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Mobile Contact Bar
A stylish mobile shortcut that occasionally reloads your whole page.
Declining
59/100
Easy setup and nice design are offset by functional bugs and poor support.
Active installs
~15,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 10k+
Rating
4.6★
30 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
-35%
Declining fast
17 → 11 installs/day
What to watch out for
- MINORdownloads down 35% vs a year ago
- MINORnot updated in 10 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 · -35% in the last year
17/day a year ago→11/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayMobile Contact Bar is widely praised for its easy setup, attractive design and useful mobile shortcuts, but some users report functional failures and a lack of responsive support.
What people like
- +Easy and quick to set up×3
- +Attractive visual design
- +Provides useful mobile shortcuts (call, SMS, map)×2
- +Works as described for many users×2
- +Offers many customization options×2
- +Works on multiple sites
- +Free and considered high quality
Common complaints
- −Plugin fails to work correctly (buttons reload page, cannot add anchor links, requires HTML code that breaks the page)
- −Requires icons for everything, no text option
- −Lack of responsive support; developer not listening to user requests
- −Missing features such as background-color per button, XFN attributes, and additional icons×3
Review trustMostly organic
- 4.52★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.60★
- 10%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
- past spikeReview timing — up to 33% of all reviews landed in a single month
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2023-12-172025-03-112026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 30 total
Latest reviews · 30 analyzed
- 2024-07-04★★★★★Looks great. Doesn't workShizart
- 2024-01-24★★★★★Highly recommend!neviosh
- 2023-12-12★★★★★AWESOME MOBILE WORDPRESS PLUGINgositepro
- 2022-10-12★★★★★Nice!!!alperheper
- 2021-09-19★★★★★Very good plugin!CheckIt016
- 2021-05-10★★★★★useful pluginDIMITRIS
- 2021-03-24★★★★★No plugin supportwebfantastic
- 2020-11-24★★★★★Best Pluginsbhttn251-shot
- 2020-08-31★★★★★So glad I found this!granatdesign
- 2020-04-09★★★★★Wonderful little plugindanielepais
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.
9
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
11
Prior 7-day baseline
8
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
8
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
-18.2%
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.
33%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
3.06
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
80%
5★ share in analyzed sample
10%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.57 → 4.52★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered