78
Advanced Post Block – Showcase Posts with Grid, List, Card Layouts and Filters
Stunning layouts that might annoy your server with too many requests.
HealthyGrowing
78/100
The plugin offers great layout flexibility but suffers from performance concerns and a polarizing subscription model.
Active installs
~19,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 10k+
Rating
4.2★
17 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
+90%
Growing fast
65 → 124 installs/day
Downloads over time
real new installs per day · release spikes shown separately from the trend2025-04-302025-08-082025-11-162026-02-232026-06-03
organicrelease spikerelease tailorganic trend · 14d rolling median
Growing fast · +90% in the last year
65/day a year ago→124/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayAdvanced Post Block is well-regarded as a flexible, Gutenberg-native post display plugin with strong free-tier functionality, but users raise concerns about a suspicious file generating excessive server requests, a subscription-based pricing model, and some styling friction.
What people like
- +Strong Custom Post Type support available in the free version, unlike many competing plugins
- +Wide range of styling and layout options (grid, list, card, slider) with meaningful control×3
- +Feels native in the Gutenberg block editor
- +Free version lets users preview locked pro features before purchasing
- +Responsive and effective support team×3
- +Supports displaying pages as well as posts
Common complaints
- −A plugin file (bsdk_config.json) generates an abnormally high volume of server requests from visitors, raising security and performance concerns
- −Pro features are locked behind a recurring monthly subscription rather than a one-time payment, which users find unjustified×2
- −Style options come pre-populated with no easy way to clear or inherit site-wide styles, making per-block configuration tedious
- −Plugin speed/performance could be improved
- −WPML incompatibility: custom posts from all languages are rendered together without language filtering
Review trustMostly organic
- 4.13★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.20★
- 6%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
- past spikeReview timing — up to 40% of all reviews landed in a single month
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2023-11-172025-03-112026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 17 total
Latest reviews · 17 analyzed
- 2025-11-10★★★★★The best multi-post display plugin. Excellent CPT Support, Many Stylingsaksaksak
- 2025-01-28★★★★★Huge amounts of requests on bsdk_config.jsonalekmitch
- 2024-07-11★★★★★Advanced Post Blockplayitnow65
- 2024-06-29★★★★★Rip offdano1066
- 2023-11-02★★★★★Excellent Pluginsophibee
- 2023-04-10★★★★★It does what I need it to do very welleMBurr
- 2023-04-09★★★★★Great Job!Tori Chambers
- 2022-10-25★★★★★Really nice plugindimal
- 2022-06-27★★★★★Wonderful plugin, exceptional supporthusainghasra1-shot
- 2022-05-23★★★★★Styles?lastqa
Releases
recent versions from WordPress.org SVNFor developers & the curious
the raw signals behind the grade — none of this is on the friendly summary aboveDownload signals
Baselines are computed on organic days only — release spikes and their tails are excluded, so they're not inflated by the auto-update wave.
103
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
116
Prior 7-day baseline
99
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
2,964
Mean release-day peak (30d)
103
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
-11.2%
Week-over-week organic trend
Review signals
Concentration and drive-by metrics drive the review-burst and fake-review flags. 30–40% solo reviewers is normal; we only flag the extremes.
40%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
2.82
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
71%
5★ share in analyzed sample
6%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.18 → 4.13★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered