87
Secure vector uploads with a plugin that occasionally naps.
Healthy
87/100
It provides essential SVG sanitization despite occasional maintenance lapses and compatibility issues.
Active installs
~1.5 million
our estimate · wp.org shows 1.0M+
Rating
4.9★
78 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
+4%
Holding steady
3,739 → 3,898 installs/day
What to watch out for
- 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
Holding steady · +4% in the last year
3,739/day a year ago→3,898/day today
Reviews
what people actually saySafe SVG is well-regarded as a simple, lightweight solution for enabling SVG uploads in WordPress with built-in sanitization, though it has historically suffered from periods of abandonment and carries a few edge-case compatibility gaps.
What people like
- +Does exactly what it promises: enables SVG uploads in the WordPress media library with minimal setup×8
- +Sanitizes SVGs on upload, removing malicious or malformed code before files reach the media library×2
- +Lightweight and unobtrusive — users note it adds no noticeable overhead under normal conditions×2
- +Users feel SVG support should be WordPress core functionality, and this plugin fills that gap cleanly×4
Common complaints
- −Plugin went unmaintained for roughly two years, causing concern among users who rely on it for client sites×3
- −SVG upload not supported in taxonomy/terms sections (e.g., category image fields), producing an upload error
- −Caused severely degraded page load times (approx. 30 seconds vs. 1–2 seconds) on homepage translations when used alongside WPML
- −At least one user was unable to get SVG uploading to work at all despite trying multiple files and troubleshooting steps
Review trustReviews look organic
- 4.87★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.90★
- 3%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 · 78 total
Latest reviews · 78 analyzed
- 2026-04-23★★★★★Very helpful pluginjeeni
- 2026-03-11★★★★★Works Welldevlin1
- 2025-11-19★★★★★Nice And EasyReza Asadi
- 2025-06-23★★★★★Good plugin, but missing …rrvoigt
- 2025-04-30★★★★★Wonderful + fetaure requestStefano
- 2025-03-25★★★★★ELEMENTOR+Safe SVG=It worksbandgamin
- 2024-11-14★★★★★EffortlessJimmy Lee
- 2024-07-31★★★★★Caused very long loading times in homepage translations (wpml)headfalcon
- 2024-07-30★★★★★Quick and easy!iz4atkal
- 2024-01-10★★★★★Sorry, you are not allowed to upload this file type.psyphi
Releases
recent versions from WordPress.org SVNAlternatives to Safe SVG
Top Media plugins, ranked by score.For 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.
3,366
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
4,266
Prior 7-day baseline
2,327
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
4,965
Mean release-day peak (30d)
4,330
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
-21.1%
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.
17%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
1.70
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
90%
5★ share in analyzed sample
3%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.87 → 4.87★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered