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Divi Carousel Free (Divi5 Support)
Beautiful carousels that might break your site in an instant.
Declining
64/100
It offers great visual options but carries a risk of breaking your site.
Active installs
~35,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 30k+
Rating
4.8★
146 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
-28%
Declining fast
208 → 150 installs/day
What to watch out for
- MINORreviews unevenly distributed over time
- MINORdownloads down 28% 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 · -28% in the last year
208/day a year ago→150/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayDivi Carousel Free is a functional carousel plugin for Divi that works well in straightforward setups, but carries a notable history of breaking compatibility with the Divi theme after updates, leaving users unable to edit pages or use core site features until the plugin is deactivated.
What people like
- +Simple to set up and use within Divi Builder×3
- +Offers a useful range of presets and configuration options
- +Produces good visual results when functioning correctly
Common complaints
- −Causes site-wide breakage on Divi 5, including broken counter boxes and background pattern glitches that only resolve on deactivation
- −Conflict with Divi theme makes it impossible to access and edit website pages, with a specific PHP fatal error reported×2
- −Plugin remained broken for multiple weeks with no developer response to support threads×2
- −Images display at random sizes despite identical dimensions, requiring manual settings correction to fix
- −Images are cropped at top and bottom when different-sized images are used with a maximum size setting, rather than scaling to max height
- −JavaScript conflict causes contact form fields to refresh the page and lose entered data
Review trustMostly organic
- 4.68★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.80★
- 18%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
- past spikeReview timing — up to 29% 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 · 146 total
Latest reviews · 90 analyzed
- 2026-03-12★★★★★Created total havoc after implementingpixelrage
- 2024-09-07★★★★★Sometimes unreliableRossMP
- 2024-05-28★★★★★Not working with different sized imagesEnwikuna
- 2024-04-29★★★★★Ha dejado de funcionar y genera conflictos con el tema Divilleveroni
- 2024-04-29★★★★★Plugin Conflicting With Divi Themealanrogers
- 2024-04-29★★★★★Not showing navigationsSebastian Jacobs
- 2023-12-21★★★★★Excelentkolumb55
- 2023-12-06★★★★★Perfectjjaaccoobboo1-shot
- 2023-10-22★★★★★Wonderful little pluginjacquijax
- 2023-10-19★★★★★Perfectrichard_wp1-shot
Releases
recent versions from WordPress.org SVNAlternatives to Divi Carousel Free (Divi5 Support)
Top Media plugins, ranked by score.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.
133
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
121
Prior 7-day baseline
98
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
1,067
Mean release-day peak (30d)
130
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
+9.9%
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.
29%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
2.08
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
89%
5★ share in analyzed sample
18%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.72 → 4.68★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered