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Page Builder: Pagelayer – Drag and Drop website builder
Building is easy until you try to resize your own logo.
HealthyGrowingPoor rating
63/100
Frequent paywalls for basic settings and unresponsive support make this builder a risky choice.
Active installs
~450,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 400k+
Rating
3.9★
102 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
+7%
Growing
1,426 → 1,529 installs/day
What to watch out for
- MINORverified rating is 3.91★
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 · +7% in the last year
1,426/day a year ago→1,529/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayPagelayer is a functional drag-and-drop page builder with a decent free tier, but it carries a persistent reputation for aggressive upselling of basic features and unresponsive support.
What people like
- +Works as advertised for basic page building once users get past the learning curve×3
- +Good page load speed due to direct WordPress integration
- +Reasonable pricing for the pro version
- +Expanded template library when paired with the PopularFX theme
Common complaints
- −Basic features locked behind a paid upgrade, including trivial things like resizing a logo or controlling fonts and styles×3
- −Overrides site fonts and styles by default, requiring a paid upgrade to stop
- −Support is unresponsive — at least one user reported a month of unanswered contact attempts after a WordPress update broke the plugin×2
- −Steeper-than-expected learning curve and complex settings×2
- −Editor experience described as frustrating and inferior to competing builders like Elementor, Kadence, and Bricks×2
Review trustReviews look organic
- 3.91★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 3.90★
- 29%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 · 102 total
Latest reviews · 90 analyzed
- 2026-04-10★★★★★Supporto inesistentesarabrandani94
- 2025-12-10★★★★★AI even thinks this editor is crap!plb1968
- 2025-06-17★★★★★for me the bestdolceremy
- 2025-06-10★★★★★So helpful!eatinglifeup1-shot
- 2025-05-09★★★★★Grows on yousjgarth
- 2025-02-04★★★★★Starting new with PagelayoutPiotr Domański
- 2024-12-09★★★★★West of TimeMotiur Rahman
- 2024-11-26★★★★★Bon éditeur de site webjeanluc30
- 2024-04-13★★★★★Excellentadika1995
- 2024-04-08★★★★★Wanted to charge me to stop overriding my fontsmkuech1-shot
Releases
recent versions from WordPress.org SVNAlternatives to Page Builder
Top Builders plugins, ranked by score.For 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.
1,336
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
1,334
Prior 7-day baseline
1,275
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
5,780
Mean release-day peak (30d)
1,293
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
+0.1%
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.
11%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
1.37
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
68%
5★ share in analyzed sample
29%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
3.91 → 3.91★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered