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PayPal Digital Downloads vs Easy PayPal & Stripe Buy Now Button

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

Easy PayPal & Stripe Buy Now Button is the safest pick: health A · 87 against 46 for PayPal Digital Downloads, led by lower removal risk.

Active-install trajectory

PayPal Digital Downloads moved down one install band, 100+ to 90+. That's a single step across the whole window, so there's no trajectory to draw. The download trend below moves daily.

Metric	PayPal Digital Downloads	Easy PayPal & Stripe Buy Now Button
Active installs Modeled from the public "N+" band and recent downloads.	90–100	10K–20K ✓
Active installs, change over ~6 months Compares the public install bands. One band step shows as the band change, not a percentage.	100+ → 90+	Stable ✓
Overall health	D · 46	A · 87 ✓
Maintenance How recently the plugin was updated.	3/100	100/100 ✓
Rating quality Volume-adjusted review quality.	79/100	84/100 ✓
Support Share of forum threads marked resolved.	70/100	70/100
Rating (weighted for review count)	4.1★	4.3★ ✓
Reviews	7	24 ✓
Ranking optimization How well the listing is tuned to rank on wp.org.	39/100	96/100 ✓
Removal risk Maintenance signals that precede a wp.org closure. Not an official status.	High	Low ✓
Last updated	9.0y ago	1mo ago ✓
Downloads, last 30d	97	2.3K ✓
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.	+52%	+64%
Install conversion Active installs over lifetime downloads. Downloads include every update, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower.	0.5%	2.6% ✓
Category	Payments	Payments

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

Release activity

PayPal Digital DownloadsEasy PayPal & Stripe Buy Now Button

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.