78
WP Maintenance
A lightweight curtain for your website during construction.
Declining
78/100
Users enjoy the lightweight customization despite one report of site breakage on uninstall.
Active installs
~55,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 50k+
Rating
4.7★
98 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
-37%
Declining fast
415 → 261 installs/day
What to watch out for
- MINORreviews unevenly distributed over time
- MINORdownloads down 37% 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 · -37% in the last year
415/day a year ago→261/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayWP Maintenance is well-regarded as a lightweight, free, and highly customizable maintenance plugin, though a critical report of site breakage on uninstall and a complaint about unresponsive support are notable caveats.
What people like
- +Lightweight and straightforward to use with no unnecessary bloat×5
- +Highly customizable with many options×4
- +Free to use
- +IP recognition feature valued by users
Common complaints
- −Uninstalling the plugin reportedly broke a user's site after extensive customization
- −No support response when issues arise
- −Minor UI/UX and wording issues in the options panel (e.g. confusing admin bar toggle logic, incorrect translation)
- −Missing Bluesky social network option despite 16 other networks being listed
- −No built-in way to position elements (logo, image) on the page without editing CSS
- −A broken link to the Honeypot explanation file
Review trustReviews look organic
- 4.73★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.70★
- 12%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 · 98 total
Latest reviews · 90 analyzed
- 2026-02-15★★★★★Excellent and simple – does what it needs to doDingoBlue
- 2025-11-13★★★★★excellent and simplegregoire1974
- 2025-09-14★★★★★Great Plugin. Minor omissionebrabich2
- 2025-09-11★★★★★Use with caution and at your own risk – can break your siteJohn Bradfield
- 2025-07-29★★★★★Small and usefulmailchef
- 2025-06-09★★★★★Fantastic plugin!Betty_
- 2025-03-02★★★★★Excellent !lpp30
- 2025-02-23★★★★★Tip Top Plugindingonobru
- 2024-12-14★★★★★No Support!maraschommer1-shot
- 2024-07-06★★★★★Great pluginbenny54
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.
256
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
232
Prior 7-day baseline
150
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
256
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
+10.3%
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
1.53
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
89%
5★ share in analyzed sample
12%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
-75%
Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.71 → 4.73★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered