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Modal Window – create popup modal window
Flashy popups that might annoy your visitors as much as your users.
HealthyGrowingPoor rating
67/100
The plugin offers many features but suffers from broken functionality and intrusive ads.
Active installs
~15,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 10k+
Rating
3.8★
36 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
+45%
Growing fast
41 → 60 installs/day
What to watch out for
- MINORverified rating is 3.67★
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 · +45% in the last year
41/day a year ago→60/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayModal Window is praised for its feature set, ease of use, and responsive support, but users frequently encounter broken functionality, intrusive ads, and limitations in the free version.
What people like
- +Feature-rich and meets user requirements×2
- +Easy to set up, use, and customize×3
- +Responsive and helpful support from the developer×4
- +Nice design and user interface
- +Works well in the free version
Common complaints
- −Updates and changes do not take effect; old modals persist after edits or reinstall
- −User interface problems, including unreadable backend text, broken preview, unwanted UI elements, and instant uninstall issues×2
- −Free version is heavily limited, making it difficult to use
- −Unwanted ads and promotional content (e.g., NFT ads, constant pro-version prompts)×2
- −No option to control display frequency via cookies, causing modals to appear on every page
- −Scrolling does not work for larger modals due to poor CSS implementation
- −Modal functionality fails (preview not working, button not appearing)
Review trustMostly organic
- 3.67★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 3.80★
- 8%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
- past spikeReview timing — up to 25% 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 · 36 total
Latest reviews · 36 analyzed
- 2025-12-09★★★★★Complete GarbageENHAdmin
- 2025-01-10★★★★★Never used a crappier pluginjarekluberek
- 2024-05-01★★★★★UselessChris White
- 2024-02-20★★★★★Excellent Modal Popup Pluginluisgalvanaybar
- 2023-10-18★★★★★Hacked plugin! Remove it!magicianul
- 2023-08-26★★★★★Modal pop up issue in mobilesaubhik991-shot
- 2023-08-14★★★★★Excelente!jcax2
- 2023-08-12★★★★★easy to use and good supportmattscott
- 2023-04-21★★★★★Brilliant plugin – and incredible fast support!shanDB
- 2023-01-05★★★★★Great pop up plugin!naomibuch
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.
72
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
63
Prior 7-day baseline
56
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
970
Mean release-day peak (30d)
79
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
+14.3%
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.
25%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
2.11
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
58%
5★ share in analyzed sample
8%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
3.75 → 3.67★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered