E20R Better Members List for Paid Memberships Pro vs Simple Membership

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

Simple Membership is the safest pick: health A · 95 against 45 for E20R Better Members List for Paid Memberships Pro, led by lower removal risk.

E20R Better Members List for Paid Memberships Pro

by Thomas S

Health D45

Simple Membership

by wp.insider

Health A95

Active-install trajectory

E20R Better Members List for Paid Memberships Pro moved up one install band, 10+ 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	E20R Better Members List for Paid Memberships Pro	Simple Membership
Active installs Modeled from the public "N+" band and recent downloads.	20–30	40K–50K ✓
Active installs, change over ~6 months Compares the public install bands. One band step shows as the band change, not a percentage.	+100% ✓	Stable
Overall health	D · 45	A · 95 ✓
Maintenance How recently the plugin was updated.	3/100	100/100 ✓
Rating quality Volume-adjusted review quality.	76/100	90/100 ✓
Support Share of forum threads marked resolved.	70/100	94/100 ✓
Rating (weighted for review count)	4.1★	4.6★ ✓
Reviews	3	476 ✓
Ranking optimization How well the listing is tuned to rank on wp.org.	44/100	97/100 ✓
Removal risk Maintenance signals that precede a wp.org closure. Not an official status.	Elevated	Low ✓
Last updated	4.6y ago	3d ago ✓
Downloads, last 30d	198	72.6K ✓
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%	+9%
Install conversion Active installs over lifetime downloads. Downloads include every update, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower.	0.1%	1.1% ✓
Category	Uncategorized	Membership

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

Release activity

E20R Better Members List for Paid Memberships ProSimple Membership

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.