Easy Fontawesome vs Advanced Custom Fields: Font Awesome Field

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

Easy Fontawesome

by Andrew Gunn

Health D45

Advanced Custom Fields: Font Awesome Field

by Justin Kruit

Health A90

Active-install trajectory

Easy Fontawesome Advanced Custom Fields: Font Awesome Field

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	Easy Fontawesome	Advanced Custom Fields: Font Awesome Field
Active installs Modeled from the public "N+" band and recent downloads.	100–200	90K–100K ✓
Install trend Change in active installs across the charted window.	0% ✓	-10%
Overall health	D · 45	A · 90 ✓
Maintenance How recently the plugin was updated.	3/100	100/100 ✓
Rating quality Volume-adjusted review quality.	74/100	93/100 ✓
Support Share of forum threads marked resolved.	70/100	70/100
Rating (adjusted)	3.98★	4.66★ ✓
Reviews	1	36 ✓
Ranking optimization How well the listing is tuned to rank on wp.org.	35/100	89/100 ✓
Removal risk Maintenance signals that precede a wp.org closure. Not an official status.	High	Low ✓
Last updated	10.1y ago	7d ago ✓
Downloads · 30d	161	135.4K ✓
Category	Uncategorized	Uncategorized

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

Release activity

Easy Fontawesome Advanced Custom Fields: Font Awesome Field

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.