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SiteOrigin Widgets Bundle
The reliable toolkit that keeps your site busy with frequent updates.
HealthyDeclining
85/100
Users love the deep widget library and stellar support despite some update friction.
Active installs
~450,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 400k+
Rating
4.9★
134 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
-32%
Declining fast
3,027 → 2,069 installs/day
What to watch out for
- MINORdownloads down 32% 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 · -32% in the last year
3,027/day a year ago→2,069/day today
Reviews
what people actually saySiteOrigin Widgets Bundle is a well-regarded, long-standing page builder extension that users trust for its reliability and breadth of widgets, with standout support frequently praised, though occasional compatibility issues and update frequency draw some criticism.
What people like
- +Support is consistently praised as fast, thorough, and responsive — even for free users×7
- +Extends Page Builder with powerful, flexible widgets that are accessible to non-developers×5
- +Reliable and stable over long-term use×4
- +Specific widgets (e.g. post loop widget) are highlighted as particularly useful
Common complaints
- −Excessive update frequency makes it harder to keep sites maintained
- −Heavy widget use without caching can cause page slowdowns and hangs
- −Conflict with Elementor reported after a recent update, breaking coexistence on the same site
- −A button styling regression (buttons losing shape and shrinking) was reported after an update
Review trustReviews look organic
- 4.93★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.90★
- 10%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 · 134 total
Latest reviews · 90 analyzed
- 2025-04-11★★★★★Amazing Support – Great Toolsprellyan1
- 2025-01-14★★★★★Site Origin Five Star Reviewjaywren
- 2024-05-20★★★★★Bad update 1.61.0 – May 19, 2024jimaul
- 2024-03-24★★★★★Works well but too many updatespaulstenning
- 2024-02-13★★★★★A very well supported pluginfirefighter
- 2022-12-20★★★★★One of the best supported pluginsSparen
- 2022-09-17★★★★★The best page builder plugin!Monica Haught
- 2022-03-31★★★★★SiteOrigin Fanboy for the Widgets Bundle TooRichard Gates
- 2022-03-10★★★★★Act Now. Their Technology and Customer Support are the BESTcbabrun
- 2022-02-16★★★★★Outstanding functionality, great supporthtrex
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.
2,815
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
1,853
Prior 7-day baseline
2,701
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
51,921
Mean release-day peak (30d)
2,463
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
+51.9%
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.
20%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
2.19
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
94%
5★ share in analyzed sample
10%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.92 → 4.93★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered