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WP Menu Icons
Simple menu magic that hits a wall once you want more icons.
HealthyDeclining
80/100
Users appreciate the simplicity but often find the free version too limited.
Active installs
~25,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 20k+
Rating
4.9★
138 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
-28%
Declining fast
145 → 105 installs/day
What to watch out for
- 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
145/day a year ago→105/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayWP Menu Icons is generally well-regarded as a simple, effective plugin for adding icons to WordPress menus, though the free version is notably limited to only a couple of icon libraries.
What people like
- +Easy to use and works as advertised with no reported conflicts×5
- +Improves the visual appearance and usability of navigation menus×3
- +Offers a good variety of icon choices, noted as broader than some competing plugins
Common complaints
- −Free version is limited to only Dashicons and Font Awesome; other icon libraries are not available without upgrading
Review trustReviews look organic
- 4.91★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.90★
- 16%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 · 138 total
Latest reviews · 90 analyzed
- 2025-09-25★★★★★Virly a great pluginkoenig4712
- 2025-09-23★★★★★WP Menu Icons pluginJzD
- 2025-08-27★★★★★Works Beautifully!Illumin
- 2025-08-17★★★★★Nicetritigi1-shot
- 2025-06-29★★★★★Solid little plugin which works as expectedbitterpil
- 2025-06-25★★★★★coolnetcreator3
- 2025-05-26★★★★★MUITO BOA A PARADA, VAI MESMOnandusyoung
- 2025-04-05★★★★★Works well!Standard Fire Safety
- 2025-02-13★★★★★Simple to Usewebauthorings
- 2025-01-21★★★★★Excellent tool.joekamau
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.
105
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
113
Prior 7-day baseline
82
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
407
Mean release-day peak (30d)
92
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
-7.1%
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.
13%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
1.29
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
92%
5★ share in analyzed sample
16%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
-100%
Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.91 → 4.91★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered