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NHS Blocks

by NHS Leadership Academy Digital Team · Blocks

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NHS styled blocks for WordPress as developed by the NHS Leadership Academy based on the NHS Digital Front-end library.

⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
83 Health · B
Maintenance 100/100
Rating quality 74/100
Support 70/100

83 health vs 67 average across 1,682 Blocks plugins

Directory ranking optimization

How it's scored →

How well this listing is tuned to rank in WordPress.org search, on the factors an owner controls. Not popularity, optimization.

72 / 100

Well optimized

Biggest win: Support resolution

Update recency 100/100
WP compatibility 100/100
Rating quality 52/100
Listing tuning 84/100
Support resolution 0/100

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Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-05 · 1,425 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+1095% vs prior 30d
11Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

1.2K

now · peak 1.6K

1.2K30d downloads · Aug 26

Directory rank vs rivals

wp.org popularity rank over time · higher is better · when a rival's line climbs above yours, they've overtaken you

NHS Blocks · #7117 you Spectra Legacy · #57 Kadence Blocks · #104 Extendify · #120

Update activity

How busy the existing users are, measured as downloads in the last 30 days for every 1,000 active sites. A spike means a new release everyone's pulling; a long, slow decline means an aging user base that updates less.

1.3Kper 1k installs · Aug 26

Release cadence

Actively maintained
from wp.org release tags

How often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.

6

releases in the last 12 months

4mo ago

latest release · v1.4.0

45

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

1.4.0 · 4mo ago1.3.25 · 4mo ago1.3.24 · 6mo ago1.3.23 · 6mo ago1.3.22 · 10mo ago1.3.21 · 11mo ago1.3.20 · 1.1y ago1.3.19 · 1.2y ago1.3.18 · 1.3y ago1.3.17 · 1.8y ago1.3.16 · 2.1y ago1.3.15 · 2.4y ago1.3.14 · 2.6y ago1.3.13 · 2.6y ago

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 93% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v1.4 93%
v1.3 7.1%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “900+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
900–1K ≈970

Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.

At the current install trend, crossing 1K+ in roughly 61 days.

Install history · since 2022-04-06 · 1,416 observations

900Installs · Aug 26

Estimated value

What this plugin might earn a year, and what it might sell for. Modeled from public signals; we don't see anyone's books.

Est. annual revenue

N/A

Est. acquisition value

N/A

No paid tier is visible, so we don't put a figure on revenue or sale value: that would be guessing. The install base is a real asset to an acquirer, just not one public data lets us price. A small install base leaves thin data to model from. The recent download trend is too spiky to read.

Details

Version
1.4.1
Last updated
26d ago
Added
2019-09-05 · 6 yrs old
Requires WP
5.0
Tested up to
6.9.7
Requires PHP
5.6

Recent reviews

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  1. Michael Turner
    6.1y ago

    This is a very useful plugin.

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  2. danielshaw
    6.4y ago

    Kudos to Tony Blacker & the NHS leadership team for making this available for us all, and their long-term commitment to doing the necessary updates. There are a lot of user-friendly blocks here that you’ll have trouble finding elsewhere.

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Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 7.0.1

Low memory footprint
Low page-speed impact
Runs on latest PHP + WP
No PHP errors
No JS errors
Activates cleanly
No resource errors
No external HTTP errors
Optimized database use
Frequently updated

Languages

via translate.wordpress.org

Translated into 2 languages, 2 at 90% or more

English (UK) 100%
Russian 100%

Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

  1. 2026-05-31 700+ → 900+ up after 567 days in tier
  2. 2024-11-10 600+ → 700+ up after 2 days in tier
  3. 2024-11-08 500+ → 600+ up after 267 days in tier
  4. 2024-02-15 400+ → 500+ up after 134 days in tier
  5. 2023-10-04 300+ → 400+ up after 157 days in tier
  6. 2023-04-30 200+ → 300+ up

Competes with

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NHS Blocks: 900+ active installs, 4.5★ (2 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-29. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/nhsblocks