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Category Country Aware WordPress vs Advanced Categories Widget

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

Advanced Categories Widget and Category Country Aware WordPress are close on health (D · 48 vs D · 46). Advanced Categories Widget has the stronger rating quality.

Active-install trajectory

Category Country Aware WordPress moved down one install band, 200+ to 100+; Advanced Categories Widget moved down one install band, 800+ to 700+. That's a single step across the whole window, so there's no trajectory to draw. The download trend below moves daily.

Metric	Category Country Aware WordPress	Advanced Categories Widget
Active installs Modeled from the public "N+" band and recent downloads.	100–200	700–800 ✓
Active installs, change over ~6 months Compares the public install bands. One band step shows as the band change, not a percentage.	-50%	-13% ✓
Overall health	D · 46	D · 48 ✓
Maintenance How recently the plugin was updated.	3/100	3/100
Rating quality Volume-adjusted review quality.	78/100	84/100 ✓
Support Share of forum threads marked resolved.	70/100	70/100
Rating (weighted for review count)	4.1★	4.3★ ✓
Reviews	3	8 ✓
Ranking optimization How well the listing is tuned to rank on wp.org.	39/100	39/100
Removal risk Maintenance signals that precede a wp.org closure. Not an official status.	High	High
Last updated	5.6y ago ✓	10.2y ago
Downloads, last 30d	110	182 ✓
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.	+20%	+41%
Install conversion Active installs over lifetime downloads. Downloads include every update, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower.	1.1%	3.1% ✓
Category	Admin & Utilities	Admin & Utilities

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

Release activity

Category Country Aware WordPressAdvanced Categories Widget

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.