Widgets for Reviews & Recommendations vs Smash Balloon Social Post Feed

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

Smash Balloon Social Post Feed and Widgets for Reviews & Recommendations are close on health (A · 90 vs A · 89). Smash Balloon Social Post Feed has the stronger rating quality.

Widgets for Reviews & Recommendations

by Trustindex

Health A89

Smash Balloon Social Post Feed

by Syed Balkhi

Health A90

Active-install trajectory

Smash Balloon Social Post Feed moved down one install band, 200K+ to 100K+. That's a single step across the whole window, so there's no trajectory to draw. The download trend below moves daily.

Metric	Widgets for Reviews & Recommendations	Smash Balloon Social Post Feed
Active installs Modeled from the public "N+" band and recent downloads.	8K–9K	100K–200K ✓
Active installs, change over ~6 months Compares the public install bands. One band step shows as the band change, not a percentage.	Stable ✓	200K+ → 100K+
Overall health	A · 89	A · 90 ✓
Maintenance How recently the plugin was updated.	100/100	100/100
Rating quality Volume-adjusted review quality.	89/100	94/100 ✓
Support Share of forum threads marked resolved.	70/100	70/100
Rating (weighted for review count)	4.5★	4.7★ ✓
Reviews	98	1,511 ✓
Ranking optimization How well the listing is tuned to rank on wp.org.	97/100	99/100 ✓
Removal risk Maintenance signals that precede a wp.org closure. Not an official status.	Low	Low
Last updated	9d ago	5d ago ✓
Downloads, last 30d	5.9K	188.9K ✓
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.	-49%	+33%
Install conversion Active installs over lifetime downloads. Downloads include every update, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower.	1.5% ✓	1.0%
Category	Social	Social

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

Release activity

Widgets for Reviews & RecommendationsSmash Balloon Social Post Feed

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.