54
Starter Templates & Sites Pack by ThemeGrill
Instant website building with a side of historical security scares.
Declining
54/100
The easy setup process is great but a history of security flaws and hollow reviews makes the rating questionable.
Active installs
~75,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 70k+
Rating
4.7★
197 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
-24%
Declining
548 → 417 installs/day
What to watch out for
- MAJORnear-100% 5★ in bursty pattern
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 · -24% in the last year
548/day a year ago→417/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayReview trustMostly organic
- 4.85★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.70★
- 42%One-shot reviewers — single-review accounts (common for popular plugins, but worth noting)
- past spikeReview timing — up to 100% of all reviews landed in a single month
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2024-01-162025-04-102026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 197 total
Latest reviews · 90 analyzed
- 2024-01-14★★★★★Superb ServiceMhrTheme
- 2022-02-05★★★★★excellentmuhammadaqib441-shot
- 2021-03-15★★★★★Easy to useSommersJeff
- 2021-03-08★★★★★ThemeGrillKovalski31
- 2021-03-08★★★★★DANGER!!!untiocualquiera
- 2021-01-27★★★★★Clean, sleek and easy to usemarcusrodrigues1-shot
- 2021-01-25★★★★★Buen temaoverallsoft201-shot
- 2021-01-15★★★★★Goodnovaandriana
- 2021-01-15★★★★★Easy to use and does the job!Caleb
- 2021-01-15★★★★★love itmikenorman
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.
308
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
303
Prior 7-day baseline
258
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
328
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
+1.7%
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.
100%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
5.39
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
98%
5★ share in analyzed sample
42%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.91 → 4.85★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered