66
WP Multibyte Patch
Quiet relief for Japanese character encoding headaches.
Declining
66/100
Japanese users find this utility essential despite many thin and contentless reviews.
Active installs
~1.5 million
our estimate · wp.org shows 1.0M+
Rating
5.0★
25 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
-46%
Declining fast
2,109 → 1,149 installs/day
What to watch out for
- MAJORnear-100% 5★ in bursty pattern
- MINORdownloads down 46% 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 · -46% in the last year
2,109/day a year ago→1,149/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayReview trustMostly organic
- 5.00★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 5.00★
- 12%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
- past spikeReview timing — up to 100% of all reviews landed in a single month
- 100%5★ concentration — near-perfect across only 25 reviews — not yet a proven track record
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2026-04-052026-05-052026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 25 total
Latest reviews · 25 analyzed
- 2026-03-15★★★★★Very Useful FixTammy
- 2026-03-13★★★★★Simple but UsefulKelsi
- 2022-05-04★★★★★MUST HAVE for Japanese sitesskillsharejp
- 2019-12-31★★★★★WordPress 5以降でも必須armdroid1-shot
- 2019-02-28★★★★★とりあえずで入れているnosann
- 2018-06-19★★★★★Great pluginSusumu Seino
- 2018-01-07★★★★★使わせて頂いています。itigo100
- 2017-12-24★★★★★Not badlarrysmorgan371-shot
- 2017-10-13★★★★★Thanks You!kutsu
- 2017-09-15★★★★★Great!megane9988
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.
1,149
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
1,205
Prior 7-day baseline
836
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
1,206
Mean release-day peak (30d)
1,192
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
-4.6%
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.
100%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
1.41
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
100%
5★ share in analyzed sample
12%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
5.00 → 5.00★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered