Instant Breaking News vs T4B News Ticker

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

Instant Breaking News

by Gero Nikolov

Health C68

T4B News Ticker

by Realwebcare

Health A86

Active-install trajectory

Instant Breaking News T4B News Ticker

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	Instant Breaking News	T4B News Ticker
Active installs Modeled from the public "N+" band and recent downloads.	70–80	7K–8K ✓
Install trend Change in active installs across the charted window.	0%	0%
Overall health	C · 68	A · 86 ✓
Maintenance How recently the plugin was updated.	61/100	100/100 ✓
Rating quality Volume-adjusted review quality.	74/100	82/100 ✓
Support Share of forum threads marked resolved.	70/100	70/100
Rating (adjusted)	3.98★	4.24★ ✓
Reviews	1	16 ✓
Ranking optimization How well the listing is tuned to rank on wp.org.	76/100	93/100 ✓
Removal risk Maintenance signals that precede a wp.org closure. Not an official status.	Low	Low
Last updated	1.0y ago	3mo ago ✓
Downloads · 30d	59	1.1K ✓
Category	Uncategorized	Uncategorized

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

Release activity

Instant Breaking News T4B News Ticker

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.