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Cyrlitera – Transliteration of Links and File Names
Clean Cyrillic links come with a side of broken WooCommerce features.
HealthyGrowing
54/100
The plugin breaks WooCommerce functionality and injects unskippable advertisements into the admin interface.
Active installs
~45,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 40k+
Rating
4.5★
54 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
+25%
Growing fast
55 → 69 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 · +25% in the last year
55/day a year ago→69/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayCyrlitera is a Cyrillic transliteration plugin with a poor reputation among users, marred by serious breakage of WooCommerce attributes, an unresolved security vulnerability, intrusive ads injected into the admin panel, and effectively absent support.
What people like
- +Considered easy to use in basic transliteration scenarios
Common complaints
- −Breaks WooCommerce product attributes and filter values upon activation×3
- −Unresolved Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) security vulnerability; plugin considered abandoned (since 1.2.0)×2
- −Injects an advertisement tab into the WooCommerce product editing admin panel with no way to dismiss it×2
- −Login page protection feature does not work correctly — validation errors on valid input and the new login URL remains discoverable×2
- −Breaks email notifications and user registration on existing sites
- −No documentation and support claims are not backed up in practice
Review trustReviews look organic
- 4.33★Verified rating — drops from 4.50★ once one-shot reviewers are removed
- 26%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2025-02-092025-10-072026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 54 total
Latest reviews · 54 analyzed
- 2026-05-30★★★★★Beware of ADsneevalex
- 2026-04-23★★★★★Great work, simple and effective pluginreacty1-shot
- 2026-02-12★★★★★Pushes his advertisinguxtora
- 2025-07-31★★★★★Abandonware.nspirov
- 2025-07-07★★★★★Why?svetliomitev
- 2025-01-21★★★★★Damn youmoonzlo
- 2022-07-20★★★★★Great work, simple and effective pluginpps88
- 2022-06-05★★★★★Simply does not workmrtransplant
- 2021-04-27★★★★★Отлично!chertezhizakazhi
- 2021-03-20★★★★★Don't use for woocommerceselgive1
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.
94
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
65
Prior 7-day baseline
165
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
3,284
Mean release-day peak (30d)
166
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
+44.6%
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.
17%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
1.35
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
85%
5★ share in analyzed sample
26%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.50 → 4.33★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered