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WP Recipe Maker
The secret sauce for food bloggers who want perfect search results.
HealthyGrowing
93/100
The plugin offers great SEO and support despite some thin recent reviews.
Active installs
~180,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 50k+
Rating
5.0★
349 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
+70%
Growing fast
204 → 346 installs/day
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
Growing fast · +70% in the last year
204/day a year ago→346/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayWP Recipe Maker is widely regarded as a top-tier recipe plugin for food bloggers, praised for its flexibility, SEO capabilities, and responsive support, with only minor usability friction noted by a small number of users.
What people like
- +Highly customizable design — users can adapt colors, layouts, and display to match their site×4
- +Feature-rich and complete, covering ingredient lists, nutrition data, nutrition labels, and printer-friendly formats×5
- +Strong SEO and structured data integration, with users reporting improved Google performance and rich snippets×2
- +Fast, knowledgeable, and genuinely helpful support team×7
- +Stable, regularly updated, and suitable for both beginners and advanced users×3
- +Pairs well with other plugins such as WP Ultimate Post Grid
Common complaints
- −Recipes may not display as expected depending on the active theme or other installed plugins, requiring additional troubleshooting
- −Some terminology (e.g. 'Method' vs. 'Directions') may not be easily relabeled out of the box
Review trustMostly organic
- 4.94★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 5.00★
- 30%One-shot reviewers — single-review accounts (common for popular plugins, but worth noting)
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2023-07-202025-01-102026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 349 total
Latest reviews · 90 analyzed
- 2026-01-15★★★★★Excellent Support!!JBwebdes
- 2026-01-15★★★★★Fantastic software!Hauzz
- 2025-12-29★★★★★Easy to adaptbagvrk
- 2025-11-27★★★★★The best recipe pluginritapalopoli
- 2025-10-22★★★★★Best recipe plugin and best support!Jacob_26
- 2025-10-15★★★★★Amazing Tool With Even Better Support!entirelyemmy1-shot
- 2025-10-03★★★★★The Best!savoryexperiments
- 2025-09-08★★★★★Visually Pleasing and Functional Pluginolisimoes
- 2025-08-26★★★★★I love the productddonadio
- 2025-06-22★★★★★Perfectplantbasedredhead
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.
298
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
283
Prior 7-day baseline
630
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
18,341
Mean release-day peak (30d)
543
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
+5.3%
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.
11%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
0.88
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
99%
5★ share in analyzed sample
30%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
-57%
Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.96 → 4.94★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered