79
RSS Aggregator – RSS Import, News Feeds, Feed to Post, and Autoblogging
Stellar support helps offset the sting of a buggy version five update.
HealthyGrowing
79/100
Exceptional support helps many users but the recent version five update broke critical features for some paid subscribers.
Active installs
~92,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 40k+
Rating
4.5★
556 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
+33%
Growing fast
182 → 242 installs/day
What to watch out for
- MINORreview volume down 65% vs prior 6mo
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 · +33% in the last year
182/day a year ago→242/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayRSS Aggregator is a well-regarded feed management plugin with a strong reputation for responsive, hands-on support, though its major v5 rebuild introduced regressions that have left some paid users with broken functionality for months without resolution.
What people like
- +Support team is consistently praised as fast, responsive, and persistent in resolving issues×10
- +Plugin works reliably and as advertised for RSS feed aggregation and autoblogging×6
- +Support team will log into users' WP backends directly to resolve difficult issues×2
- +V5 upgrade seen as an improvement by some long-term users
Common complaints
- −The v5 rebuild broke existing functionality for some users, with at least one forced to downgrade to v4 (since 5)×2
- −Premium licence key repeatedly resets/forgets itself, breaking automations (since 5)
- −Known bugs (e.g. filtering by XML attributes) remain unresolved for months with no clear fix timeline (since 5)
- −Not free — full functionality requires a paid plan
Review trustReviews look organic
- 4.49★Verified rating — drops from 4.50★ once one-shot reviewers are removed
- 21%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 · 556 total
Latest reviews · 90 analyzed
- 2026-04-30★★★★★Flexible, dependable, good customer supportwhatsupmf
- 2026-04-09★★★★★Great plugin and supportemswpuser
- 2026-03-16★★★★★total disastersebastianlm
- 2026-02-09★★★★★Love V5, 2nd to none supportart137
- 2026-01-30★★★★★Simply the Bestnamynahuj
- 2025-12-16★★★★★Fantastic Support and Pluginshaunmehr
- 2025-10-20★★★★★Great pluginbaziyants
- 2025-10-07★★★★★Outstanding support!ilgizzo1-shot
- 2025-10-07★★★★★Amazing support and development team !Timama
- 2025-10-02★★★★★Just incredibledicky777
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.
254
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
216
Prior 7-day baseline
257
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
14,193
Mean release-day peak (30d)
618
Latest day · 2026-06-03(spike)
+17.6%
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.
13%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
0.99
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
89%
5★ share in analyzed sample
21%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
-65%
Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.59 → 4.49★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered