HT Feed vs Smash Balloon Social Photo Feed

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

HT Feed

by HT Plugins

Health B80

Smash Balloon Social Photo Feed

by Syed Balkhi

Health A92

Active-install trajectory

HT Feed Smash Balloon Social Photo Feed

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	HT Feed	Smash Balloon Social Photo Feed
Active installs Modeled from the public "N+" band and recent downloads.	600–700	1M–2M ✓
Install trend Change in active installs across the charted window.	-25%	0% ✓
Overall health	B · 80	A · 92 ✓
Maintenance How recently the plugin was updated.	100/100	100/100
Rating quality Volume-adjusted review quality.	65/100	98/100 ✓
Support Share of forum threads marked resolved.	70/100	72/100 ✓
Rating (adjusted)	3.60★	4.89★ ✓
Reviews	0	4,350 ✓
Ranking optimization How well the listing is tuned to rank on wp.org.	88/100	94/100 ✓
Removal risk Maintenance signals that precede a wp.org closure. Not an official status.	Low	Low
Last updated	19d ago	4d ago ✓
Downloads · 30d	175	696.4K ✓
Category	Page Builders	Social

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

Release activity

HT Feed Smash Balloon Social Photo 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.