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WPZOOM Connect: Social Icons Widget, Share Buttons & Click to Chat
Easy social connections for the casual website owner.
HealthyGrowing
91/100
Users enjoy the simple setup despite a recent bug in the icon detection feature.
Active installs
~150,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 100k+
Rating
4.9★
144 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
+73%
Growing fast
335 → 579 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 · +73% in the last year
335/day a year ago→579/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayWPZOOM Connect is generally well-regarded as a simple, easy-to-use social icons and sharing plugin, though at least one user reports a post-update regression where the "Detect Icon" feature requires excessive clicks before saving a link.
What people like
- +Easy to set up and use, even for non-technical users×5
- +Broad platform support, including less common networks like Discord
Common complaints
- −"Detect Icon" feature broken after a recent update — requires clicking more than 10 times before a link is saved
Review trustMostly organic
- 4.86★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.90★
- 13%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
2023-09-182025-02-092026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 144 total
Latest reviews · 90 analyzed
- 2026-05-19★★★★★Plugin deleteemilegutenkauf
- 2023-12-28★★★★★excellentmalemi
- 2023-08-21★★★★★Social Icons Widget & Blockcmeyers13
- 2023-03-16★★★★★Quick and easyPagecode
- 2023-03-14★★★★★UsefulRaquel Alao
- 2022-10-09★★★★★بهترینkeshvarifar
- 2022-09-22★★★★★Good plug-in!Eelke
- 2022-07-22★★★★★Useful pluginalexfaure1-shot
- 2022-05-23★★★★★Does what it says!First Stop Design
- 2022-02-17★★★★★Best so farmonkeykong
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.
635
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
487
Prior 7-day baseline
735
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
10,836
Mean release-day peak (30d)
1,190
Latest day · 2026-06-03(tail)
+30.4%
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
3.21
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
94%
5★ share in analyzed sample
13%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.88 → 4.86★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered