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WPS Menu Exporter
It exports your menus and a heavy suitcase of ads too.
Poor rating
56/100
The plugin works for menus but suffers from intrusive ads and unexpected content bloat.
Active installs
~15,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 10k+
Rating
3.7★
44 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
+1%
Holding steady
44 → 45 installs/day
What to watch out for
- MINORverified rating is 3.60★
- MINORnot updated in 12 months
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
Holding steady · +1% in the last year
44/day a year ago→45/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayWPS Menu Exporter is generally praised for reliably exporting and importing navigation menus, but users repeatedly complain about intrusive ads and the plugin exporting far more content than intended.
What people like
- +Exports and imports navigation menus reliably when used correctly×5
- +Simple and straightforward to use×2
Common complaints
- −Excessive, non-dismissable ads clutter the admin UI and feel unprofessional×5
- −A recent update added a non-removable spam advertisement for WP Boutik×2
- −Exports all site content (pages, posts, CPTs) instead of only menus, causing bloat and duplicate menu items×6
- −Lack of documentation or clear instructions
- −Incompatible with PHP 8, requiring PHP 7.4
- −Performance slowdown in the admin dashboard due to ads
- −Banner ads are not WCAG compliant and cannot be dismissed
Review trustMostly organic
- 3.60★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 3.70★
- 7%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
- past spikeReview timing — up to 67% of all reviews landed in a single month
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2023-07-202025-01-102026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 44 total
Latest reviews · 45 analyzed
- 2025-03-03★★★★★ads – giant file full of unknown CRAPrapidasia
- 2024-06-10★★★★★Rain of ads.Ahmed Ragab
- 2024-06-10★★★★★Works. But plugin developers advertise unrelated products unfairly on dashboard.Steven Ryan
- 2024-06-10★★★★★Latest update adds spam top of every admin screen.Chad Bush
- 2024-06-10★★★★★disabled when you added the wpboutiq spamgreghl
- 2024-05-24★★★★★nicermaawn1-shot
- 2024-05-23★★★★★Worked great for me!alibear0
- 2024-04-03★★★★★Messed up all my menusevanltd
- 2023-07-13★★★★★Exported loads of unwanted content tooMartin Koss
- 2023-03-28★★★★★Exports ALL your content and postsjamesfawcett
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.
47
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
43
Prior 7-day baseline
30
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
69
Mean release-day peak (30d)
50
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
+9.3%
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.
67%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
4.04
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
64%
5★ share in analyzed sample
7%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
3.69 → 3.60★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered