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Easy Social Icons
Easy to set up but stuck in a Font Awesome time warp.
HealthyGrowing
74/100
The plugin is easy to use but suffers from outdated libraries and recent updates that break site rendering.
Active installs
~25,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 20k+
Rating
4.4★
84 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
+3109%
Growing fast
72 → 2,311 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 · +3109% in the last year
72/day a year ago→2,311/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayEasy Social Icons is generally well-regarded as a lightweight, easy-to-use plugin for displaying social media icons, but recent updates have introduced breakage and the plugin's underlying icon library (Font Awesome) has gone years without an update, leaving it noticeably behind.
What people like
- +Easy to set up and use, with a straightforward admin interface×7
- +Allows uploading custom icon images without requiring a paid upgrade×2
- +Flexible placement via shortcode, PHP code, or widget×2
- +Lightweight with minimal performance impact
- +Developer-friendly with easy PHP customization
Common complaints
- −Recent updates broke content rendering and icon display settings on multiple sites×2
- −Font Awesome library is severely outdated (last updated to v5.7.2, over 5 years behind current v6.6.0), causing missing icons such as the X/Twitter rebrand logo×2
- −Plugin's Font Awesome load conflicts with manually used Font Awesome icons elsewhere on the site
- −Icon title field strips capitalization and special characters, requiring a direct database edit to fix
- −Bar background color cannot be changed from the admin panel and requires custom CSS
- −Plugin adds a redundant Font Awesome download, requiring a separate plugin to suppress
Review trustMostly organic
- 4.36★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.40★
- 7%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
- past spikeReview timing — up to 29% of all reviews landed in a single month
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2023-10-182025-02-092026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 84 total
Latest reviews · 84 analyzed
- 2025-06-30★★★★★Used to be great – not any morebookswarm
- 2025-06-30★★★★★Recent Update Has Broken My Sitesgetbsm
- 2025-04-19★★★★★Easy to use, no hassle or problemsvefarinn1259
- 2024-10-10★★★★★Out of date plugintristanwmartin1-shot
- 2024-03-26★★★★★Easy to usePeg O'Hagan
- 2024-03-12★★★★★very goodzamaan
- 2023-10-09★★★★★Bug Report: Cannot Add a New IconOzgur
- 2023-02-27★★★★★Fantastic PluginTheFryingPan
- 2022-10-19★★★★★Problem About Titletatoline
- 2022-03-29★★★★★Really Pleased!jenwebb
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.
2,254
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
2,318
Prior 7-day baseline
2,087
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
2,295
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
-2.8%
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.
29%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
2.25
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
75%
5★ share in analyzed sample
7%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.37 → 4.36★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered