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Ocean Extra
A companion plugin that might crash your entire website.
DecliningPoor rating
48/100
Frequent updates cause fatal errors and site crashes while support for these issues is paywalled.
Active installs
~550,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 500k+
Rating
3.3★
67 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
-31%
Declining fast
3,366 → 2,325 installs/day
What to watch out for
- MAJORverified rating is 3.47★
- MINORdownloads down 31% 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 · -31% in the last year
3,366/day a year ago→2,325/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayOcean Extra is a companion plugin for the OceanWP theme that has a poor reputation among users, with recurring complaints about site-crashing updates, poor performance, and paywalled support.
What people like
- +Provides extra functionality valued by OceanWP theme users×2
- +Theme/template design is considered visually appealing×2
Common complaints
- −Updates have repeatedly crashed sites, taking down both front and back ends and affecting multiple sites at once×8
- −Poor and unresponsive support; free users are directed to pay for premium support to resolve critical issues×4
- −Causes significant performance problems, including very low Lighthouse/PageSpeed scores×3
- −Fatal errors reported following WordPress core updates with no timely fix×2
- −Bugs introduced in specific updates with no rollback option offered (since 2.0.4)×2
- −Slows down sites noticeably after updates (since 1.7.5)×2
- −Reported issues with Apple devices
- −One user reported plugin files appeared to be compromised/hacked
Review trustMostly organic
- 3.47★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 3.30★
- 12%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
- past spikeReview timing — up to 100% of all reviews landed in a single month
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2024-07-142025-07-092026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 67 total
Latest reviews · 68 analyzed
- 2024-06-26★★★★★Excelentmsantiagoov
- 2023-05-19★★★★★100% useful plugin for OceanWP ThemeAtul Prajapati
- 2023-03-17★★★★★Recommend not to usematejem
- 2023-01-11★★★★★I send my website down twiceandrea6661-shot
- 2022-11-14★★★★★Errormerten
- 2022-11-14★★★★★30 of my sites down because of ocean extra pluginRobbyw
- 2022-11-14★★★★★Crush my sitewyllspace
- 2022-11-14★★★★★Downed a 7,000 + page news websitepicturebox1
- 2022-11-14★★★★★Crashed several of my sites!tonip0ika
- 2022-11-14★★★★★Crashed my sitespencerphoto
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.
2,364
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
2,324
Prior 7-day baseline
3,235
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
47,005
Mean release-day peak (30d)
3,094
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
+1.7%
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.
100%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
4.80
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
54%
5★ share in analyzed sample
12%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
3.29 → 3.47★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered