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Redux Framework
A powerful developer toolkit that occasionally breaks the sites it builds.
DecliningPoor rating
66/100
Developers appreciate the deep customization but worry about updates that break sites.
Active installs
~1.5 million
our estimate · wp.org shows 1.0M+
Rating
4.4★
273 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
-12%
Declining
4,151 → 3,651 installs/day
What to watch out for
- MINORverified rating is 3.99★
- 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 · -12% in the last year
4,151/day a year ago→3,651/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayRedux Framework is a widely-used theme options framework that developers generally appreciate for its customization capabilities, but it carries a real risk of site-breaking issues on updates and has known performance and translation drawbacks.
What people like
- +Responsive and effective support team, with at least one case of a fix delivered within a day×2
- +Perceived as fast and capable for building theme options×2
Common complaints
- −Plugin updates have broken sites entirely, requiring rollback to a previous version to restore normal appearance×2
- −Significant site performance degradation reported after installation, with noticeably increased page load times
- −Translation support is broken for custom text domains, worsened by the _load_textdomain_just_in_time error introduced in WordPress 6.7 (since 6.7)
Review trustReviews look organic
- 3.99★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.40★
- 19%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2023-08-192025-01-102026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 273 total
Latest reviews · 90 analyzed
- 2026-03-15★★★★★Pretty Solid FrameworkRena
- 2025-08-13★★★★★Great plugin!Irina
- 2025-04-17★★★★★Translation Issuemasoud4x4
- 2024-11-26★★★★★Good frameworkerictyl
- 2024-11-26★★★★★Redux Framework Slowed Down My Site – Not Recommended for Travelista Themeabdulj891-shot
- 2024-11-12★★★★★Highly AppreciateAnil Chandra Robidas
- 2024-09-10★★★★★Insane!! Advanced Features given for free. Wowsone2341-shot
- 2024-08-19★★★★★Hot Messrosiesamerica1-shot
- 2024-06-28★★★★★lovely themeSITE WEB PRO DESIGN
- 2024-03-22★★★★★Great supportwebredox
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.
3,341
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
3,627
Prior 7-day baseline
2,999
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
16,119
Mean release-day peak (30d)
3,675
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
-7.9%
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.
23%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
1.83
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
69%
5★ share in analyzed sample
19%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
3.90 → 3.99★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered