33
Divi Carousel Lite – 17+ Carousel Module
Sliding into broken dashboards and empty promises.
DecliningPoor rating
33/100
Hollow reviews mask serious bugs and broken admin functionality.
Active installs
~15,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 10k+
Rating
3.9★
19 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
-61%
Declining fast
46 → 18 installs/day
Warnings
- 53% of reviewers have no other wp.org activity — pattern often associated with paid or solicited 5★.
What to watch out for
- MAJORverified rating is 2.78★
- MINORreviews unevenly distributed over time
- MINORdownloads down 61% vs a year ago
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
Declining fast · -61% in the last year
46/day a year ago→18/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayDivi Carousel Lite is widely criticized for broken admin functionality, poor documentation, numerous bugs, and unresponsive support, with users also reporting unmet refund promises for the PRO version.
What people like
Common complaints
- −Documentation is inadequate and confusing
- −Plugin breaks the WordPress admin dashboard×2
- −Contains many bugs
- −Customer support is unresponsive×2
- −PRO version guarantees, such as refunds, are not honored
Review trustMixed — some inflation
- 2.78★Verified rating — drops from 3.90★ once one-shot reviewers are removed
- 53%One-shot reviewers — their only wp.org activity is this review — pattern linked to solicited 5★
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2023-11-172025-03-112026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 19 total
Latest reviews · 19 analyzed
- 2025-07-26★★★★★Excellent for Divijakaup1-shot
- 2025-07-18★★★★★Excellent Free Divi PluginSakran1-shot
- 2025-03-29★★★★★Nice Slider for Coffeshopcoffeeshop11001-shot
- 2025-03-13★★★★★Content Carouselbrewista1-shot
- 2025-03-09★★★★★Happy with supportwebuxdesign1-shot
- 2024-09-24★★★★★Simple and easy to useannie941-shot
- 2024-09-13★★★★★Logo carouselnabila60121-shot
- 2024-09-03★★★★★Simple and Clean Slideremil221-shot
- 2024-08-19★★★★★Divi Imgae Carouselarhan0011-shot
- 2024-04-09★★★★★Poor documentationcopperbeech
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.
17
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
18
Prior 7-day baseline
14
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
15
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
-5.6%
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.
14%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
1.71
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
74%
5★ share in analyzed sample
53%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
3.95 → 2.78★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered