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CSS & JavaScript Toolbox
A functional snippet tool that feels a bit more restricted lately.
HealthyGrowing
62/100
Users appreciate the functionality but feel frustrated by the unintuitive interface and recent feature removals.
Active installs
~15,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 10k+
Rating
4.7★
85 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
+35%
Growing fast
26 → 35 installs/day
What to watch out for
- MINORnot updated in 7 months
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 · +35% in the last year
26/day a year ago→35/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayCSS & JavaScript Toolbox is regarded as a fast, functional and highly customizable plugin with an easy GUI, but users criticize its unintuitive UI, feature removal in the free version, database bloat, and lack of BuddyPress support.
What people like
- +Easy-to-use GUI
- +Fast and stable performance
- +High customization and flexibility×2
- +Works for average needs
- +Functional (does work)
Common complaints
- −Removed features in free version
- −Unintuitive, non-WordPress UI
- −Creates many database tables (17)
- −Bloated for its intended functionality
- −Does not affect BuddyPress pages
Review trustReviews look organic
- 4.66★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.70★
- 18%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
Not enough review history.
All-time ratings · 85 total
Latest reviews · 87 analyzed
- 2022-05-24★★★★★Great additional components for Elementorjoshuarg0071-shot
- 2021-12-14★★★★★Thank youads
- 2021-12-04★★★★★Good plugin, it used to be much better before the nerfing, thocablop
- 2020-08-03★★★★★Did exactly what I neededJayden Lawson
- 2019-07-14★★★★★Version 9 is a step in the right directionRené Oberwald
- 2018-09-01★★★★★Worst UI/UX imaginablelexopa
- 2018-06-19★★★★★Superbnadeemdigicots
- 2018-06-19★★★★★Wonderful Plugin!imanubhatt1-shot
- 2018-04-23★★★★★Overall an Amazing Pluginisabellajohnson1-shot
- 2018-04-23★★★★★best plugin for css/jsadhishpunj1-shot
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.
29
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
33
Prior 7-day baseline
26
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
24
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
-12.1%
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.
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Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
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Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
90%
5★ share in analyzed sample
18%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.72 → 4.66★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered