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Buttonizer – Floating Menus, Sticky Buttons, & Popup Builder
Stylish floating buttons that now require a cloud account.
HealthyGrowing
69/100
Great styling and features are overshadowed by the shift to a cloud model and restrictive paid limits.
Active installs
~75,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 70k+
Rating
4.4★
149 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
+51%
Growing fast
207 → 313 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 · +51% in the last year
207/day a year ago→313/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayButtonizer is generally well-regarded for its styling, UI, and feature set, but faces notable criticism over its shift away from standalone/self-hosted operation toward a cloud-hosted platform model, as well as restrictive pageview limits on paid plans.
What people like
- +Praised for strong styling, UI quality, and breadth of customization features×3
- +Support team described as responsive and helpful, including for theme conflict resolution×2
- +Free version considered useful and functional
Common complaints
- −Plugin now requires users to create an account on an external hosted platform, removing the self-hosted/standalone option
- −Shift to cloud-hosted model raises security and data privacy concerns, particularly for EU users who don't know where data is stored
- −Pageview limits on paid plans considered too restrictive, especially for sites running ad campaigns with growing traffic×2
Review trustReviews look organic
- 4.28★Verified rating — drops from 4.40★ once one-shot reviewers are removed
- 21%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 · 149 total
Latest reviews · 90 analyzed
- 2026-05-12★★★★★Restrictive pageviews limitsintercloud
- 2026-05-05★★★★★Extremely Satisfied with the Popupnomadandinlove
- 2026-04-20★★★★★Dropped support for WordPressrudybrinkman
- 2026-03-05★★★★★Very completefusterlopez
- 2026-01-20★★★★★Great tool!yv360
- 2026-01-12★★★★★Excellentmichaelbcn1-shot
- 2025-12-17★★★★★LOVE LOVE LOVE BUTTONIZER AND FORMILLA!angelahart
- 2025-10-31★★★★★Exceptional Tool with Even Better Supportaminaworks1-shot
- 2025-10-13★★★★★Immediately started receiving more inquiriesMyMediTour.com
- 2025-09-09★★★★★Very Happyjmillbrand
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.
306
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
304
Prior 7-day baseline
235
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
1,655
Mean release-day peak (30d)
293
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
+0.7%
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.
10%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
0.93
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
79%
5★ share in analyzed sample
21%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
+133%
Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.43 → 4.28★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered