50
50/100
Easy setup is offset by a tiny free tier and reports of billing disputes.
Active installs
~25,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 20k+
Rating
4.2★
25 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
-60%
Declining fast
332 → 134 installs/day
What to watch out for
- MINORdownloads down 60% vs a year ago
- MINORnot updated in 9 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 fast · -60% in the last year
332/day a year ago→134/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayTrustedSite is a trust-badge and site-verification plugin that users find easy to set up, but it carries serious caveats around a very low free-tier pageview cap, billing disputes, and occasional technical failures.
What people like
- +Easy to install and set up×4
- +Adds a visible trust/safety signal to the site×3
- +Free tier is functional for basic use×2
Common complaints
- −Free plan capped at 500 pageviews per month, which users find too restrictive even for small sites
- −Continued billing after cancellation, with users reporting charges of $75/month for months after disconnecting
- −Critical bug where clicking 'Add Site' triggers an endless loading loop, forcing plugin removal to restore site functionality
- −No support for international domain characters (e.g. ñ or punycode), unresolved for over a year despite repeated requests
Review trustMostly organic
- 4.09★Verified rating — drops from 4.20★ once one-shot reviewers are removed
- 12%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
- past spikeReview timing — up to 40% of all reviews landed in a single month
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2023-10-182025-02-092026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 25 total
Latest reviews · 25 analyzed
- 2024-04-16★★★★★Excellent “trust card” for visitors of a non-profit educational webpageRafael
- 2024-03-22★★★★★Make Sure Your Visitors Trust Your Sitetedkaiser1-shot
- 2023-11-03★★★★★Great plug-inLuis Roberto Coto Hernandez
- 2023-10-15★★★★★500 pageviews per month is ridiculouszepolo
- 2023-10-02★★★★★TrustedSitesdnuk
- 2023-05-12★★★★★Great Toolmatthew06
- 2023-03-21★★★★★Doesn't workwebplex
- 2023-02-17★★★★★This seal/badge is awesome and really helpful.Luis Andre Munoz1-shot
- 2022-07-11★★★★★Fantastic pluginRuddernation Designs
- 2022-03-18★★★★★Excelente Pluginyantal
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.
129
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
128
Prior 7-day baseline
120
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
186
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
+0.8%
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.
40%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
2.87
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
80%
5★ share in analyzed sample
12%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.20 → 4.09★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered