Ajax Load More for Advanced Custom Fields vs Advanced Custom Fields: Nav Menu Field

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

Ajax Load More for Advanced Custom Fields is the safest pick: health B · 70 against 51 for Advanced Custom Fields: Nav Menu Field, led by lower removal risk.

Ajax Load More for Advanced Custom Fields

by Darren Cooney

Health B70

Advanced Custom Fields: Nav Menu Field

by Faison

Health D51

Active-install trajectory

Advanced Custom Fields: Nav Menu Field moved down one install band, 9K+ to 8K+. That's a single step across the whole window, so there's no trajectory to draw. The download trend below moves daily.

Metric	Ajax Load More for Advanced Custom Fields	Advanced Custom Fields: Nav Menu Field
Active installs Modeled from the public "N+" band and recent downloads.	2K–3K	8K–9K ✓
Active installs, change over ~6 months Compares the public install bands. One band step shows as the band change, not a percentage.	Stable ✓	-11%
Overall health	B · 70 ✓	D · 51
Maintenance How recently the plugin was updated.	63/100 ✓	3/100
Rating quality Volume-adjusted review quality.	78/100	93/100 ✓
Support Share of forum threads marked resolved.	70/100	70/100
Rating (weighted for review count)	4.1★	4.7★ ✓
Reviews	5	33 ✓
Ranking optimization How well the listing is tuned to rank on wp.org.	76/100 ✓	45/100
Removal risk Maintenance signals that precede a wp.org closure. Not an official status.	Low ✓	High
Last updated	12mo ago ✓	8.9y ago
Downloads, last 30d	630	1.6K ✓
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.	+35%	+30%
Install conversion Active installs over lifetime downloads. Downloads include every update, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower.	4.0%	5.6% ✓
Category	Developer Tools	Developer Tools

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

Release activity

Ajax Load More for Advanced Custom FieldsAdvanced Custom Fields: Nav Menu Field

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.