Category Buttons vs Qty Increment Buttons for WooCommerce

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

Category Buttons

by Ryvenia

Health C55

Qty Increment Buttons for WooCommerce

by taisho

Health D53

Active-install trajectory

Category Buttons Qty Increment Buttons for WooCommerce

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	Category Buttons	Qty Increment Buttons for WooCommerce
Active installs Modeled from the public "N+" band and recent downloads.	100–200	9K–10K ✓
Install trend Change in active installs across the charted window.	0% ✓	-10%
Overall health	C · 55 ✓	D · 53
Maintenance How recently the plugin was updated.	22/100 ✓	3/100
Rating quality Volume-adjusted review quality.	81/100	98/100 ✓
Support Share of forum threads marked resolved.	70/100	70/100
Rating (adjusted)	4.22★	4.91★ ✓
Reviews	5	319 ✓
Ranking optimization How well the listing is tuned to rank on wp.org.	60/100 ✓	52/100
Removal risk Maintenance signals that precede a wp.org closure. Not an official status.	Elevated	Elevated
Last updated	2.2y ago ✓	6.0y ago
Downloads · 30d	68	262 ✓
Category	eCommerce	eCommerce

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

Release activity

Category Buttons Qty Increment Buttons for WooCommerce

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.