Gravity Forms Placeholder Add-On vs Gravity Forms Auto Placeholders

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

Gravity Forms Placeholder Add-On is the safest pick: health D · 46 against 42 for Gravity Forms Auto Placeholders, led by stronger rating quality.

Gravity Forms Placeholder Add-On

by phpmypython

Health D46

Gravity Forms Auto Placeholders

by Josh Davis

Health D42

Active-install trajectory

Gravity Forms Auto Placeholders moved down one install band, 700+ to 600+. That's a single step across the whole window, so there's no trajectory to draw. The download trend below moves daily.

Metric	Gravity Forms Placeholder Add-On	Gravity Forms Auto Placeholders
Active installs Modeled from the public "N+" band and recent downloads.	1K–2K ✓	600–700
Active installs, change over ~6 months Compares the public install bands. One band step shows as the band change, not a percentage.	Stable ✓	-14%
Overall health	D · 46 ✓	D · 42
Maintenance How recently the plugin was updated.	3/100	3/100
Rating quality Volume-adjusted review quality.	78/100 ✓	66/100
Support Share of forum threads marked resolved.	70/100	70/100
Rating (weighted for review count)	4.1★ ✓	3.6★
Reviews	12 ✓	5
Ranking optimization How well the listing is tuned to rank on wp.org.	32/100	37/100 ✓
Removal risk Maintenance signals that precede a wp.org closure. Not an official status.	High	High
Last updated	8.9y ago ✓	12.0y ago
Downloads, last 30d	317 ✓	187
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%	+43%
Install conversion Active installs over lifetime downloads. Downloads include every update, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower.	4.6% ✓	3.6%
Category	Forms	Forms

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

Release activity

Gravity Forms Placeholder Add-OnGravity Forms Auto Placeholders

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.