75
The Paste
A tiny productivity boost that makes pasting feel like magic.
HealthyDeclining
75/100
Users find this tool essential for speeding up media workflows and the ratings seem genuine.
Active installs
~15,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 10k+
Rating
4.8★
35 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
-18%
Declining
28 → 23 installs/day
What to watch out for
- MINORnot updated in 6 months
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 · -18% in the last year
28/day a year ago→23/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayThe Paste is widely praised as a fast, reliable way to copy-paste images into WordPress, though a few users report occasional UI glitches and one case of it no longer working.
What people like
- +Significant time savings by allowing direct copy-paste of images×8
- +Intuitive interface and seamless integration with WordPress
- +Improves workflow speed, e.g., faster image cropping and upload×2
- +Provides automatic image naming that can aid SEO
- +Stable operation with no reported crashes or conflicts×2
Common complaints
- −Plugin stopped working for at least one user
- −Navigation glitch between Media Library and Copy & Paste tabs requires extra clicks
- −Requires using the media dialog to paste images, adding an extra step
Review trustReviews look organic
- 4.80★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.80★
- 14%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2023-09-182025-02-092026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 35 total
Latest reviews · 35 analyzed
- 2026-03-03★★★★★AmazingSunny
- 2025-07-15★★★★★Incredibly Useful and a Huge Time-Saver!giuseppegb
- 2024-08-23★★★★★Very helpful and practicalhakhakop
- 2024-03-04★★★★★OMG what a smart time saver is this !!sourixx
- 2023-12-28★★★★★Absolutely awesome pluginPHAM HA REAL1-shot
- 2023-10-16★★★★★A really great plugin!Losmi
- 2023-09-03★★★★★Works as described.mshfyi
- 2023-05-19★★★★★Works great! Never caused a problemChristineB
- 2023-02-23★★★★★Super!!jofer
- 2022-12-23★★★★★MaravillosoYorsh
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.
25
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
22
Prior 7-day baseline
16
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
16
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
+13.6%
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.
14%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
1.96
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
91%
5★ share in analyzed sample
14%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.83 → 4.80★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered