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Interactive Content – H5P
Brilliant interactive tools that are a nightmare to style.
HealthyGrowing
91/100
Educators love the vast interactive variety despite difficult styling and recent stability issues.
Active installs
~45,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 40k+
Rating
4.8★
61 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
+174%
Growing fast
148 → 405 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 · +174% in the last year
148/day a year ago→405/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayH5P is a well-loved interactive content plugin among educators, praised for its breadth of content types and free availability, but it carries real caveats around styling inflexibility, bugs in non-English contexts, and a quality dip introduced by recent updates.
What people like
- +Wide variety of interactive content types (quizzes, drag-and-drop, branching scenarios, fill-in-the-blank, matching, etc.) suited to education and LMS use×6
- +Free to use, which educators find exceptional given the feature depth×3
- +Long-term reliability reported by educators with no bugs over extended use×2
- +Handles advanced interactivity needs (e.g. hotspot labeling, branching scenarios) that other plugins do not cover×2
Common complaints
- −Styling and appearance customization is extremely difficult or effectively impossible for non-developers; basic options like font size, color, and family are not exposed×2
- −Plugin quality dropped noticeably after the 1.17.x updates, with unstable releases introducing new problems (since 1.17)
- −Bugs and layout/usability issues across various content types require a PHP or CSS developer to resolve, making the plugin inaccessible for teams without technical resources
- −Poor usability for inexperienced users, children, and users with disabilities, particularly on mobile/smartphone
- −Content fails to load in some situations
- −A specific feature (hiding the embed code) does not work correctly
- −Support is slow or insufficient
Review trustMostly organic
- 4.79★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.80★
- 15%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
- past spikeReview timing — up to 40% of all reviews landed in a single month
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2023-08-192025-01-102026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 61 total
Latest reviews · 61 analyzed
- 2026-03-30★★★★★Одинаковый контент на разных страницахtester2014
- 2026-03-13★★★★★Poor code since 1.17.xEvOs
- 2024-02-26★★★★★Best plugin evertiarita
- 2023-12-08★★★★★A blessing for anyone working on Education!Henrique Vianna
- 2023-07-25★★★★★Great!karlster1-shot
- 2023-02-01★★★★★Doesn't work without activating embed codemaster44tr
- 2022-04-12★★★★★Nothing beats H5Pmeestergijs
- 2022-01-16★★★★★simply great.mustafayigit
- 2021-11-01★★★★★Free and sufficientseydiemrah
- 2021-06-30★★★★★Fantastic Pluginronemjay
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.
476
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
348
Prior 7-day baseline
511
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
4,921
Mean release-day peak (30d)
476
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
+36.8%
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.
40%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
2.97
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
90%
5★ share in analyzed sample
15%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.75 → 4.79★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered