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Shariff Wrapper
The privacy champion for social sharing without the heavy bloat.
HealthyGrowing
93/100
Users value the privacy focus and lightweight code. One reviewer reports declining support.
Active installs
~84,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 30k+
Rating
4.9★
101 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
+167%
Growing fast
102 → 273 installs/day
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
Growing fast · +167% in the last year
102/day a year ago→273/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayShariff Wrapper is well-regarded as a lightweight, GDPR-compliant social sharing plugin, though a notable complaint about absent support and growing issues has surfaced from at least one user.
What people like
- +GDPR/privacy compliance: no personal data is shared with third parties until the user actively clicks a button×5
- +Lightweight and fast, adding minimal overhead compared to competing plugins×3
- +Clean, professional-looking buttons×2
- +Supports many popular social networks and is easy to configure×2
- +Reliable across multiple updates and WordPress versions×2
- +Support praised as competent and helpful (by some users)×2
Common complaints
- −Support has become unresponsive, with at least one user reporting no support for months and increasing problems
- −Unnecessary JavaScript usage and inline script placement makes implementing a strict Content Security Policy (CSP) difficult
- −Missing support for newer social networks (e.g., Bluesky Social) that users are requesting
Review trustMostly organic
- 4.89★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.90★
- 6%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
- past spikeReview timing — up to 25% of all reviews landed in a single month
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2023-12-172025-03-112026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 101 total
Latest reviews · 90 analyzed
- 2025-05-20★★★★★GDPR-Compliant Social Sharing Made Simplewebtrommel
- 2025-01-06★★★★★A good plugin, but I miss Bluesky Social in the listnmrockswp
- 2024-11-27★★★★★Perfectbdbdb
- 2023-11-27★★★★★Amazing worl!Derda
- 2022-07-02★★★★★Good plugin to respect visitor's rightsnarcisgarcia
- 2022-02-09★★★★★Best Sharing Plugin on The Repository!Jimmy Lee
- 2021-06-02★★★★★Great Plugincarcass
- 2020-09-28★★★★★Problems are going up, Support ZeroThe-Dude
- 2020-08-30★★★★★A compact and functional pluginphotographygroup
- 2020-03-15★★★★★The Fastest, Leanest and Most Reliable social sharing pluginacelerawp
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.
309
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
419
Prior 7-day baseline
268
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
18,210
Mean release-day peak (30d)
275
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
-26.3%
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.
25%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
2.60
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
96%
5★ share in analyzed sample
6%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.86 → 4.89★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered