BuddyPress Favorite Notification vs BuddyPress Group Email Subscription

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

BuddyPress Favorite Notification is the safest pick: health A · 86 against 53 for BuddyPress Group Email Subscription, led by lower removal risk.

BuddyPress Favorite Notification

by Varun Dubey

Health A86

BuddyPress Group Email Subscription

by Boone Gorges

Health D53

Active-install trajectory

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Active installs, each indexed to 100 at the start of the window. A line above 100 is growing its install base, below 100 is shrinking.

Metric	BuddyPress Favorite Notification	BuddyPress Group Email Subscription
Active installs Modeled from the public "N+" band and recent downloads.	70–80	1K–2K ✓
Active installs, change over ~6 months Compares the public install bands. One band step shows as the band change, not a percentage.	-65%	Stable ✓
Overall health	A · 86 ✓	D · 53
Maintenance How recently the plugin was updated.	100/100 ✓	23/100
Rating quality Volume-adjusted review quality.	81/100 ✓	75/100
Support Share of forum threads marked resolved.	70/100	70/100
Rating (weighted for review count)	4.2★ ✓	4.0★
Reviews	5	32 ✓
Ranking optimization How well the listing is tuned to rank on wp.org.	90/100 ✓	66/100
Removal risk Maintenance signals that precede a wp.org closure. Not an official status.	Low ✓	Elevated
Last updated	4d ago ✓	2.1y ago
Downloads, last 30d	416	706 ✓
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.	+10%	+56%
Install conversion Active installs over lifetime downloads. Downloads include every update, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower.	0.3%	0.4% ✓
Category	Uncategorized	Uncategorized

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

Release activity

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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.