by WPXERO 3.5 (2 reviews)

Photo Sphere Viewer – 360° Panorama, Virtual Tour, 360 Video & AR 3D Model Viewer

Name: Photo Sphere Viewer – 360° Panorama, Virtual Tour, 360 Video & AR 3D Model Viewer
Rating: 3.5 (2 reviews)
Author: WPXERO

Embed 360° panoramas, multi-scene virtual tours, 360 video and AR-ready 3D models in WordPress. Works with the block editor, Elementor and shortcodes.

Photo Sphere Viewer ranks #8,538 among WordPress.org plugins with 600+ active installations, is #949 of 6,327 in the Media category, a 3.5/5 rating from 2 reviews, and was last updated Sep 12, 2026. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.

Compatible with WP 7.1

v2.3.0 Current Version v2.3.0

Updated 1 week ago Last Update on 12 Sep, 2026

Refreshed 10 hours ago Last Refreshed on

#949 of 6,327 in Media Top 25% by installs Downloads +310.6% this week Actively maintained

View on WordPress.org

Rank

#8,538

+13 this week

Active Installs

600+

+2.7%

KW Avg Position

— No change

Downloads

7.4K

+22 today

Support Resolved

— No change

Rating

70%

Review 3.5 out of 5

3.5 (2 reviews)

Next Milestone 700

Total Progress 43%

600+ 700+

440

Ranks to Climb

Growth Needed

8,000,000

Active Installs

Pro

Unlock Exact Install Count

See the precise estimated active installs for this plugin, calculated from real-time ranking data.

Exact install estimates within tiers
Track install growth over time
Milestone progress predictions

Upgrade to Pro

Need 57 more installs to reach 700+

Rank Changes

Current #8,538

Change

Best #

Upgrade to Pro

Unlock 30-day and 90-day rank history charts with a Pro subscription.

Upgrade Now

Active Installs Growth

Upgrade to Pro

Active Installs 0,000,000+

Growth +0.0%

Peak 0,000,000

Downloads Growth

Downloads

Growth

Peak

Upgrade to Pro

Unlock 30-day, 90-day, and yearly download history charts with a Pro subscription.

Upgrade Now

Reviews & Ratings

3.5

2 reviews

Overall 70%

1 (50%)

0 (0%)

1 (50%)

0 (0%)

Support Threads Overview

Resolved

Unresolved

Total Threads

Resolved

Unresolved

Resolution Rate

Security History

Source: WPVulnerability

No known vulnerabilities on record for Photo Sphere Viewer. Checked 1 month ago.

Track This Plugin

Get detailed analytics, keyword tracking, and position alerts delivered to your inbox.

Start Tracking Free

Plugin Details

Version: 2.3.0
Last Updated: Sep 12, 2026
Requires WP: 5.0+
Tested Up To: 7.1
PHP Version: 7.4 or higher
Author: WPXERO

Support & Rating

Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ 3.5
Reviews: 2
Support Threads: 1
Resolved: 0%

Keywords

360 Video 360 panorama 3D model viewer Virtual Tour real-estate

Upgrade to Pro

Unlock keyword rankings, search positions, and detailed analytics with a Pro subscription.

Upgrade Now

Similar Plugins

Adminify – White Label, Admin Menu Editor, Login Customizer

6K+ installs

#2,754

Master Addons for Elementor – Elementor Addons, Widgets, Mega Menu Builder, Popup Builder, Widget Builder & Template Kits

30K+ installs

#1,007

Jetpack – WP Security, Backup, Speed, & Growth

3M+ installs

#18

Advanced Custom Fields (ACF®)

2M+ installs

#28

Image Optimization - Compress Images and Convert to WebP or AVIF

Regenerate Thumbnails

1M+ installs

#64

Smush – Image Optimization, Compression, Lazy Load, WebP & CDN

1M+ installs

#65

Imagify Image Optimization: Optimize Images | Compress & Convert to WebP/AVIF

View all Media plugins

TL;DR

AI summary of the plugin's readme

This plugin is for real estate agents, hoteliers, photographers, museums, WooCommerce stores, architects, and drone pilots who want to embed 360° content in WordPress. It solves the problem of showing panoramas, virtual tours, 360° video, and AR 3D models without iframes, third-party embed accounts, or WordPress's automatic image re-compression degrading high-resolution panoramas.

Panorama viewer
Virtual tour builder with hotspots
360° video player
AR 3D model viewer (.glb/.gltf)
Elementor widgets
Shortcode Builder admin screen
Original-resolution image loading
Gutenberg block support

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about Photo Sphere Viewer – 360° Panorama, Virtual Tour, 360 Video & AR 3D Model Viewer

Equirectangular JPEG or PNG for panoramas, MP4 (or most common web video formats) for 360 video, and .glb/.gltf for the AR viewer.

No — shortcodes cover everything the Elementor widgets do. Shortcodes in particular go pretty much anywhere: posts, pages, widget areas, theme builders, even WooCommerce product descriptions.

That's WordPress doing it, not the plugin. Since 5.3, anything over 2560px on its long edge gets saved as a -scaled.jpg and served instead of your original. The plugin's ImageResolver can bypass that and load the real upload instead. It's a Pro feature — switch it on with the "Use Original Image" control in any Elementor widget, or use_original="yes" on a shortcode.

Yes, along with Qoocam, Kandao, and Android Photo Sphere XMP captures. Anything that's a properly stitched equirectangular image works without conversion.

Yes — drag-to-look, pinch-to-zoom, two-finger gestures all work on touch. Pro adds gyroscope mode so tilting the phone moves the view, which needs HTTPS to work.

As many as you want. Link them with 3D arrow hotspots, give each one its own caption and starting angle, and choose which scene opens first. Works in both the Elementor PSV Virtual Tour widget and the [psv_tour] shortcode.

The PSV 360° Video widget or [psv_video] shortcode handle that — play/pause, seek, volume in the navbar. Autoplay and loop are Pro-only.

Yes, through the AR 3D Viewer widget or [psv_ar] shortcode. It renders .glb/.gltf files via Google's <model-viewer> and shows an AR button on phones that support it. Pro adds HDR lighting, a skybox, custom camera orbit, and locks for zoom/tap-to-rotate — useful if you're building a product configurator and don't want visitors spinning things by accident.

Every panorama and tour scene has a starting yaw (-180° to 180°) and pitch (-90° to 90°), set in the Elementor controls or via the default_yaw/default_pitch shortcode attributes.

Yes, through shortcodes or Elementor templates — a reasonable alternative to paying for a hosted 360-product-viewer service.