88
Ditty – Responsive News Tickers, Sliders, and Lists
Powerful displays that require a map to find the settings.
HealthyGrowing
88/100
Excellent support and rich features balance out a confusing new user interface.
Active installs
~120,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 30k+
Rating
4.6★
106 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
+30%
Growing fast
166 → 216 installs/day
What to watch out for
- MINORreviews unevenly distributed over time
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 · +30% in the last year
166/day a year ago→216/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayDitty is a well-regarded news ticker and content display plugin with a strong reputation for responsive, competent developer support, though a major update significantly worsened the UI's usability and some users find basic customization options difficult to locate.
What people like
- +Developer support is consistently praised as fast, personal, and effective — including going above and beyond to fix server-level issues×9
- +Plugin works reliably for its core purpose with no reported bugs or conflicts for long-term users×3
- +Developer is responsive to feature requests and pushes updates quickly when changes are requested
- +Free version is considered feature-rich, covering use cases well beyond a basic ticker
Common complaints
- −A major update made the UI significantly more complex and harder to navigate, with settings buried across multiple menus and submenus×2
- −Basic styling options (e.g. ticker font size) are difficult or impossible to find, frustrating users who expect simple controls
- −Shortcode and PHP embed methods did not work for at least one user, with no clear resolution
- −Updates are infrequent, which raises concerns for some users about long-term maintenance
Review trustReviews look organic
- 4.56★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.60★
- 6%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2023-07-202025-01-102026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 106 total
Latest reviews · 90 analyzed
- 2026-01-11★★★★★Fantastic news ticker pluginEdvard Larsson
- 2025-06-17★★★★★Super fast and efficient!malcantarag
- 2025-06-03★★★★★WOW – Best support experience so fardataworxulm
- 2025-01-13★★★★★Great plugin !CJW
- 2024-05-26★★★★★Sehr Zufrieden!koerscht1-shot
- 2024-03-02★★★★★Ditty Posts Styling Helpraffetali
- 2024-03-01★★★★★Quality Pluginhalleck
- 2024-02-29★★★★★Great plugin with great supportISeeTWizard
- 2024-01-25★★★★★Ditty News Tinkereperatopoulos
- 2023-12-22★★★★★Awesome Plugintroyw2015
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.
251
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
203
Prior 7-day baseline
405
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
11,574
Mean release-day peak (30d)
335
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
+23.6%
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.
19%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
1.63
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
86%
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
4.59 → 4.56★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered