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Social Media Feather
Lightweight social buttons that nag you for five stars constantly.
HealthyGrowingPoor rating
78/100
Users appreciate the lightweight features but hate the persistent five star review prompts and recent performance regressions.
Active installs
~16,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 10k+
Rating
4.6★
506 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
+324%
Growing fast
27 → 115 installs/day
What to watch out for
- MINORverified rating is 3.97★
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 · +324% in the last year
27/day a year ago→115/day today
Reviews
what people actually saySocial Media Feather is generally praised as a lightweight, reliable, and useful plugin that adds traffic and polish, but some users report intrusive admin alerts and performance issues on newer WordPress versions.
What people like
- +Very useful for site owners×4
- +Easy to navigate
- +Lightweight and low-impact
- +Helps generate traffic between site and social networks
- +Reliable and runs quietly in the background
- +Adds polish and improves user convenience
- +Updates are infrequent and not a nuisance
- +Does not adversely affect page performance
Common complaints
- −Admin alerts cannot be dismissed and repeatedly ask for a 5-star review
- −New version causes high I/O load and slows the site on the latest WordPress release
- −Instagram icon is outdated
Review trustReviews look organic
- 3.97★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.60★
- 16%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
Not enough review history.
All-time ratings · 506 total
Latest reviews · 90 analyzed
- 2022-11-25★★★★★Sehr gut und leicht zu bedienenTine
- 2022-08-26★★★★★admin alert won't go awaygmariani405
- 2021-11-10★★★★★very usefulkaymandal
- 2021-09-23★★★★★User-friendly! Easy to install and use.aepeck77
- 2021-05-23★★★★★Just Love itbelfer70
- 2021-05-12★★★★★bomsilveira13121-shot
- 2021-05-08★★★★★Satura I/O lenta la webjosenovo
- 2021-04-27★★★★★toparwy
- 2021-04-05★★★★★very goodtan9dan
- 2021-03-17★★★★★Reliable & not too many updatesKNBDunlop
Releases
recent versions from WordPress.org SVNAlternatives to Social Media Feather
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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.
153
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
148
Prior 7-day baseline
155
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
2,337
Mean release-day peak (30d)
142
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
+3.4%
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.
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Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
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Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
70%
5★ share in analyzed sample
16%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
3.99 → 3.97★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered