51
Jetpack Social
It promises set and forget but delivers set and reconnect.
DecliningPoor rating
51/100
Users appreciate the convenience. They struggle with frequent disconnections and broken image handling.
Active installs
~69,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 30k+
Rating
3.3★
74 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
-28%
Declining fast
304 → 220 installs/day
What to watch out for
- MAJORverified rating is 3.13★
- MINORdownloads down 28% 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 · -28% in the last year
304/day a year ago→220/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayJetpack Social is appreciated for simplifying multi-platform sharing from WordPress, but it is undermined by persistent connectivity failures, image-handling bugs, inconsistent formatting, and slow or unresponsive paid support.
What people like
- +Simplifies publishing to multiple social media platforms in one step, saving significant time×3
- +Easy to set up and use compared to manual API-based alternatives×2
Common complaints
- −Persistent disconnection from social media accounts, requiring repeated reconnection that does not hold
- −Does not reliably use the post's featured image; pulls a site-level image instead×2
- −Inconsistent post formatting across platforms, with no way to save per-platform formatting preferences
- −Bluesky posts get cut off with ellipsis even when well within the character limit, and images require exact 1:1 ratio or display with bars
- −Injects duplicate OG tags, conflicting with existing meta tag setups
- −Buggy behavior after WordPress reinstall, with JSON errors on paid features and no clear resolution path
- −Slow or non-existent support response, even for paying subscribers×2
- −Does not support posting to X (Twitter), requiring manual sharing for that platform
- −Misleading free tier — core functionality requires a paid subscription
Review trustReviews look organic
- 3.13★Verified rating — drops from 3.30★ once one-shot reviewers are removed
- 11%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2023-08-192025-01-102026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 74 total
Latest reviews · 75 analyzed
- 2026-03-25★★★★★Doesn't Worktwisties34
- 2026-03-19★★★★★Jetpack Social Pluginbillyroberts
- 2026-03-05★★★★★Social sharing right from your WordPress post … improvedzeldman1-shot
- 2026-02-17★★★★★love itأبو زيد الشلبي
- 2026-02-09★★★★★Very Easy To Use, Though The Partner Ecosystem Is Lackinganthonybmallgren
- 2026-01-22★★★★★Works so easily out of the boxandicnz
- 2026-01-12★★★★★Best Plugin ever i seenethicalsamir1-shot
- 2025-10-14★★★★★Jetpack Socialnisarraja67151-shot
- 2025-10-11★★★★★This is a mustRafael Meneses
- 2025-08-30★★★★★Great functionalityDiego Bittencourt
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.
223
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
214
Prior 7-day baseline
165
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
13,527
Mean release-day peak (30d)
1,070
Latest day · 2026-06-03(spike)
+4.2%
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
0.77
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
52%
5★ share in analyzed sample
11%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
+40%
Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
3.28 → 3.13★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered