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Page Builder Gutenberg Blocks – CoBlocks
Beautiful blocks that feel like a ghost town lately.
Declining
64/100
The blocks are visually appealing but the lack of maintenance is a major concern.
Active installs
~350,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 300k+
Rating
4.3★
108 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
-31%
Declining fast
7,976 → 5,484 installs/day
What to watch out for
- MINORreviews unevenly distributed over time
- MINORdownloads down 31% 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 · -31% in the last year
7,976/day a year ago→5,484/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayCoBlocks is a well-liked Gutenberg block plugin praised for its simplicity and clean design, but it is increasingly undermined by stalled development, absent support, and recurring technical issues that go unaddressed.
What people like
- +Simple, focused feature set without unnecessary bloat×3
- +Easy to use with a good visual editing experience×4
- +Blocks are visually appealing and broadly theme-compatible×2
- +Genuinely free without upsells or freemium restrictions
Common complaints
- −Plugin appears abandoned — no meaningful updates for many months and little to no support activity×3
- −Support is unresponsive or entirely absent when issues arise×4
- −Automatically loads Google Fonts from fonts.googleapis.com, raising GDPR/DSGVO compliance concerns
- −Updates have broken sites, including loss of admin menu access (since 3.0.1)×2
- −Blocks are not properly mobile-responsive
- −Conflict with Reseller Store plugin causes PHP array key errors on the front end
- −GoDaddy hosting sync with staging causes the 'Discourage search engines' checkbox to be auto-selected, harming SEO
Review trustReviews look organic
- 4.18★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.30★
- 6%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2023-08-192025-01-102026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 108 total
Latest reviews · 90 analyzed
- 2026-06-01★★★★★No support responsewigglypoppins
- 2026-01-19★★★★★Violates GDPR, no updates since 8 monthswolfgangsch
- 2025-12-30★★★★★Simple and effectivearea9
- 2025-10-19★★★★★Great toolsjjnash
- 2025-04-24★★★★★Good plugin!Nikola Kob
- 2025-04-11★★★★★Blocks SEOApril
- 2025-04-04★★★★★Seriously?blueoaks
- 2024-11-08★★★★★I love this one!Dave Brown
- 2024-10-14★★★★★Carousel Gallery BlockNEW EUROPA
- 2024-01-26★★★★★Easy to Use!dsitechmktg
Releases
recent versions from WordPress.org SVNAlternatives to Page Builder Gutenberg Blocks
Top Builders plugins, ranked by score.For 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.
5,089
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
5,480
Prior 7-day baseline
4,880
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
6,013
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
-7.1%
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
1.70
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
72%
5★ share in analyzed sample
6%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.18 → 4.18★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered