Auto Assign Post Category vs Create And Assign Categories For Pages

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

Create And Assign Categories For Pages is the safest pick: health D · 51 against 45 for Auto Assign Post Category, led by lower removal risk.

Auto Assign Post Category

by Kiran Patil

Health D45

Create And Assign Categories For Pages

by sandeepsinghhdp

Health D51

Active-install trajectory

Auto Assign Post Category moved down one install band, 30+ to 20+. That's a single step across the whole window, so there's no trajectory to draw. The download trend below moves daily.

Metric	Auto Assign Post Category	Create And Assign Categories For Pages
Active installs Modeled from the public "N+" band and recent downloads.	20–30	10K–20K ✓
Active installs, change over ~6 months Compares the public install bands. One band step shows as the band change, not a percentage.	-33%	Stable ✓
Overall health	D · 45	D · 51 ✓
Maintenance How recently the plugin was updated.	3/100	11/100 ✓
Rating quality Volume-adjusted review quality.	74/100	82/100 ✓
Support Share of forum threads marked resolved.	70/100	70/100
Rating (weighted for review count)	4.0★	4.3★ ✓
Reviews	1	10 ✓
Ranking optimization How well the listing is tuned to rank on wp.org.	40/100	55/100 ✓
Removal risk Maintenance signals that precede a wp.org closure. Not an official status.	High	Elevated ✓
Last updated	5.9y ago	2.8y ago ✓
Downloads, last 30d	40	796 ✓
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.	0%	+42%
Install conversion Active installs over lifetime downloads. Downloads include every update, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower.	0.5%	13% ✓
Category	Uncategorized	Uncategorized

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

Release activity

Auto Assign Post CategoryCreate And Assign Categories For Pages

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.