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WP Responsive Menu
Quick mobile menus that might just break your entire website.
HealthyDeclining
60/100
Users like the quick setup but many report site crashes and poor support.
Active installs
~35,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 30k+
Rating
4.3★
100 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
-46%
Declining fast
152 → 82 installs/day
What to watch out for
- 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
152/day a year ago→82/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayWP Responsive Menu is a mixed-reputation plugin that many users find easy to set up and effective out of the box, but it is undermined by recurring complaints about broken sites, unresponsive support, refund difficulties, and key features locked behind the paid version.
What people like
- +Works out of the box with minimal setup required×4
- +Considered a reliable go-to among responsive menu plugins, preferred over alternatives×3
- +Admin controls and live preview are easy to use×2
- +Can restore mobile navigation to older themes that lack it
Common complaints
- −Plugin broke sites and could not be deactivated normally, requiring SFTP removal×2
- −Support is unresponsive or unhelpful when issues arise (since 3.1.3)×3
- −Refunds are difficult or ignored, requiring PayPal escalation×2
- −Basic styling options (bold, uppercase, color opacity, font settings, menu title position) are non-functional in the free version or locked behind the pro version×2
- −Caused login and registration forms to stop functioning
Review trustReviews look organic
- 4.11★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.30★
- 8%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2023-09-182025-02-092026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 100 total
Latest reviews · 90 analyzed
- 2024-11-08★★★★★Very Buggy/No Supportbluebird02191-shot
- 2024-02-25★★★★★Easy setup – it just works!LunaGraphica
- 2024-01-24★★★★★quick & polite responseYasuha.
- 2023-10-19★★★★★HelpfulSydney
- 2023-09-18★★★★★Best of the bunchshanDB
- 2022-07-13★★★★★of no usegrac_grac
- 2021-11-01★★★★★STEER CLEAR OF THIS PLUGINsteve1965uk
- 2021-07-30★★★★★Needs ImprovementXandro
- 2021-06-23★★★★★Money backkeldn
- 2021-05-05★★★★★Best Responsive Menu For WordPresssteve1965uk
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.
81
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
76
Prior 7-day baseline
74
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
94
Mean release-day peak (30d)
94
Latest day · 2026-06-03(spike)
+6.6%
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.
20%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
2.41
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
77%
5★ share in analyzed sample
8%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.18 → 4.11★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered