Hide Cart Functions vs Ultimate Category Excluder

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

Hide Cart Functions

by artiosmedia

Health B80

Ultimate Category Excluder

by Marios Alexandrou

Health A86

Active-install trajectory

Hide Cart Functions Ultimate Category Excluder

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	Hide Cart Functions	Ultimate Category Excluder
Active installs Modeled from the public "N+" band and recent downloads.	3K–4K	50K–60K ✓
Install trend Change in active installs across the charted window.	0%	0%
Overall health	B · 80	A · 86 ✓
Maintenance How recently the plugin was updated.	84/100	100/100 ✓
Rating quality Volume-adjusted review quality.	83/100 ✓	80/100
Support Share of forum threads marked resolved.	70/100	70/100
Rating (adjusted)	4.30★ ✓	4.20★
Reviews	14	77 ✓
Ranking optimization How well the listing is tuned to rank on wp.org.	91/100	96/100 ✓
Removal risk Maintenance signals that precede a wp.org closure. Not an official status.	Low	Low
Last updated	7mo ago	9d ago ✓
Downloads · 30d	412	2.2K ✓
Category	eCommerce	Uncategorized

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

Release activity

Hide Cart Functions Ultimate Category Excluder

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.