Hover Pin-It vs jQuery Pin It Button for Images

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

Hover Pin-It

by michellemacphearson

Health D45

jQuery Pin It Button for Images

by mrsztuczkens

Health D51

Active-install trajectory

Hover Pin-It jQuery Pin It Button for Images

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	Hover Pin-It	jQuery Pin It Button for Images
Active installs Modeled from the public "N+" band and recent downloads.	30–40	10K–20K ✓
Install trend Change in active installs across the charted window.	-25%	0% ✓
Overall health	D · 45	D · 51 ✓
Maintenance How recently the plugin was updated.	3/100	3/100
Rating quality Volume-adjusted review quality.	74/100	92/100 ✓
Support Share of forum threads marked resolved.	70/100	70/100
Rating (adjusted)	3.99★	4.62★ ✓
Reviews	3	305 ✓
Ranking optimization How well the listing is tuned to rank on wp.org.	34/100	51/100 ✓
Removal risk Maintenance signals that precede a wp.org closure. Not an official status.	High	Elevated ✓
Last updated	13.9y ago	5.9y ago ✓
Downloads · 30d	69	356 ✓
Category	Social	Uncategorized

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

Release activity

Hover Pin-It jQuery Pin It Button for Images

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.