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Fuse Social Floating Sidebar
Stylish social links that come with a side of missing license codes.
Declining
52/100
Core functionality is solid but the purchase process and support are highly unreliable.
Active installs
~15,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 10k+
Rating
4.6★
58 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
-34%
Declining fast
50 → 33 installs/day
What to watch out for
- MINORdownloads down 34% vs a year ago
- MINORnot updated in 11 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
Declining fast · -34% in the last year
50/day a year ago→33/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayFuse Social Floating Sidebar is generally praised for working well and being easy to use, but users frequently report poor support and delivery issues.
What people like
- +Core functionality works reliably and fulfills its purpose×8
- +Easy to add social links with flexible styling options×3
- +Support responses are quick and helpful when they occur×3
Common complaints
- −License email or activation code not received after purchase×2
- −Support is unresponsive or absent×3
- −Plugin breaks Font Awesome icon preview in Avada live editor
- −Loads icons from external resources, raising GDPR compliance concerns
- −Adds inline CSS instead of a separate file, affecting page load optimization and SEO
- −PRO version file size is large, requiring increased upload capacity
- −Contact details are confusing for users
- −Undefined index notice and lack of URL validation for custom links
Review trustMostly organic
- 4.64★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.60★
- 14%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
- past spikeReview timing — up to 50% of all reviews landed in a single month
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2024-01-162025-04-102026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 58 total
Latest reviews · 58 analyzed
- 2024-07-25★★★★★Non existent supportbeeblebr0x1-shot
- 2024-01-15★★★★★I pay for an upgrade but never received the product, code, or downloadluisbeyra
- 2023-02-20★★★★★Plugin breaks Font Awesome Icons preview in Avada Livekunstwirt
- 2021-10-04★★★★★No support, wrong codesnecz
- 2021-05-20★★★★★Not 100% GDPR compliantKnallBlauMedia
- 2021-02-23★★★★★Nice & Tidycormacsans
- 2020-11-11★★★★★Plugin and support both are goodans11
- 2020-09-13★★★★★Unfortunately a one star review.da_PSI
- 2020-08-28★★★★★Simple, useful and flexible pluginandydog66
- 2020-05-31★★★★★Curated plugingeokongr
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.
32
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
29
Prior 7-day baseline
24
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
24
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
+10.3%
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.
50%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
3.74
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
85%
5★ share in analyzed sample
14%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.59 → 4.64★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered