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Post and Page Builder by BoldGrid – Visual Drag and Drop Editor
Simple page building with a heavy side of upselling.
HealthyDeclining
71/100
The builder is easy to use but requires payment for meaningful customization.
Active installs
~51,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 50k+
Rating
4.7★
140 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
-17%
Declining
59 → 49 installs/day
What to watch out for
- MINORreviews unevenly distributed over time
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 · -17% in the last year
59/day a year ago→49/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayPost and Page Builder by BoldGrid is generally well-regarded as a flexible, accessible drag-and-drop editor for non-developers, though it carries a notable learning curve and a significant caveat around paywalled customization in its free tier.
What people like
- +Enables non-experts to create professional-looking pages without deep technical knowledge×6
- +Flexible and works well with most other plugins×2
- +Saves time with convenient, effective features×2
- +Premium version significantly expands capabilities×2
Common complaints
- −Meaningful customization is locked behind a paywall, with costs described as excessive×2
- −Learning curve before the builder feels intuitive×4
- −WYSIWYG inconsistency — editor view does not always match the published output, especially with some WordPress themes
- −Fine column/layout adjustments still require going into code manually
- −Onboarding and marketing pitch are unclear, particularly for beginners
Review trustMostly organic
- 4.67★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.70★
- 32%One-shot reviewers — single-review accounts (common for popular plugins, but worth noting)
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2023-07-202025-01-102026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 140 total
Latest reviews · 90 analyzed
- 2026-02-02★★★★★Good Productluckycat
- 2026-01-25★★★★★Worth it.ryeorion
- 2025-10-19★★★★★Takes some getting used tounleashedfinancial
- 2024-11-11★★★★★pretty solid CMS for my purposesbcook2024
- 2024-11-11★★★★★My favorite editor, bar none.tubaphonium
- 2024-06-17★★★★★Great tool, for busy and lay peopleacalongo1-shot
- 2023-10-17★★★★★Beautiful – like poetryGiuliano
- 2023-10-13★★★★★Very goodcraigpisano
- 2023-07-26★★★★★Satisfactoyroobha
- 2023-07-04★★★★★Easy and VersatileJennifer Newbold
Releases
recent versions from WordPress.org SVNAlternatives to Post and Page Builder by BoldGrid
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.
46
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
49
Prior 7-day baseline
45
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
10,251
Mean release-day peak (30d)
54
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
-6.1%
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.
20%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
2.18
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
86%
5★ share in analyzed sample
32%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.76 → 4.67★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered