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Side Cart Woocommerce | Woocommerce Cart
Rapid support wins hearts while the Pro version grabs wallets.
Healthy
87/100
The support is incredibly fast. Most advanced features require a paid upgrade.
Active installs
~85,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 80k+
Rating
4.9★
451 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
-1%
Holding steady
550 → 542 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
Holding steady · -1% in the last year
550/day a year ago→542/day today
Reviews
what people actually saySide Cart WooCommerce enjoys a strong reputation as a feature-rich, highly customizable side cart plugin with exceptionally fast and helpful developer support, though the most desirable features require upgrading to the paid version.
What people like
- +Support is consistently praised as extremely fast and knowledgeable, with multiple users reporting responses in under 5 minutes and receiving custom code snippets×8
- +Highly customizable frontend with a feature-rich backend interface that makes it easy to modify the cart's appearance×4
- +Works reliably where other side cart plugins have failed×3
- +Premium version offers meaningful additional features that users find worthwhile, including shipping calculation×3
- +Developer-friendly, supporting template overrides and style deregistration, and compatible with page builders like Divi and Bricks×2
- +Improves the customer shopping experience by eliminating the need to navigate to a separate cart page×2
Common complaints
- −Key features are locked behind the paid/premium version, limiting the free version's usefulness×3
- −Can conflict with caching plugins, causing display issues such as a broken basket icon, requiring manual cache exclusion rules to fix
Review trustReviews look organic
- 4.90★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.90★
- 19%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2024-02-152025-04-102026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 451 total
Latest reviews · 90 analyzed
- 2026-06-01★★★★★Great, lean plugin, even better customer supportpatboran
- 2026-05-22★★★★★Greatnicolaaaas1-shot
- 2026-04-13★★★★★Amazing pluginAlessio
- 2026-03-28★★★★★Great Pluginrb285
- 2026-03-05★★★★★Fantastic Plug-In & Outstanding Supportingwererdbaer1-shot
- 2026-02-20★★★★★Excellent plugin, premium supportDrCashew1-shot
- 2026-02-16★★★★★greatvintagefootballclub
- 2026-02-05★★★★★User Friendly and Great Supportontarioagra
- 2026-02-04★★★★★Best Side Cart Plugin to Datetonyquicktech
- 2025-11-19★★★★★Pick this Side Cartrobinlindehof1-shot
Releases
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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.
545
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
555
Prior 7-day baseline
396
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
2,332
Mean release-day peak (30d)
549
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
-1.8%
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.
8%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
0.70
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
98%
5★ share in analyzed sample
19%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
-10%
Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.92 → 4.90★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered