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Gleam: Run Competitions on Your WordPress Blog vs Social Media Widget

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

Social Media Widget is the safest pick: health D · 50 against 42 for Gleam: Run Competitions on Your WordPress Blog, led by lower removal risk.

Active-install trajectory

Gleam: Run Competitions on Your WordPress Blog moved down one install band, 200+ to 100+. That's a single step across the whole window, so there's no trajectory to draw. The download trend below moves daily.

Metric Gleam: Run Competitions on Your WordPress Blog Social Media Widget
Active installs Modeled from the public "N+" band and recent downloads. 100–200 30K–40K ✓
Active installs, change over ~6 months Compares the public install bands. One band step shows as the band change, not a percentage. 200+ → 100+ Stable ✓
Overall health D · 42 D · 50 ✓
Maintenance How recently the plugin was updated. 3/100 18/100 ✓
Rating quality Volume-adjusted review quality. 67/100 72/100 ✓
Support Share of forum threads marked resolved. 70/100 70/100
Rating (weighted for review count) 3.7★ 3.9★ ✓
Reviews 4 84 ✓
Ranking optimization How well the listing is tuned to rank on wp.org. 38/100 61/100 ✓
Removal risk Maintenance signals that precede a wp.org closure. Not an official status. High Elevated ✓
Last updated 8.5y ago 2.4y ago ✓
Downloads, last 30d 170 1.5K ✓
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. -8% +20%
Install conversion Active installs over lifetime downloads. Downloads include every update, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower. 0.9% 1.4% ✓
Category Social Social

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

Release activity

Gleam: Run Competitions on Your WordPress BlogSocial Media Widget

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.