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Cryout Serious Theme Settings
The classic settings hero for Cryout themes with a side of support silence.
HealthyGrowing
74/100
This niche utility works well for its intended themes despite concerns about developer responsiveness.
Active installs
~45,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 40k+
Rating
4.3★
16 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
+23%
Growing
64 → 79 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 · +23% in the last year
64/day a year ago→79/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayCryout Serious Theme Settings is a well-regarded companion plugin for Cryout themes that reliably restores theme settings pages lost after WordPress introduced the Customizer, though concerns about developer support responsiveness and long-term compatibility upkeep are a notable caveat.
What people like
- +Effectively restores the theme settings page as intended, solving the core problem it was designed for×5
- +Quick and easy to install with minimal friction×3
- +Proven long-term reliability across multiple Cryout themes (Nirvana, Tempera, Parabola)×2
Common complaints
- −Support unresponsive for paying customers, with tickets and emails going unanswered, raising concerns about whether the developer is still active
- −WordPress compatibility not kept up to date, leaving users uncertain about using it on newer WP versions (since 4.6.3)
- −Does not work for at least some users even after installation, with no clear explanation
Review trustMostly organic
- 4.43★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.30★
- 13%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
- past spikeReview timing — up to 50% of all reviews landed in a single month
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2025-11-062026-03-062026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 16 total
Latest reviews · 16 analyzed
- 2026-03-13★★★★★Great and reliable over a long period of timeac1643
- 2025-10-12★★★★★No support for paying customerAlwaysEnthusiast
- 2020-02-11★★★★★Seems to work well.Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty
- 2017-03-07★★★★★Works straight out of the box…Tobbe-A
- 2017-03-01★★★★★Overdue for a WP compatibility checkschase561-shot
- 2016-11-18★★★★★Easy and awesome.loutreplume1-shot
- 2016-03-29★★★★★Works goodloft75
- 2016-01-06★★★★★Awesome job!!MetsuMorgoth
- 2016-01-04★★★★★Works fine, thank you!kazonline
- 2016-01-01★★★★★Works perfectly on our site.pawswebmaster
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.
84
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
65
Prior 7-day baseline
66
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
256
Mean release-day peak (30d)
74
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
+29.2%
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.
50%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
1.73
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
81%
5★ share in analyzed sample
13%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.25 → 4.43★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered