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Like And Who Likes vs I Recommend This

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

I Recommend This is the safest pick: health C · 69 against 45 for Like And Who Likes, led by lower removal risk.

Active-install trajectory

I Recommend This moved down one install band, 5K+ to 4K+. That's a single step across the whole window, so there's no trajectory to draw. The download trend below moves daily.

Metric	Like And Who Likes	I Recommend This
Active installs Modeled from the public "N+" band and recent downloads.	10–20	4K–5K ✓
Active installs, change over ~6 months Compares the public install bands. One band step shows as the band change, not a percentage.	Stable ✓	-20%
Overall health	D · 45	C · 69 ✓
Maintenance How recently the plugin was updated.	3/100	50/100 ✓
Rating quality Volume-adjusted review quality.	74/100	89/100 ✓
Support Share of forum threads marked resolved.	70/100	70/100
Rating (weighted for review count)	4.0★	4.5★ ✓
Reviews	1	38 ✓
Ranking optimization How well the listing is tuned to rank on wp.org.	37/100	79/100 ✓
Removal risk Maintenance signals that precede a wp.org closure. Not an official status.	High	Low ✓
Last updated	9.5y ago	1.3y ago ✓
Downloads, last 30d	42	716 ✓
Download momentum, last 30d vs prior 30d Dips that follow a release spike are normal: wp.org counts every update as a download, so the weeks after a release run lower.	+21%	+47%
Install conversion Active installs over lifetime downloads. Downloads include every update, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower.	0.3%	1.0% ✓
Category	Social	Uncategorized

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

Release activity

Like And Who LikesI Recommend This

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.