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Iptanus File Upload
Plenty of features but the support is a total ghost town.
HealthyGrowing
72/100
Users appreciate the feature set but report frequent upload failures and poor support.
Active installs
~15,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 10k+
Rating
4.4★
118 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
+2150%
Growing fast
3 → 68 installs/day
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 · +2150% in the last year
3/day a year ago→68/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayIptanus File Upload is generally praised for its simplicity and rich feature set, but users frequently encounter unresponsive support and upload failures, with many noting that essential functions often require a paid upgrade.
What people like
- +Simple and effective, easy to use
- +Feature-rich, offering many capabilities even in the free version×2
Common complaints
- −Support is unresponsive or fails to reply to inquiries×3
- −File uploads frequently fail or are rejected, including inability to upload to specified paths×3
- −Basic functionality such as quarantine or file acceptance requires a paid upgrade
- −Incompatible with some other plugins, e.g., Elementor
- −Documentation is scattered and hard to follow
- −Hardcoded inline CSS in template files, considered poor practice
- −Design glitches observed in the plugin interface
- −Missing features such as saving upload links with Gravity Forms entries and exporting file lists
Review trustMostly organic
- 4.44★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.40★
- 10%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
- past spikeReview timing — up to 25% of all reviews landed in a single month
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2023-09-182025-02-092026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 118 total
Latest reviews · 90 analyzed
- 2026-01-25★★★★★top love itMoveksdizajn
- 2025-01-24★★★★★Anyone at home?Hanno
- 2025-01-23★★★★★Doesnt work – rejects all files, only solution is to upgrade to Premiumlaurendev1-shot
- 2024-05-15★★★★★Very great plugin! many thanksrevayatejahad
- 2024-01-16★★★★★Works like a charmhumananimal
- 2023-11-07★★★★★Excellent plugin, great support!Marcel
- 2023-09-01★★★★★Top !LaurentAnimage
- 2023-08-27★★★★★Absolute masterpiece of a pluginkwekli1-shot
- 2022-11-17★★★★★Just brilliantqrmiz
- 2022-09-01★★★★★Good, simple, effective!Anthony-French
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.
60
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
69
Prior 7-day baseline
56
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
206
Mean release-day peak (30d)
55
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
-13.0%
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.
25%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
2.32
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
82%
5★ share in analyzed sample
10%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.44 → 4.44★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered