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Favicon by RealFaviconGenerator
Tiny icons for every screen in your user's pocket.
HealthyDeclining
82/100
The plugin provides excellent icon sets for many devices despite occasional technical upload errors.
Active installs
~250,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 200k+
Rating
4.9★
801 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
-24%
Declining
1,081 → 827 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
Declining · -24% in the last year
1,081/day a year ago→827/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayFavicon by RealFaviconGenerator is well-regarded as a simple, free favicon tool for WordPress, but a recurring caveat is that some users hit technical errors that prevent the plugin from working at all.
What people like
- +Easy and quick to set up×5
- +Generates high-quality favicons with real-time previews across browsers and apps×2
- +Free to use
- +Does exactly what it promises with no fuss×3
Common complaints
- −cURL/proxy errors (HTTP 403) can completely block favicon upload
- −Uploaded favicon does not update when a new one is submitted — the original persists
Review trustReviews look organic
- 4.83★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.90★
- 14%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 · 801 total
Latest reviews · 90 analyzed
- 2026-04-25★★★★★A great plugin even for non-IT specialistsjirixdolezal
- 2026-04-06★★★★★Macr – faviconmazeev1-shot
- 2025-12-24★★★★★Perfect, easy and quickVIDEGRAIN
- 2025-11-20★★★★★No funcionaVictorJSanz1-shot
- 2025-11-08★★★★★It was very good.kazuo210
- 2025-11-07★★★★★Spot on!ixian
- 2025-10-06★★★★★Perfect, quick and super efficient!ausilia88
- 2025-09-22★★★★★very goodrandaccioa
- 2025-09-15★★★★★Excellent pluginTFMEDIA™
- 2025-09-14★★★★★Makes things quicker and easierkurtkevin
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.
1,734
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
769
Prior 7-day baseline
1,319
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
23,230
Mean release-day peak (30d)
2,573
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
+125.5%
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.
7%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
0.81
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
94%
5★ share in analyzed sample
14%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
-67%
Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.81 → 4.83★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered