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Custom Block Builder – Lazy Blocks
The lightweight alternative for developers who hate heavy page builders.
HealthyGrowing
92/100
Developers love the speed of building custom blocks despite some multilingual limitations.
Active installs
~25,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 20k+
Rating
4.9★
80 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
+94%
Growing fast
63 → 123 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 · +94% in the last year
63/day a year ago→123/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayLazy Blocks is a well-regarded custom block builder that earns strong praise for making Gutenberg block development accessible and fast, with the notable caveat that it is not compatible with WPML and cannot be used on multilingual sites.
What people like
- +Simplifies and speeds up custom Gutenberg block development, especially for PHP-oriented developers×5
- +Flexible and feature-rich, with extensive options for defining block controls and design output×4
- +Good documentation and developer-friendly interface×2
- +Responsive personal support from the developer
Common complaints
- −Not compatible with WPML, making it unusable for multilingual sites
Review trustReviews look organic
- 4.94★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.90★
- 1%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 · 80 total
Latest reviews · 80 analyzed
- 2025-09-30★★★★★Amazing pluginKS
- 2025-06-26★★★★★Speeds up developmentpixelmodifier
- 2025-05-31★★★★★Greatest plugin for all people who hate Page BuildersPavel Leontiev
- 2025-03-28★★★★★Nice pluginryo_relic
- 2024-11-05★★★★★LOVE ITMatt Rock
- 2024-09-09★★★★★Best Block Plugin!robertorefresh
- 2024-03-20★★★★★Fantastic Plugin For DevelopersSteven Ayers
- 2023-07-13★★★★★Must Have Plugin – Best Supportmarkusmai
- 2023-02-06★★★★★Dissatisfied with core blocks? Create your own in minutes!Bjarne Oldrup
- 2022-12-04★★★★★Good plugin for monolingual sitesFelix
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.
243
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
92
Prior 7-day baseline
177
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
421
Mean release-day peak (30d)
243
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
+164.1%
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.
13%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
1.87
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
95%
5★ share in analyzed sample
1%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.94 → 4.94★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered