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Recipe Card Blocks Lite
A tasty little block that leaves food bloggers hungry for the Pro version.
Healthy
79/100
It offers solid schema and ease of use but requires Pro for essential features like star ratings.
Active installs
~15,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 10k+
Rating
4.8★
20 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
-1%
Holding steady
76 → 75 installs/day
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 · -1% in the last year
76/day a year ago→75/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayRecipe Card Blocks Lite is generally praised for its ease of use, solid support, and automatic schema markup, but users note missing core features like rating, recipe import, and step-by-step photo uploads.
What people like
- +Responsive and helpful support team×5
- +Intuitive and easy-to-use interface×4
- +Generates correct JSON-LD / schema markup without coding×2
- +Flexible block that can be placed anywhere (posts, pages, CPTs)
- +Bulk-add feature for converting existing recipes
- +Works well with Gutenberg and allows custom CSS tweaks
Common complaints
- −Missing built-in rating feature
- −No ability to import recipes from other plugins
- −Business plan pricing perceived as misaligned with feature set
- −Lacks photo upload capability for step-by-step instructions
Review trustMostly organic
- 4.79★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.80★
- 30%One-shot reviewers — single-review accounts (common for popular plugins, but worth noting)
- past spikeReview timing — up to 67% of all reviews landed in a single month
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2023-10-182025-02-092026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 20 total
Latest reviews · 20 analyzed
- 2024-01-30★★★★★Good Plugin, but Business Plan Needs AdjustmentBraian Menkhoff
- 2024-01-30★★★★★Importing recipesBehrouz
- 2023-09-21★★★★★Amazing pluginedlira
- 2023-03-28★★★★★LumayanSinta Aliya1-shot
- 2022-10-30★★★★★oksantis11-shot
- 2021-12-27★★★★★Spectacular PluginTamie
- 2021-12-21★★★★★Easy Clean Recipe Card Plugin with the BEST Customer Supportmomentsandmeals1-shot
- 2021-05-25★★★★★Very fast support!!!! Perfect!valentynminin
- 2021-05-24★★★★★Elegant and flexiblegeokongr
- 2020-09-01★★★★★Recipes Done Rightcaptainswallow
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.
66
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
67
Prior 7-day baseline
70
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
1,262
Mean release-day peak (30d)
163
Latest day · 2026-06-03(spike)
-1.5%
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.
67%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
4.16
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
85%
5★ share in analyzed sample
30%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.80 → 4.79★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered