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WP Custom Login
Branded login pages are easy to build but maintenance might bite.
HealthyGrowing
80/100
The plugin offers impressive customization for free. A small review base makes long term stability hard to verify.
Active installs
~15,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 10k+
Rating
4.8★
14 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
+77%
Growing fast
22 → 39 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 · +77% in the last year
22/day a year ago→39/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayWP Custom Login is praised for its simplicity and strong customization options, though at least one user reports troublesome update maintenance.
What people like
- +Simple and easy to use×2
- +Extensive customization (logo, font, button, CSS, templates, pixel-perfect alignment)×4
- +Can add a support contact line to the dashboard
- +Long-term reliability; used across many sites for years
- +Works when other similar plugins fail
Common complaints
- −Frequent update problems that require significant effort to maintain
Review trustReviews look organic
- 4.77★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.80★
- 7%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
Not enough review history.
All-time ratings · 14 total
Latest reviews · 14 analyzed
- 2020-10-31★★★★★goldilocksStoob
- 2016-10-09★★★★★Really like this pluginpixeldrummer
- 2016-08-14★★★★★Simply CoolAkawey
- 2016-05-27★★★★★supb, excellentHimanshu
- 2016-04-04★★★★★Works 4 menetgoblin
- 2014-05-05★★★★★It just worksBaP4yH
- 2014-04-12★★★★★I like this plug-inYAT
- 2014-03-15★★★★★works greatMuneera_Salah
- 2013-11-26★★★★★Much More ProfessionalUnknownTitle32
- 2013-06-12★★★★★Works, but could be much betterslurm23
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.
37
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
38
Prior 7-day baseline
29
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
126
Mean release-day peak (30d)
45
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
-2.6%
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.
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Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
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Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
93%
5★ share in analyzed sample
7%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.79 → 4.77★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered