Featured Podcast Widget vs Seriously Simple Podcasting

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

Featured Podcast Widget

by Richard Farrar

Health D45

Seriously Simple Podcasting

by Craig Hewitt

Health A90

Active-install trajectory

Featured Podcast Widget Seriously Simple Podcasting

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	Featured Podcast Widget	Seriously Simple Podcasting
Active installs Modeled from the public "N+" band and recent downloads.	60–70	30K–40K ✓
Install trend Change in active installs across the charted window.	+20% ✓	0%
Overall health	D · 45	A · 90 ✓
Maintenance How recently the plugin was updated.	3/100	100/100 ✓
Rating quality Volume-adjusted review quality.	76/100	93/100 ✓
Support Share of forum threads marked resolved.	70/100	70/100
Rating (adjusted)	4.06★	4.69★ ✓
Reviews	2	329 ✓
Ranking optimization How well the listing is tuned to rank on wp.org.	37/100	92/100 ✓
Removal risk Maintenance signals that precede a wp.org closure. Not an official status.	High	Low ✓
Last updated	10.1y ago	19d ago ✓
Downloads · 30d	49	25.0K ✓
Category	Admin & Utilities	Uncategorized

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

Release activity

Featured Podcast Widget Seriously Simple Podcasting

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.