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Advanced Category Excluder vs GN Publisher: Google News Compatible RSS Feeds

Head-to-head on the signals that matter, from the public WordPress.org data.

GN Publisher: Google News Compatible RSS Feeds is the safest pick: health A · 90 against 41 for Advanced Category Excluder, led by lower removal risk.

Active-install trajectory

Advanced Category Excluder moved down one install band, 700+ to 600+. That's a single step across the whole window, so there's no trajectory to draw. The download trend below moves daily.

Metric Advanced Category Excluder GN Publisher: Google News Compatible RSS Feeds
Active installs Modeled from the public "N+" band and recent downloads. 600–700 20K–30K ✓
Active installs, change over ~6 months Compares the public install bands. One band step shows as the band change, not a percentage. -14% Stable ✓
Overall health D · 41 A · 90 ✓
Maintenance How recently the plugin was updated. 3/100 100/100 ✓
Rating quality Volume-adjusted review quality. 63/100 92/100 ✓
Support Share of forum threads marked resolved. 70/100 70/100
Rating (weighted for review count) 3.5★ 4.6★ ✓
Reviews 16 29 ✓
Ranking optimization How well the listing is tuned to rank on wp.org. 40/100 97/100 ✓
Removal risk Maintenance signals that precede a wp.org closure. Not an official status. High Low ✓
Last updated 13.1y ago yesterday ✓
Downloads, last 30d 216 7.4K ✓
Download momentum, last 30d vs prior 30d Dips that follow a release spike are normal: wp.org counts every update as a download, so the weeks after a release run lower. +25% -48%
Install conversion Active installs over lifetime downloads. Downloads include every update, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower. 0.2% 2.5% ✓
Category Content & Feeds Content & Feeds

✓ marks the stronger plugin on each row. Rows where they're level show no marker.

Release activity

Advanced Category ExcluderGN Publisher: Google News Compatible RSS Feeds

7-day average daily downloads. Downloads spike for about a week after each release as the install base re-downloads, so read this as release cadence, not growth.