82
BlockSpare – Gutenberg Post Grid Blocks for News, Magazine & Blog Websites
Endless layout options that users seem to enjoy without saying much.
HealthyGrowing
82/100
The plugin offers many templates but the small number of thin reviews makes it hard to judge real quality.
Active installs
~29,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 10k+
Rating
4.9★
31 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
+59%
Growing fast
390 → 622 installs/day
What to watch out for
- MINORreviews unevenly distributed over time
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 · +59% in the last year
390/day a year ago→622/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayReview trustReviews look organic
- 4.93★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.90★
- 13%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2023-07-202025-01-102026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 31 total
Latest reviews · 31 analyzed
- 2026-05-25★★★★★goodindiafirst
- 2026-04-27★★★★★It is very easy and greatmamunphf
- 2025-06-25★★★★★Good piece of software anyday!datemeprince
- 2025-05-30★★★★★GREAT!!!!!nealmann
- 2025-01-21★★★★★Ótimo designnovoportal
- 2024-10-21★★★★★still trying to figure it all outraoulbtc
- 2024-09-17★★★★★Great Plugin 👍YodaSec Expose
- 2024-05-28★★★★★4,6shakuly
- 2024-02-26★★★★★классgasan19851-shot
- 2024-02-23★★★★★Very nice and usefull pluginrvl180
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.
675
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
617
Prior 7-day baseline
747
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
4,271
Mean release-day peak (30d)
933
Latest day · 2026-06-03(tail)
+9.4%
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.
18%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
1.54
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
94%
5★ share in analyzed sample
13%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.94 → 4.93★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered