73
Hubbub Lite – Fast, free social sharing and follow buttons
Friendly support helps when your rich snippets vanish.
HealthyDeclining
73/100
Excellent support and easy setup are offset by performance concerns and occasional feature bugs.
Active installs
~35,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 30k+
Rating
4.7★
172 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
-48%
Declining fast
172 → 90 installs/day
What to watch out for
- MINORdownloads down 48% 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 · -48% in the last year
172/day a year ago→90/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayHubbub Lite (formerly Social Pug) is generally well-regarded as a capable, easy-to-use social sharing plugin with standout support, but recurring complaints about performance impact, a broken Gutenberg feature, and a damaging rich-snippet bug give meaningful pause.
What people like
- +Easy to set up and covers social sharing, social follow, and Pinterest overlays in one plugin×3
- +Useful share-count column on the posts list page for quickly identifying top-shared content
- +Supports migrating/recovering share counts when changing domains
- +Customer support praised as fast and thorough, including weekend responses×3
Common complaints
- −An update broke rich snippets, causing recipe star ratings to disappear from Google search results and resulting in significant traffic/revenue loss
- −Loads scripts and styles on all pages rather than only on posts, causing measurable page speed drops
- −Click to Tweet feature advertised on the Pro sales page does not work with the Gutenberg editor
- −Plugin places its admin menu item very high in the WordPress dashboard menu by default, above more important items
- −Compatibility issues reported with bbPress, with no resolution provided
- −Shortcode functionality reported as non-functional by at least one user
Review trustMostly organic
- 4.55★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.70★
- 17%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
2024-10-122025-08-082026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 172 total
Latest reviews · 90 analyzed
- 2025-09-24★★★★★Works finRenan Rosa Meneguci
- 2024-12-07★★★★★Grow social by MediavineJulio Alberto Salgado Alvarez
- 2024-09-23★★★★★Awesome!MorphMan
- 2020-12-03★★★★★nice plugin, responsive supporttypeless
- 2020-07-14★★★★★BEWARE!The Endless Meal
- 2020-05-06★★★★★Slows down website from 96 to 88/100radojica
- 2020-01-15★★★★★Poor move to prioritize plugin so highly in menujohnmontfx
- 2019-12-12★★★★★Parfait !kultureweb1-shot
- 2019-10-27★★★★★PerfectMehadi Hasan Juber
- 2019-09-23★★★★★It's great for domain changes and everything!natethenomad
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.
90
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
89
Prior 7-day baseline
77
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
150
Mean release-day peak (30d)
87
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
+1.1%
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
2.45
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
87%
5★ share in analyzed sample
17%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.62 → 4.55★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered