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WP-Paginate
A small utility that handles basic navigation with ease.
HealthyDeclining
82/100
Users appreciate the lightweight design and CSS flexibility despite some minor placement issues.
Active installs
~25,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 20k+
Rating
4.6★
107 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
-35%
Declining fast
65 → 42 installs/day
What to watch out for
- MINORdownloads down 35% 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 · -35% in the last year
65/day a year ago→42/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayWP-Paginate is a well-regarded, lightweight pagination plugin praised for its ease of setup and CSS customizability, with only isolated complaints about placement behavior.
What people like
- +Easy to install and configure×6
- +Highly customizable appearance via CSS×4
- +Works well across many themes and is responsive on mobile×3
- +Supports pagination for both posts and comments, reducing need for additional plugins×2
- +Responsive support forum with helpful replies
- +Low resource consumption and compatible with modern WordPress versions
Common complaints
- −Pagination displayed in the middle of posts rather than at the end in at least one case
- −Lacks some advanced options such as direct page-jump input or more flexible styling controls
- −No Spanish (and possibly other) translations available
Review trustMostly organic
- 4.73★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.60★
- 7%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
- past spikeReview timing — up to 29% of all reviews landed in a single month
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2023-11-172025-03-112026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 107 total
Latest reviews · 90 analyzed
- 2025-09-22★★★★★WP-Paginateamlakmahkar
- 2025-07-25★★★★★Works perfectlymarkbarrettca
- 2025-07-21★★★★★Очень хороший плагин!alexandr038
- 2024-06-29★★★★★the best oneruslancho
- 2024-05-17★★★★★Works greathappynaturaldog
- 2023-12-20★★★★★Quick and easyNavone Juan
- 2023-11-02★★★★★Very goodbeitsiach
- 2023-02-24★★★★★Easy and perfectjumborex
- 2023-02-19★★★★★Works great!Anonymous User 18187419
- 2023-02-14★★★★★It looks sooooo much better!nealumphred
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.
39
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
43
Prior 7-day baseline
172
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
2,124
Mean release-day peak (30d)
176
Latest day · 2026-06-03(spike)
-9.3%
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.
29%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
2.21
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
89%
5★ share in analyzed sample
7%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
-100%
Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.73 → 4.73★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered