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Omnibus — show the lowest price
Legal compliance is easy until your database starts bloating.
Healthy
59/100
It offers easy compliance but creates heavy database bloat and often displays the wrong price.
Active installs
~15,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 10k+
Rating
4.2★
50 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
-4%
Holding steady
24 → 23 installs/day
What to watch out for
- MINORnot updated in 11 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
Holding steady · -4% in the last year
24/day a year ago→23/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayOmnibus is a functional plugin that many find easy to set up and style, but users repeatedly report severe database bloat, incorrect price calculations, and performance issues.
What people like
- +Easy to install and ready to use out of the box
- +Can be translated easily (e.g., via TranslatePress)
- +Styling can be customized with CSS
- +Developer provides prompt bug fixes and active maintenance
Common complaints
- −Generates massive numbers of database rows/records, causing severe bloat (since 3.0)×4
- −Displays the current promotional price instead of the true lowest price from 30 days ago×6
- −Incompatible with PHP 8.2, preventing updates
- −High CPU usage and server errors (e.g., 100% CPU, 503 errors)
- −Support response can be slow or unavailable
- −Does not handle multi-currency stores correctly
- −Updates require migrations that create thousands of unnecessary IDs
- −Changes to promotional prices via API are not detected
Review trustReviews look organic
- 4.38★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.20★
- 10%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 · 50 total
Latest reviews · 50 analyzed
- 2026-05-11★★★★★no database cleanupdanny1918
- 2025-06-27★★★★★Great ♥Vania
- 2025-01-09★★★★★działamussonet
- 2024-12-04★★★★★Źle wyświetlana cena promocyjna, gdy wcześniej nie było promocji.streamsim
- 2024-11-21★★★★★Nie działa – proszę o pomocszobak1-shot
- 2024-11-17★★★★★Not working – Always using the lowest pricewordagama1-shot
- 2024-10-22★★★★★swietna wtyczka!aniapiwo
- 2024-10-10★★★★★Wieczne problemymaciek257
- 2024-08-20★★★★★Błąd krytyczny strony – nie polecam!karola21
- 2024-07-13★★★★★Generates hundreds of thousands recordsadmi112
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.
21
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
33
Prior 7-day baseline
19
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
31
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
-36.4%
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.
15%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
1.42
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
74%
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
4.20 → 4.38★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered