74
Great for local dev but a gamble for live sites.
HealthyGrowing
74/100
The plugin offers useful compilation features but suffers from unstable updates and poor maintenance.
Active installs
~45,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 40k+
Rating
4.3★
61 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
+183%
Growing fast
41 → 116 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 · +183% in the last year
41/day a year ago→116/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayWP-SCSS is appreciated for making SCSS compilation easy in WordPress development, but its reputation is significantly undermined by a recurring pattern of updates breaking live sites, slow developer response, and unreliable compilation behavior.
What people like
- +Auto-compiles SCSS to CSS with minimal setup, requiring only two directory paths to get started×4
- +Supports compressed CSS output and source maps
- +Can display compilation errors on-site for logged-in users only
- +Generally works well and simplifies development workflow when stable×3
Common complaints
- −Updates have repeatedly broken live/client sites, requiring manual rollbacks or workarounds×5
- −Developer response to critical breakage is slow×2
- −The 'always recompile' setting causes catastrophic failure×2
- −Settings (e.g. auto-enqueue, always recompile) do not save or take effect reliably×2
- −Plugin provides no error output or logs when compilation fails, making debugging impossible×2
- −Plugin behavior changes when copying environments (e.g. staging to dev), causing critical errors that cannot be overwritten
- −One user reports the plugin may be associated with a site security/spam injection issue
- −No support available; support threads are closed without resolution×2
- −Does not support Sass indented syntax (only SCSS syntax)
Review trustMostly organic
- 4.32★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.30★
- 8%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
- past spikeReview timing — up to 100% of all reviews landed in a single month
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2024-09-122025-08-082026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 61 total
Latest reviews · 61 analyzed
- 2024-08-17★★★★★Doent do anythingrhavin0
- 2022-12-15★★★★★Latest update breaks the site – but here is the fix!abda53
- 2022-12-15★★★★★Breaking updatesbaskuipers
- 2022-12-15★★★★★Great, when it's not breaking the siteJames W
- 2022-12-15★★★★★Very Useful plugin but maybe not well maintainedstormhill
- 2022-12-15★★★★★DO NOT USE THIS PLUGINwagonmonster
- 2022-01-01★★★★★Plugin doesn't work, doesn't give any errorsFrogDesk Strategy
- 2021-12-27★★★★★Unstablegwberto
- 2021-12-12★★★★★1 Minor Issue, 1 Enhancement Request, but still 5 starsimincognito
- 2021-10-19★★★★★Broken, not regularly updatedkvangorden
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.
112
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
115
Prior 7-day baseline
69
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
171
Mean release-day peak (30d)
130
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
-2.6%
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
4.58
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
79%
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
4.31 → 4.32★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered