallery & Lightbox for Flickr, SmugMug & Others

by Sayontan Sinha

10K+ installs4.8

SmugBuy

by chrismartino

10+ installs1.0

At a glance

Photonic Gallery & Lightbox for Flickr, SmugMug & Others has more active installs: 10K+, against 10+ for SmugBuy.
On a typical day, Photonic Gallery & Lightbox for Flickr, SmugMug & Others is downloaded about 119 times, SmugBuy about 1.
Photonic Gallery & Lightbox for Flickr, SmugMug & Others is rated higher: 4.8 out of 5 from 193 reviews, against 1.0 from 1 review.
Photonic Gallery & Lightbox for Flickr, SmugMug & Others was updated more recently: Sep 24, 2026, against Jan 12, 2012 for SmugBuy.
Photonic Gallery & Lightbox for Flickr, SmugMug & Others is tested with a newer WordPress: 7.1.4, against 3.3.2 for SmugBuy.

Photonic Gallery & Lightbox for Flickr, SmugMug & Others leads on 7 of 7 comparable lines.

Metric	Photonic Gallery & Lightbox for Flickr, SmugMug & Others	SmugBuy
Popular rank	#1,752	#42,195
Active installs	10K+	10+
Downloads, last 30 days	4.2K	22
Rating	4.8(193)	1.0(1)
Support threads resolved	56%	–
Tested up to	7.1.4	3.3.2
Search multiplier	×1.46	×0.00
Last release	1 month ago	15 years ago
Requires PHP	7.4	–

From WordPress.org's public data, refreshed every night. Downloads are WordPress.org's official daily figures for the last 30 days.

Track your plugin against its rivals every day: rank, installs, downloads, ratings and their releases, with alerts when anything moves.