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Nginx Helper
A useful Nginx tool that might be ghosting its users.
HealthyGrowing
64/100
It provides useful Nginx integration but suffers from unreliable purging and signs of abandonment.
Active installs
~250,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 200k+
Rating
4.4★
31 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
+39%
Growing fast
687 → 957 installs/day
What to watch out for
- 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
Growing fast · +39% in the last year
687/day a year ago→957/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayNginx Helper is a functional cache-management plugin for Nginx-based WordPress setups that users find useful when it works, but it is undermined by recurring complaints about broken cache purging, compatibility issues, and signs of an abandoned or stagnant project.
What people like
- +Simplifies WordPress hosting on Nginx, especially alongside EasyEngine×3
- +Setup is described as straightforward when following the instructions×2
Common complaints
- −Cache purging does not work reliably — fails to purge on new posts, post updates, and comment updates×3
- −Plugin appears abandoned: support threads go unanswered and no active development on GitHub
- −The HTML timestamp appended to pages breaks third-party integrations such as newsletter subscriptions and payment gateways
- −Setup requires replacing the system Nginx installation with the plugin's own version, which users consider risky
- −An update was pushed that broke existing installations without warning
Review trustMostly organic
- 4.47★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.40★
- 3%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
- past spikeReview timing — up to 50% 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 · 31 total
Latest reviews · 31 analyzed
- 2024-02-27★★★★★Very Goodshahinsafari
- 2023-07-28★★★★★It works for meGulshan Kumar
- 2022-09-14★★★★★Awesome plugin!Pavel Richter
- 2022-07-29★★★★★Useless – Waste of timeMostafiz Shamim
- 2022-05-25★★★★★Works well :)druut
- 2022-05-03★★★★★Work like a charmRian Adelio
- 2021-08-27★★★★★Awesome Performance!Singh
- 2020-06-09★★★★★Very helpful!Kim
- 2020-01-08★★★★★504 Gateway Time-outleondari
- 2020-01-01★★★★★Not working for some reasontomeryatir
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.
929
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
960
Prior 7-day baseline
727
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
967
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
-3.2%
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.
50%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
4.06
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
81%
5★ share in analyzed sample
3%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.35 → 4.47★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered