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Simple CSS
The tiny CSS veteran that developers never seem to delete.
HealthyGrowing
84/100
This lightweight tool allows developers to scope CSS to specific pages.
Active installs
~85,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 80k+
Rating
4.9★
60 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
+150%
Growing fast
34 → 85 installs/day
What to watch out for
- MINORnot updated in 9 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
Growing fast · +150% in the last year
34/day a year ago→85/day today
Reviews
what people actually saySimple CSS is a well-regarded, lightweight developer utility for WordPress that earns consistent praise for its simplicity and per-page CSS scoping, with the only notable caveat being a user request for broader archive/index page support.
What people like
- +Ability to add CSS at both global and per-page/post level, reducing stylesheet bloat×5
- +Noticeably improves page load performance compared to alternatives like Jetpack custom CSS×2
- +Reliable and stable over long-term, multi-site use×4
- +Useful for granting non-admin users CSS access without broader permissions
- +Considered a go-to plugin installed on every new site build by multiple developers×4
Common complaints
- −Custom CSS does not apply to index/archive/blog listing pages
Review trustMostly organic
- 4.95★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.90★
- 3%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
- past spikeReview timing — up to 33% 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 · 60 total
Latest reviews · 60 analyzed
- 2024-11-23★★★★★This is a really awesome plugin, and will remain awesome updates or notbmiller22000
- 2023-12-16★★★★★I want to love it morePaul Bradley
- 2023-09-23★★★★★Excellent pluginws24
- 2023-04-11★★★★★Awesome plugin to give non admins CSS accessthessnake03
- 2023-01-18★★★★★Please updateitsmeagh
- 2021-02-09★★★★★Brilliant – shaved 75% off my page load timeKeirwatson
- 2020-09-15★★★★★Thanks! Everything you do turns to gold, Tom :)digifix
- 2020-08-24★★★★★Great, almost perfect !anonymized-15161819
- 2020-08-02★★★★★Nice pluginnayon129250
- 2020-05-19★★★★★Unused CSS Wonderchild!Jimmy Lee
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.
88
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
80
Prior 7-day baseline
68
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
116
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
+10.0%
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.
33%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
3.16
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
93%
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
4.93 → 4.95★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered