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Post Slider and Post Carousel with Post Vertical Scrolling Widget – A Responsive Post Slider
Fast sliders that rely heavily on polite but empty five star reviews.
HealthyDeclining
68/100
Users appreciate the speed and support despite a confusing interface and hollow reviews.
Active installs
~15,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 10k+
Rating
4.7★
31 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
-38%
Declining fast
125 → 77 installs/day
What to watch out for
- MINORdownloads down 38% 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 · -38% in the last year
125/day a year ago→77/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayThe plugin is widely appreciated for its speed, helpful support, and useful features such as custom post-type sliders and excerpt customization, though a few users report a confusing interface and missing WebP image support.
What people like
- +Fast performance; does not slow down the homepage
- +Responsive and helpful support×4
- +Easy to use
- +Useful for featured posts and fills gaps left by other plugins
- +Allows post excerpt customization for intro text
- +Adaptable column layout for portrait iPad view
- +Supports custom post types in sliders
- +Reasonable pricing for the Pro version
Common complaints
- −Missing WebP image support, leading to blank images
- −Interface is confusing and hard to understand
- −Bug in the vertical slider
Review trustMostly organic
- 4.62★Verified rating — drops from 4.70★ once one-shot reviewers are removed
- 32%One-shot reviewers — single-review accounts (common for popular plugins, but worth noting)
- past spikeReview timing — up to 25% 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 · 31 total
Latest reviews · 31 analyzed
- 2025-07-21★★★★★Slider plugin is blazing fastknealm
- 2025-07-09★★★★★Great little pluginseapoole1-shot
- 2025-01-18★★★★★Great plugin and support!abaction1-shot
- 2024-07-05★★★★★Great plugin!michelles00
- 2023-06-01★★★★★Great Post and Post slider pluginchihi108
- 2023-05-24★★★★★recommended plugin and supportm0rri1-shot
- 2023-05-22★★★★★Very helpful support teamichaloupka1-shot
- 2023-01-22★★★★★Just missing 1 Featuremschuyler86
- 2022-11-17★★★★★Perfect Plugin, Amazing supporticyvi1-shot
- 2022-10-24★★★★★RecommendedNolan
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.
59
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
79
Prior 7-day baseline
53
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
210
Mean release-day peak (30d)
51
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
-25.3%
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.
25%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
2.24
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
90%
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
4.74 → 4.62★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered