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Apollo Bar vs Welcome Bar

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

Apollo Bar is the only plugin here with enough reviews to score.

Active-install trajectory

Welcome Bar moved down one install band, 20+ to 10+. That's a single step across the whole window, so there's no trajectory to draw. The download trend below moves daily.

Metric	Apollo Bar	Welcome Bar
Active installs Modeled from the public "N+" band and recent downloads.	10–20	10–20
Active installs, change over ~6 months Compares the public install bands. One band step shows as the band change, not a percentage.	Stable ✓	-50%
Overall health	D · 46 ✓	—
Maintenance How recently the plugin was updated.	3/100	99/100 ✓
Rating quality Volume-adjusted review quality.	78/100 ✓	—
Support Share of forum threads marked resolved.	70/100 ✓	—
Rating (weighted for review count)	4.1★ ✓	—
Reviews	4 ✓	0
Ranking optimization How well the listing is tuned to rank on wp.org.	37/100	88/100 ✓
Removal risk Maintenance signals that precede a wp.org closure. Not an official status.	High	Low ✓
Last updated	13.7y ago	3mo ago ✓
Downloads, last 30d	38	74 ✓
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.	+93%	+115%
Install conversion Active installs over lifetime downloads. Downloads include every update, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower.	0.2% ✓	0.1%
Category	Uncategorized	Uncategorized

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

Release activity

Apollo BarWelcome Bar

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.