Animate It! vs Slideshow
Two WordPress plugins head to head: ranking, active installs, downloads and ratings, from our daily tracking of the WordPress.org directory.
These aren’t all alternatives to each other — they do different jobs — so this page compares popularity only, not features.
At a glance
Animate It! ranks #1,122 on the popular list; Slideshow is outside the top 500 we capture daily. Animate It! has the largest install base, roughly 20× the next: 20K+ active installs against 1K+ for Slideshow. Downloads this week: Animate It! 824 and Slideshow 41.
| Metric | Animate It! | Slideshow |
|---|---|---|
| Popular rank today | #1,122 ▲ 1 | outside top 500 |
| Active installs | 20K+ | 1K+ |
| Downloads, last 7 days | 824 | 41 |
| Rating | 4.9★ (127) | no ratings |
| Last updated | Sep 11, 2026 | Nov 28, 2017 |
| Current version | 3.0.7 | 0.1 |
| Best rank on record | #1,113 | #6,469 |
| Days in the top 50 | 0 | 0 |
| On WordPress.org since | Sep 2014 | Sep 2010 |
Highlighted cells mark the strongest figure in each row. Rank and installs are from the latest WordPress.org capture; downloads are the last seven captured days.
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Frequently asked questions
Which is more popular, Animate It! or Slideshow?
By active installs, Animate It!: 20K+ sites run it against 1K+ for Slideshow, according to WordPress.org figures captured on October 18, 2026.
Are Animate It! or Slideshow alternatives to each other?
Not all of them. Some of these plugins do different jobs and many sites run more than one. This page compares their popularity, not their features.
Where do these numbers come from?
WordPress.org publishes each plugin’s active install count and its position on the popular list. This site records both every day, along with per-day downloads and ratings, so the charts above show how the plugins have moved over time rather than a single day.