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WPtouch – Make your WordPress Website Mobile-Friendly
One click to mobile and one click to a fatal error.
DecliningPoor rating
39/100
Frequent fatal errors and the removal of native shortcodes make this a frustrating experience.
Active installs
~55,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 50k+
Rating
3.7★
341 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
-43%
Declining fast
481 → 274 installs/day
What to watch out for
- MAJORverified rating is 3.47★
- MINORdownloads down 43% vs a year ago
- MINORnot updated in 6 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
Declining fast · -43% in the last year
481/day a year ago→274/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayWPtouch is a mobile-theme replacement plugin with a mixed-to-poor reputation, valued by some for offering a clean separate mobile experience but undermined by recurring fatal errors on activation, instability, and aggressive paywalling of basic features.
What people like
- +Provides a clean, separate mobile theme as an alternative to a fully responsive design×2
- +Support team described as friendly and relatively responsive×2
Common complaints
- −Fatal errors on activation that can lock users out of both the site and admin dashboard entirely×4
- −Long-term instability causing persistent fatal errors regardless of theme or other plugins being active×2
- −Shortcode rendering deliberately disabled in the free version as a paid upgrade incentive, despite being native WordPress functionality
- −Replaces the existing theme entirely rather than adapting it, which is not clearly communicated upfront
- −Breaks third-party functionality including Contact Form 7 and site menu systems, and leaves behind residual CSS after theme changes
- −Pro version costs $80–$160/year and users report it does not deliver meaningful improvement in actual mobile rendering×2
- −Limited customization options and poor visual results (e.g. no thumbnail support) in the free version
- −Known PHP fatal error in core plugin code (addon-theme-installer.php) reported as a programming bug
Review trustMixed — some inflation
- 3.47★Verified rating — drops from 3.70★ once one-shot reviewers are removed
- 41%One-shot reviewers — single-review accounts (common for popular plugins, but worth noting)
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2023-07-202025-01-102026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 341 total
Latest reviews · 90 analyzed
- 2026-01-05★★★★★To basic…zeerux
- 2025-09-26★★★★★Great mobile plug-indgreencr
- 2025-07-16★★★★★BEST option, beleive me!marcelonn1-shot
- 2025-03-19★★★★★Critical error displaying the web pagenjstore1-shot
- 2025-02-21★★★★★Outstanding Plugin & Exceptional Support!Mike Carcagente1-shot
- 2025-02-18★★★★★Good plugin with very good supportmatteodifelice
- 2025-02-12★★★★★Good Plugin, Great Supportbobbytram12491-shot
- 2025-01-26★★★★★Used for over 5 years- no cancellingrmjohn
- 2024-09-26★★★★★Generally good, free version breaks short codesGuss77
- 2024-08-20★★★★★Great Plugin, Support Amazing!monstry1291-shot
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.
262
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
266
Prior 7-day baseline
236
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
259
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
-1.5%
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
1.31
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
70%
5★ share in analyzed sample
41%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
3.98 → 3.47★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered