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Tagembed Social Feeds Widget
Beautiful social feeds that might cost you more than you expected.
DecliningPoor rating
46/100
Easy setup cannot mask the broken features and serious billing complaints.
Active installs
~15,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 10k+
Rating
3.8★
58 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
-33%
Declining fast
94 → 63 installs/day
What to watch out for
- MAJORverified rating is 3.43★
- MINORdownloads down 33% 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 · -33% in the last year
94/day a year ago→63/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayTagembed is praised for its ease of setup, extensive feed options, and responsive support, but many users report broken features, poor support, billing issues, and privacy concerns.
What people like
- +Easy to install and set up×3
- +Provides many configuration options for displaying various social feeds×2
- +Responsive and helpful support team×5
- +Facilitates payment processing and refunds
- +Aggregates user-generated content and displays feeds from multiple platforms (e.g., Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn)×2
Common complaints
- −Features do not work or are unreliable×4
- −Support is unresponsive or limited to an unmonitored forum×3
- −Free version feed stops updating after the first day
- −Unauthorized billing and multiple unwanted payments
- −Technical errors such as CORS failures, net::ERR_FAILED, and fatal install errors×3
- −Privacy concerns: creates accounts without permission and makes unsolicited data requests×2
- −Fatal error on installation with WordPress 6.5.3 (since 6.5.3)
- −Messy code (excessive use of !important) and slow, difficult-to-style interface
Review trustMostly organic
- 3.43★Verified rating — drops from 3.80★ once one-shot reviewers are removed
- 48%One-shot reviewers — single-review accounts (common for popular plugins, but worth noting)
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2023-07-202025-01-102026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 58 total
Latest reviews · 58 analyzed
- 2026-06-02★★★★★Good to have for business for looking for their BRAND UGCyychen0925
- 2026-03-11★★★★★Support is asleep at the wheelthebrewroom
- 2025-11-06★★★★★Simple Configurationdanagraystudio1-shot
- 2025-08-19★★★★★Unreliable – Total Messmissydi2007
- 2025-05-28★★★★★Reliability: abysmalglamusdev1-shot
- 2024-12-05★★★★★Free version doesn't actually ‘feed'thoughton
- 2024-12-03★★★★★Several unauthorised payments taken – customer service non-existenthroebuck
- 2024-10-08★★★★★Great pluginFantou
- 2024-09-12★★★★★easy to set up, good helpdesktriptyquedesign
- 2024-08-29★★★★★twitter feed issuekittykat1-shot
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.
58
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
65
Prior 7-day baseline
43
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
271
Mean release-day peak (30d)
58
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
-10.8%
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.
12%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
1.27
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
71%
5★ share in analyzed sample
48%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
3.84 → 3.43★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered