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Declining
52/100
Users enjoy the ease of use but report bugs and difficulty removing the plugin.
Active installs
~15,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 10k+
Rating
4.1★
89 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
-26%
Declining fast
34 → 25 installs/day
What to watch out for
- MINORreviews unevenly distributed over time
- MINORdownloads down 26% vs a year ago
- MINORnot updated in 10 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 · -26% in the last year
34/day a year ago→25/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayWP Latest Posts is generally praised for its ease of use, solid support, and reliable front-end display, but users frequently encounter uninstall problems, feature bugs and UI limitations that can break sites.
What people like
- +Easy to use and beginner-friendly×2
- +Responsive and error-free on desktop, tablet and phone
- +Helpful support from the developer×2
- +Provides SEO benefits
- +Considered a game-changing plugin by long-term users
Common complaints
- −Cannot uninstall the plugin×2
- −Various bugs cause site breakage or errors, especially after updates×3
- −Duplicate block feature only copies title, losing settings
- −User interface difficult for sites with large category structures
- −Pro version shows license/connection errors
- −Featured images appear blurry on the front page
- −Unable to remove post list name from front page
- −Cannot display custom post types
- −Latest update introduced undefined variable error in header
Review trustReviews look organic
- 4.06★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.10★
- 7%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 · 89 total
Latest reviews · 90 analyzed
- 2026-04-12★★★★★Won't uninstallhoreally
- 2026-04-01★★★★★you can not uninstall itbyzgl
- 2026-01-20★★★★★Block Duplication Feature not WorkingIgor Os
- 2025-09-07★★★★★Goodanimexnovel1-shot
- 2025-08-27★★★★★Great pluginmikefury
- 2025-07-14★★★★★Feels rightmkazic
- 2024-07-14★★★★★Super extentionBERNARD Cyrille
- 2024-07-12★★★★★Blurs all of the featured imagesVenutius
- 2024-04-27★★★★★Easy to usecolorbox64
- 2023-11-15★★★★★Easy to use and usefulvimpsoft
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.
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Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
29
Prior 7-day baseline
23
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
88
Mean release-day peak (30d)
24
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
-17.2%
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.
17%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
1.73
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
72%
5★ share in analyzed sample
7%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
0%
Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.12 → 4.06★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered