Grade D

The Icon Block

Name: The Icon Block
Rating: 5.0 (29 reviews)
Author: Nick Diego

⤓ Download v2.0.0 on WordPress.org ↗

by Nick Diegoupdated 2026-01-18⚠️The Handle-With-Care

The tiny icon specialist that Gutenberg forgot to include.

Growing

70/100

This lightweight block fills a specific Gutenberg gap without any feature bloat.

Loved30/40

Trustworthy10/15

Fair & Honest15/15

Maintained15/18

Momentum9/12

Composite 79, adjusted to 70 (×0.88) for a low verified rating or signs of review manipulation.

Active installs

~35,000

our estimate · wp.org shows 30k+

→ on track for 40k+in ~1 year

Rating

5.0★

29 ratings

Trend · vs a year ago

+13%

Growing

204 → 232 installs/day

What to watch out for

MINORreviews unevenly distributed over time
MAJORnear-100% 5★ in bursty pattern

Downloads over time

real new installs per day · release spikes shown separately from the trend

2025-04-302025-08-082025-11-162026-02-232026-06-03

organicrelease spikerelease tailorganic trend · 14d rolling median

Growing · +13% in the last year

204/day a year ago→232/day today

Reviews

what people actually say

The Icon Block is a well-regarded, lightweight Gutenberg block plugin that users appreciate for its simplicity and clean implementation, with no notable complaints surfacing across reviews.

What people like

+Easy to use and intuitive interface×5
+Does exactly what it promises — no feature bloat×4
+Clean, lightweight code with no ads or performance issues×3
+Supports adding custom icons with good flexibility×2
+Fills a genuine gap in the Gutenberg/block editor experience×2

Common complaints

Review trustMostly organic

5.00★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 5.00★
0%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
100%5★ concentration — near-perfect across only 29 reviews — not yet a proven track record

Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower

2023-11-172025-03-112026-06-04

5★ reviews1–4★ reviews

All-time ratings · 29 total

5★

4★

3★

2★

1★

Latest reviews · 29 analyzed

2025-12-01★★★★★We use this on every project STHLM Web Design
2025-04-10★★★★★Great Plugin – Thank you!brings
2025-01-13★★★★★Easy to use phoenix36
2025-01-03★★★★★Easy to use and works very well Pär Thernström
2024-07-05★★★★★Excellent Ryan Hellyer
2024-04-21★★★★★So cool!snoop23
2024-03-27★★★★★Add this to core!CF
2024-02-29★★★★★Funciona de maravilla antoniofelices
2024-02-22★★★★★Almost perfect!Aurélien Denis
2024-01-03★★★★★Perfect Viszt Péter

Releases

recent versions from WordPress.org SVN

2026-01-18v2.0.0
2024-07-20v1.9.0
2024-03-24v1.8.0
2024-01-02v1.7.0
2023-07-30v1.6.0
2023-03-09v1.5.0
2023-01-03v1.4.0
2022-10-18v1.3.2

For developers & the curious

the raw signals behind the grade — none of this is on the friendly summary above

Download 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.

265

Baseline · median of last 7 organic days

219

Prior 7-day baseline

141

Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days

289

Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)

+21.0%

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.

17%

Max month share · biggest single 30-day window

1.60

Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty

100%

5★ share in analyzed sample

Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity

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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo

5.00 → 5.00★

Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered