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Reusable Blocks Extended
The missing piece for Gutenberg that might leave you on read.
Declining
69/100
It adds vital block management features but the developer is often hard to reach.
Active installs
~25,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 20k+
Rating
4.8★
39 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
-38%
Declining fast
55 → 34 installs/day
What to watch out for
- MINORdownloads down 38% vs a year ago
- MINORnot updated in 6 months
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
55/day a year ago→34/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayReusable Blocks Extended is well-regarded as a practical enhancement to WordPress's native block management, praised for features that many feel should be built into core, though it suffers from an unresponsive developer and compatibility issues with other admin column plugins.
What people like
- +Provides a dedicated admin interface for managing reusable blocks and patterns without needing to open a page or post×5
- +Shows where each reusable block or template is being used across the site, which users find highly valuable×3
- +Allows placing reusable blocks and patterns anywhere in the theme, including sidebars×2
- +Prevents accidental edits to reusable blocks that would propagate changes site-wide
- +Broadly considered useful enough to install on every site×2
Common complaints
- −Developer is unresponsive in the support forum, leaving users without help when problems arise
- −Compatibility issues with other plugins that add columns to the reusable blocks admin view (e.g. Article Word Count Column, Sortable Word Count Reloaded)
- −Problems have been creeping in over time with no apparent fixes
Review trustMostly organic
- 4.81★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.80★
- 5%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
- past spikeReview timing — up to 29% 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 · 39 total
Latest reviews · 39 analyzed
- 2025-09-03★★★★★Makes life so much easier!whichgodsaves
- 2025-08-19★★★★★Valuable addition for working with templatesOrlandoo
- 2024-06-14★★★★★This does the job of a $200 pluginLine49 Design
- 2024-06-04★★★★★Lack Of Supportmjmurphy53711
- 2024-03-11★★★★★Awesomerobertorefresh
- 2023-11-28★★★★★Need help “500 Internal Server Error”marklustre
- 2023-09-24★★★★★Saved me lots of timetomo55555
- 2023-03-30★★★★★I wish I could use this…Oliver @ WebMatros.com
- 2023-03-21★★★★★Excellent pluginKS
- 2022-07-15★★★★★Un must useMon Coach WP
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.
38
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
32
Prior 7-day baseline
19
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
73
Mean release-day peak (30d)
38
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
+18.8%
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.
29%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
2.53
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
95%
5★ share in analyzed sample
5%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.82 → 4.81★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered