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User Frontend: AI Powered Frontend Posting, User Directory, Profile, Membership & User Registration
Great frontend forms that occasionally break your entire site.
HealthyGrowingPoor rating
67/100
Many users enjoy the features but critical updates frequently break core functionality and support is inconsistent.
Active installs
~27,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 20k+
Rating
4.1★
532 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
+9%
Growing
270 → 294 installs/day
What to watch out for
- MINORverified rating is 3.70★
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 · +9% in the last year
270/day a year ago→294/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayWP User Frontend is a capable and feature-rich frontend posting and form plugin that many users find easy to set up and well-supported, but it has a notable reputation for breaking core functionality after major updates with slow or unresolved support for those affected.
What people like
- +Generally easy to set up and use for building frontend forms×4
- +Support staff (specifically named agent) praised for being quick and helpful×3
- +Feature-rich with deep WordPress customization capabilities×2
- +Works well alongside other plugins
Common complaints
- −A major update broke core functionality across multiple sites, including login redirects, post submission forms, and registration forms, with no resolution after over a month of support
- −Settings page fails to load on multiple browsers (Chrome, Opera, Firefox), making basic configuration impossible
- −Forms list displays as empty despite correct form count, rendering the plugin unusable
- −Plugin simply did not work for some users' intended use case (frontend posting)
- −Support unresponsive for some users reporting critical bugs×2
Review trustReviews look organic
- 3.70★Verified rating — drops from 4.10★ once one-shot reviewers are removed
- 23%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2023-07-202025-01-102026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 532 total
Latest reviews · 90 analyzed
- 2026-05-02★★★★★werkt zoals het hoortartline4media
- 2026-03-27★★★★★Great pluginKnorden
- 2026-01-20★★★★★Update ruined this plugin for medhregular
- 2025-09-03★★★★★Quick and Good Supportiiken1-shot
- 2025-09-01★★★★★NEVER NEVER recommenddoqsa
- 2025-06-27★★★★★Great Productdtbcinci
- 2025-06-25★★★★★Amazing Plugin!aruss
- 2025-06-20★★★★★Top support from Md. Tanvir Chowdhurjaneyeo1-shot
- 2025-06-13★★★★★Perfect supportFannyV
- 2025-05-26★★★★★New version works really well.Earl_D
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.
266
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
313
Prior 7-day baseline
270
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
3,500
Mean release-day peak (30d)
256
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
-15.0%
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
1.10
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
66%
5★ share in analyzed sample
23%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
-50%
Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
3.87 → 3.70★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered