75
Download Plugin
A handy migration tool that occasionally turns your dashboard into a billboard.
HealthyGrowing
75/100
The plugin offers useful migration tools but recent updates introduced annoying ads and dashboard clutter.
Active installs
~55,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 50k+
Rating
4.4★
23 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
+36%
Growing fast
483 → 657 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 · +36% in the last year
483/day a year ago→657/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayDownload Plugin is a well-liked utility for quickly grabbing and moving plugins between WordPress installations, but it has drawn repeated criticism for intrusive admin UI choices and at least one version introducing unwanted bloat and in-dashboard advertising.
What people like
- +Core functionality works well for downloading and transferring plugins between sites×5
- +Useful for Dev-to-Production workflows, allowing plugins to be saved locally and re-uploaded×2
- +Plugin author has shown responsiveness to community feedback, addressing complaints about the admin notice and menu item
Common complaints
- −Non-dismissible admin notice displayed on every page, described as extremely annoying (later fixed per one updated review)×2
- −Unnecessary top-level admin menu item added just to display documentation, cluttering the dashboard (later removed per one updated review)×2
- −Version 1.5.1 added unwanted UI changes (plugin thumbnails, reduced items per screen) that break page styling and shift elements behind the dashboard menu (since 1.5.1)
- −In-dashboard advertising for unrelated plugins added in a recent update (since 1.5.1)
- −Plugin modifies PHP post_max_size and upload_max_size to 640MB, posing potential server memory and security risks
- −Downloaded plugins can be corrupt or invalid, causing WordPress to throw a 'Plugin file does not exist' error on reinstall
- −Theme downloads are broken — theme files are not placed inside a proper theme folder in the downloaded zip
Review trustReviews look organic
- 4.55★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.40★
- 13%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2024-03-162025-05-102026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 23 total
Latest reviews · 23 analyzed
- 2026-05-05★★★★★Useful plugin to take quick backup.ssaurabhsaini1-shot
- 2026-03-06★★★★★Nice – multiple download and upload pluginsindrayn
- 2025-03-25★★★★★Great Plugin and ideaJosh Journey
- 2024-08-09★★★★★I Love Itdisco2000
- 2024-07-09★★★★★Almost perfect, one suggestionMisophoniq
- 2024-03-01★★★★★Excellent!Jihad Sinnaour
- 2023-03-13★★★★★Elequent. Direct. Works GreatSSVapes
- 2022-11-28★★★★★Its worksMarcos Nakamine
- 2022-05-12★★★★★Annoying pluginpettif
- 2022-05-12★★★★★Great plugin with annoying downsidesDavid Vongries
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.
664
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
669
Prior 7-day baseline
436
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
2,638
Mean release-day peak (30d)
724
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
-0.7%
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
1.91
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
83%
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
4.43 → 4.55★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered