Daring Fireball-style Linked List Plugin vs Subscribe Button by AddToAny

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

Subscribe Button by AddToAny is the only plugin here with enough reviews to score.

Daring Fireball-style Linked List Plugin

by yjsoon

Health D41

Subscribe Button by AddToAny

by micropat

Health D45

Active-install trajectory

Daring Fireball-style Linked List Plugin moved down one install band, 40+ to 30+; Subscribe Button by AddToAny moved down one install band, 1K+ to 900+. That's a single step across the whole window, so there's no trajectory to draw. The download trend below moves daily.

Metric	Daring Fireball-style Linked List Plugin	Subscribe Button by AddToAny
Active installs Modeled from the public "N+" band and recent downloads.	30–40	900–1K ✓
Active installs, change over ~6 months Compares the public install bands. One band step shows as the band change, not a percentage.	-25%	-10% ✓
Overall health	—	D · 45 ✓
Maintenance How recently the plugin was updated.	3/100	3/100
Rating quality Volume-adjusted review quality.	—	76/100 ✓
Support Share of forum threads marked resolved.	—	70/100 ✓
Rating (weighted for review count)	—	4.1★ ✓
Reviews	0	2 ✓
Ranking optimization How well the listing is tuned to rank on wp.org.	33/100	37/100 ✓
Removal risk Maintenance signals that precede a wp.org closure. Not an official status.	High	High
Last updated	15.4y ago	8.9y ago ✓
Downloads, last 30d	187	249 ✓
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.	+6%	+31%
Install conversion Active installs over lifetime downloads. Downloads include every update, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower.	0.2%	0.3% ✓
Category	Content & Feeds	Content & Feeds

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

Release activity

Daring Fireball-style Linked List PluginSubscribe Button by AddToAny

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.