86
Disable Blog
Pure relief for users who want a website without the blog.
HealthyGrowing
86/100
It reliably turns WordPress into a site without a blog. Some users report issues when trying to uninstall the plugin.
Active installs
~25,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 20k+
Rating
4.7★
14 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
+176%
Growing fast
35 → 97 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 · +176% in the last year
35/day a year ago→97/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayDisable Blog is a well-regarded, lightweight plugin that reliably removes WordPress blog functionality, though a notable complaint exists around a failure to cleanly uninstall when the plugin is no longer needed.
What people like
- +Does its core job reliably — disables WordPress blog features simply and effectively×6
- +Lightweight and unobtrusive×2
- +Good support responsiveness noted
Common complaints
- −Plugin failed to delete cleanly on uninstall, hanging and returning an uninformative 'Deletion failed' error
- −Removes the RSS widget as a side effect, which at least one user did not want
- −Does not block posts from being submitted via external tools (e.g. third-party clients), leaving a potential gap for unwanted content
Review trustMostly organic
- 4.71★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.70★
- 0%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
- past spikeReview timing — up to 100% of all reviews landed in a single month
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2024-01-162025-04-102026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 14 total
Latest reviews · 14 analyzed
- 2023-12-30★★★★★Works great!EAC2015
- 2023-04-03★★★★★useful sometimesalienative
- 2023-03-27★★★★★Has Issuesbaruch60610
- 2021-11-23★★★★★five starsBeck
- 2021-11-23★★★★★Simply worksaqdrk
- 2021-04-17★★★★★Top! Thank You. Super PluginMatthias Honert
- 2020-06-20★★★★★Thanks, very useful pluginReddyRed
- 2019-01-06★★★★★PerfectTiger
- 2017-12-22★★★★★Does the jobfoggy67
- 2017-11-22★★★★★Fast and simpleviewup
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.
109
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
76
Prior 7-day baseline
55
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
159
Mean release-day peak (30d)
128
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
+43.4%
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.
100%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
5.39
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
86%
5★ share in analyzed sample
0%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.71 → 4.71★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered