Lightweight Social Icons vs Socials Ignited

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

Lightweight Social Icons

by Tom

Health D51

Socials Ignited

by Anastis Sourgoutsidis

Health C62

Active-install trajectory

Lightweight Social Icons Socials Ignited

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	Lightweight Social Icons	Socials Ignited
Active installs Modeled from the public "N+" band and recent downloads.	30K–40K ✓	2K–3K
Install trend Change in active installs across the charted window.	0%	0%
Overall health	D · 51	C · 62 ✓
Maintenance How recently the plugin was updated.	3/100	47/100 ✓
Rating quality Volume-adjusted review quality.	91/100 ✓	74/100
Support Share of forum threads marked resolved.	70/100	70/100
Rating (adjusted)	4.61★ ✓	3.99★
Reviews	63 ✓	4
Ranking optimization How well the listing is tuned to rank on wp.org.	50/100	76/100 ✓
Removal risk Maintenance signals that precede a wp.org closure. Not an official status.	Elevated	Low ✓
Last updated	6.5y ago	1.3y ago ✓
Downloads · 30d	462 ✓	201
Category	Social	Social

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

Release activity

Lightweight Social Icons Socials Ignited

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.