40
Social LikeBox & Feed
Display your Facebook feed and pray your website stays online.
DecliningPoor rating
40/100
Frequent site crashes and broken feeds make this plugin a major risk.
Active installs
~15,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 10k+
Rating
3.3★
47 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
-32%
Declining fast
61 → 41 installs/day
What to watch out for
- MAJORverified rating is 3.40★
- MINORdownloads down 32% vs a year ago
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
Declining fast · -32% in the last year
61/day a year ago→41/day today
Reviews
what people actually saySocial LikeBox & Feed is plagued by serious stability and functionality problems that often crash sites, though a few users report helpful support and a working feed when it does function.
What people like
- +Support staff can be responsive and resolve issues
- +When it works, the Facebook feed displays as intended
Common complaints
- −Plugin updates cause site crashes and HTTP 500 errors (since 2.5.0)×4
- −Pro (paid) version adds no functionality and often breaks the site×2
- −Feed does not display or work in common browsers (Chrome, Firefox)×2
- −Support is unresponsive or unhelpful in many cases×2
- −Security vulnerabilities leading to site infection
- −Feed is not mobile-responsive
- −User interface is confusing; shortcodes not generated
- −Compatibility issues with certain themes cause crashes
Review trustMostly organic
- 3.40★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 3.30★
- 9%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
2024-05-152025-06-092026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 47 total
Latest reviews · 47 analyzed
- 2024-05-10★★★★★Fixes problem with native Facebook website feedMaryMak
- 2023-06-02★★★★★Didn't work, and caused problems.josantodomingo
- 2022-10-21★★★★★Hacked pluginboricko
- 2022-07-12★★★★★Nothing Worksbostonshed
- 2022-02-08★★★★★Impossible to Figure Outekettler
- 2020-05-18★★★★★Does not work!Giorgia
- 2020-04-04★★★★★Hate itadabob
- 2019-12-02★★★★★Facebook widgetprairiesong
- 2019-08-05★★★★★Works perfectpamaat
- 2019-05-11★★★★★HIb1958
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.
41
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
41
Prior 7-day baseline
39
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
124
Mean release-day peak (30d)
39
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
0.0%
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
5.00
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
47%
5★ share in analyzed sample
9%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
3.34 → 3.40★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered