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Blocksy Companion
The sleek sidekick that makes your Blocksy theme truly shine.
HealthyGrowing
89/100
This lightweight companion provides excellent customization and support despite many unverified recent reviews.
Active installs
~412,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 300k+
Rating
4.7★
93 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
+46%
Growing fast
2,527 → 3,678 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 · +46% in the last year
2,527/day a year ago→3,678/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayBlocksy Companion is well-regarded as a polished, lightweight companion plugin for the Blocksy theme, praised for its performance and support quality, with no significant recurring complaints surfacing in current reviews.
What people like
- +Lightweight and does not slow down the site, contributing to strong performance scores×3
- +Powerful customization options including custom headers, footers, conditional sidebars, and WooCommerce enhancements×4
- +Support team is praised as fast, knowledgeable, and genuinely helpful×3
- +Intuitive and well-organized interface, accessible to both developers and beginners×3
- +Pro version seen as adding meaningful value beyond the already capable free version×2
Common complaints
- −Starter site templates are not available for Elementor, only for the native builder
Review trustReviews look organic
- 4.69★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.70★
- 20%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2023-11-172025-03-112026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 93 total
Latest reviews · 90 analyzed
- 2026-02-12★★★★★The Ultimate Theme for Performance and Flexibilitypolatonik
- 2025-10-24★★★★★Really solid plugincuspaw
- 2025-09-26★★★★★It's Fast!JayFoster
- 2025-09-22★★★★★Amazing Companion for My WebsiteThamer Al.Harbi
- 2025-09-22★★★★★Nice themeraimond11-shot
- 2025-09-01★★★★★Good plugin for perfect themejj34ls
- 2025-08-11★★★★★Very satisfied for yearspeternol1-shot
- 2025-07-09★★★★★Blocksy Perfect for my sitertorum
- 2025-05-27★★★★★Review of Blocksy Companion Proartlemon
- 2025-04-28★★★★★Best theme for many projectschip sheppard
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.
3,272
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
4,928
Prior 7-day baseline
3,280
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
47,668
Mean release-day peak (30d)
4,631
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
-33.6%
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.
17%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
1.13
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
91%
5★ share in analyzed sample
20%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
-86%
Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.72 → 4.69★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered