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ALD – Dropshipping and Fulfillment for AliExpress and WooCommerce
Import your products fast while your affiliate commissions vanish into thin air.
DecliningPoor rating
46/100
The plugin simplifies imports but causes server instability and uses an extension that intercepts affiliate earnings.
Active installs
~15,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 10k+
Rating
3.7★
138 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
-35%
Declining fast
93 → 60 installs/day
What to watch out for
- MAJORverified rating is 3.31★
- MINORdownloads down 35% 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 · -35% in the last year
93/day a year ago→60/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayALD is viewed as a useful but unreliable dropshipping tool that simplifies product import and editing, yet many users report critical bugs, performance issues, and problematic affiliate practices.
What people like
- +simplifies product import and editing with few clicks×2
Common complaints
- −requires a Chrome extension that adds an affiliate link, which users say steals their commissions×2
- −causes high server load, CPU spikes, and possible memory leaks, making sites slow or unstable×3
- −product specifications are not loaded correctly, preventing purchases
- −product variation images are not imported, forcing manual uploads
- −product descriptions are often missing after import
- −shipping methods are not displayed on either frontend or backend
- −imports often contain incorrect variations, prices, or stock levels
- −plugin works intermittently and updates are infrequent, leading to unreliable performance×2
- −new versions may block imports and support pushes users toward the premium version
- −fatal errors can crash the site, requiring deactivation of the plugin
- −import list shows product counts but does not display the actual imported products
Review trustReviews look organic
- 3.31★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 3.70★
- 24%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2023-07-202025-01-102026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 138 total
Latest reviews · 90 analyzed
- 2025-09-26★★★★★it needs a lot of workelprofessore
- 2025-07-31★★★★★BEWARE, SCAM!!mennoworp1-shot
- 2025-04-05★★★★★Chrome extension steals your affiliatesergi69
- 2024-12-09★★★★★No product images loadedhummydummy1-shot
- 2024-10-23★★★★★No shipping methods visiblemike86317
- 2024-09-26★★★★★Performance Issues with ALD Plugincakebakerglobal
- 2024-09-14★★★★★Often fake product datawp7474
- 2024-08-13★★★★★Not stable workmike5801-shot
- 2024-07-24★★★★★Plugin doesn't worksashamain1
- 2024-06-17★★★★★Very easyalizaeventov
Releases
recent versions from WordPress.org SVNNo release history available.
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For 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.
54
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
49
Prior 7-day baseline
47
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
61
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
+10.2%
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.
11%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
1.29
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
54%
5★ share in analyzed sample
24%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
3.26 → 3.31★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered