Grade B

Boxzilla – WordPress Popup Builder

Name: Boxzilla – WordPress Popup Builder
Rating: 4.9 (131 reviews)
Author: Danny van Kooten

⤓ Download v3.4.10 on WordPress.org ↗

by Danny van Kootenupdated 2026-06-01🌿The Dependable Sort

Relief at last for anyone tired of heavy popup builders.

HealthyGrowing

91/100

Users enjoy this lightweight tool for its simplicity and reliable performance without unnecessary bloat.

Loved33/40

Trustworthy14/15

Fair & Honest15/15

Maintained18/18

Momentum11/12

Active installs

~24,000

our estimate · wp.org shows 20k+

→ on track for 30k+in ~10 months

Rating

4.8★

131 ratings

Trend · vs a year ago

+31%

Growing fast

126 → 165 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 trend

2025-04-302025-08-082025-11-162026-02-232026-06-03

organicrelease spikerelease tailorganic trend · 14d rolling median

Growing fast · +31% in the last year

126/day a year ago→165/day today

Reviews

what people actually say

Boxzilla is a well-regarded, lightweight popup builder for WordPress that users consistently praise for its simplicity and reliability, with no significant recurring complaints surfaced in available reviews.

What people like

+Easy to set up and use, with a minimal learning curve×6
+Reliable and works as advertised without issues×5
+Lean design — does what it needs to without unnecessary bloat×3
+Free version is functional and sufficient for most use cases×2
+Each popup is a custom post type, making them easy to manage
+Support is responsive and helpful

Common complaints

−No native block editor (Gutenberg) support for editing popups

Review trustReviews look organic

4.91★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.80★
4%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members

Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower

2023-09-182025-02-092026-06-04

5★ reviews1–4★ reviews

All-time ratings · 131 total

5★

121

4★

3★

2★

1★

Latest reviews · 90 analyzed

2026-03-13★★★★★Perfect & Easy setup Wael Rashed
2026-01-10★★★★★Fantastico plugin!!chimica
2025-10-29★★★★★This is what a WP plugin should be like PieterCM
2025-10-09★★★★★Easy to Implement iamjwal
2025-04-10★★★★★Great Plugin works well Richard Munter
2025-01-13★★★★★Love it, works great, easy to style Jasper MMM
2024-10-31★★★★★It does exactly what it says danielepais
2024-10-20★★★★★Very useful nice plugin!peopleinside
2024-06-27★★★★★Easy to use twirpcommunications
2024-05-24★★★★★Great plugin caymannews1-shot

Releases

recent versions from WordPress.org SVN

2026-06-01v3.4.10
2026-05-20v3.4.9
2026-05-17v3.4.8
2026-03-09v3.4.7
2026-02-10v3.4.6
2025-11-28v3.4.5
2025-08-07v3.4.4
2025-06-24v3.4.3

For developers & the curious

the raw signals behind the grade — none of this is on the friendly summary above

Download 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.

177

Baseline · median of last 7 organic days

201

Prior 7-day baseline

299

Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days

3,943

Mean release-day peak (30d)

687

Latest day · 2026-06-03(spike)

-11.9%

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.

15%

Max month share · biggest single 30-day window

1.56

Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty

94%

5★ share in analyzed sample

Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity

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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo

4.91 → 4.91★

Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered