65
Responsive Plus – Elementor Templates & Starter Sites
Quick site building with a side of unavoidable admin nagging.
Declining
65/100
The templates are helpful but the intrusive admin ads and persistent nag notices cause frustration.
Active installs
~26,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 10k+
Rating
4.5★
37 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
-30%
Declining fast
180 → 126 installs/day
What to watch out for
- MINORreviews unevenly distributed over time
- MINORdownloads down 30% 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 · -30% in the last year
180/day a year ago→126/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayResponsive Plus is generally praised for its easy setup, flexibility and Elementor integration, but users frequently complain about intrusive admin ads, nag notices and leftover prompts that cannot be dismissed.
What people like
- +Easy configuration and quick setup×3
- +Flexibility and variability across multiple sites
- +Integration with Elementor×2
- +Meets organizational needs
- +Free version provides adequate functionality
- +Site templates enable rapid site creation
Common complaints
- −Intrusive advertisements in the admin panel that cannot be removed
- −Persistent review nag/notification that cannot be dismissed
- −Theme feels outdated or "old hat"
- −Admin notice remains after uninstall, causing frustration
Review trustMostly organic
- 4.58★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.50★
- 30%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
- past spikeReview timing — up to 30% of all reviews landed in a single month
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2024-05-152025-06-092026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 37 total
Latest reviews · 37 analyzed
- 2025-12-01★★★★★Awesometlashmi
- 2025-11-14★★★★★Excellent plugin for importing readymade websitesRahul Lakhwani
- 2025-11-12★★★★★Muy util, Graciasgdperellon1-shot
- 2025-08-21★★★★★Bien, pero …joseluistajada
- 2025-05-13★★★★★brevodcapes1-shot
- 2025-03-24★★★★★Perfect!ulaahi
- 2025-03-19★★★★★My goto templates – love the flexibilitypheadirean
- 2025-02-15★★★★★Excellenttpetite
- 2025-02-12★★★★★Ease of using Responsive starter templatePradeep
- 2024-04-19★★★★★Great ThemeMike_L_01
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.
137
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
99
Prior 7-day baseline
138
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
4,615
Mean release-day peak (30d)
127
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
+38.4%
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.
30%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
2.05
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
81%
5★ share in analyzed sample
30%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
-100%
Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.49 → 4.58★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered