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WP Tripadvisor Review Widgets
A pretty face that struggles to actually fetch your reviews.
DecliningPoor rating
57/100
Visual customization is good but the review download process often fails and the free tier feels like a trap.
Active installs
~25,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 20k+
Rating
4.1★
114 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
-30%
Declining fast
183 → 129 installs/day
What to watch out for
- MINORverified rating is 3.99★
- 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
183/day a year ago→129/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayWP Tripadvisor Review Widgets is appreciated for its ease of use and visual flexibility, but a recurring and serious complaint is that the review download process gets permanently stuck, and some users feel the free tier is effectively a bait-and-switch for a paid subscription.
What people like
- +Easy to set up with no API keys required×2
- +Supports multiple platforms beyond Tripadvisor (Google, Booking.com, Airbnb/Expedia)×2
- +Flexible display options including grid and slider layouts×2
- +Professional visual customization that integrates well with WordPress
Common complaints
- −Review download process gets permanently stuck and never completes×4
- −Free version appears to be a limited trial that requires a paid subscription for full functionality×3
- −Tripadvisor-specific functionality unreliable while other platform integrations (e.g. Google) continue to work
Review trustReviews look organic
- 3.99★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.10★
- 10%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 · 114 total
Latest reviews · 90 analyzed
- 2026-05-22★★★★★Works well and best plugin for tripadvisorwarnasuriya
- 2026-05-22★★★★★Excellent Plugin for WordPressTatomixes
- 2026-04-02★★★★★Greatevren201-shot
- 2026-03-20★★★★★It does exactly what it says in the tindanielepais
- 2026-02-10★★★★★Neatwanderdesk
- 2026-02-06★★★★★Amazing Great Plugin works well with our sitephillipjotham
- 2025-08-29★★★★★It does not workbn01
- 2025-07-23★★★★★Great pluginbbsmith
- 2025-06-17★★★★★good and helpfulldineshhetti
- 2025-05-16★★★★★great!!albaik
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.
101
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
122
Prior 7-day baseline
85
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
301
Mean release-day peak (30d)
106
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
-17.2%
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.
11%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
0.94
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
72%
5★ share in analyzed sample
10%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
+100%
Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.03 → 3.99★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered