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Advanced Free Shipping for WooCommerce
Complex shipping rules that might break on modern PHP.
HealthyGrowing
83/100
This plugin provides excellent conditional logic for free but suffers from PHP 8 compatibility issues.
Active installs
~45,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 40k+
Rating
4.8★
122 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
+60%
Growing fast
47 → 75 installs/day
What to watch out for
- MINORnot updated in 8 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
Growing fast · +60% in the last year
47/day a year ago→75/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayAdvanced Free Shipping for WooCommerce is well-regarded as a simple, free, and effective tool for creating conditional free shipping rules in WooCommerce, though it has known PHP 8 compatibility issues and some users find documentation lacking.
What people like
- +Handles complex conditional free shipping logic (AND/OR, product categories, countries, shipping classes) without requiring a paid upgrade×7
- +Easy to set up and configure for most users×6
- +Free, with no expensive upsell to unlock basic functionality×2
- +Works reliably even without recent updates, suggesting solid underlying code×2
Common complaints
- −Not compatible with PHP 8 — reported to produce multiple errors (since php 8)
- −Documentation is sparse, leaving some users unable to get the plugin working at all
- −Address field display order cannot be customized (e.g. country-first for RTL/non-English sites)
- −No built-in way to disable specific payment methods (e.g. PayPal) when free shipping is active
Review trustMostly organic
- 4.76★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.80★
- 4%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
- past spikeReview timing — up to 50% of all reviews landed in a single month
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2023-08-192025-01-102026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 122 total
Latest reviews · 90 analyzed
- 2024-03-18★★★★★Great Plugin and VERY Effective!!!ferero
- 2023-08-08★★★★★Amazing plugindavidsilveria
- 2023-05-30★★★★★how to rtl shipping addressbehnamkit
- 2023-01-14★★★★★Not Supporting php 8 there is lots of error.Abhay
- 2023-01-04★★★★★Great plugintemeteron1987
- 2022-12-12★★★★★Works great, nice and simple409industries
- 2022-12-10★★★★★THANK YOUemlystp
- 2022-10-02★★★★★Extremely completeegocefalo
- 2022-08-31★★★★★Does not appear to work at all/lacking documentationpatrickhs
- 2022-04-05★★★★★Great pluginprmg
Releases
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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.
69
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
80
Prior 7-day baseline
49
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
69
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
-13.8%
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.
50%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
4.06
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
93%
5★ share in analyzed sample
4%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.77 → 4.76★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered