List More Custom Field Names vs Advanced Custom Fields: Extended

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

Advanced Custom Fields: Extended is the safest pick: health A · 91 against 83 for List More Custom Field Names, led by stronger rating quality.

List More Custom Field Names

by Scott Reilly

Health B83

Advanced Custom Fields: Extended

by Konrad Chmielewski

Health A91

Active-install trajectory

List More Custom Field Names moved down one install band, 80+ to 70+. That's a single step across the whole window, so there's no trajectory to draw. The download trend below moves daily.

Metric	List More Custom Field Names	Advanced Custom Fields: Extended
Active installs Modeled from the public "N+" band and recent downloads.	70–80	100K–200K ✓
Active installs, change over ~6 months Compares the public install bands. One band step shows as the band change, not a percentage.	80+ → 70+	Stable ✓
Overall health	B · 83	A · 91 ✓
Maintenance How recently the plugin was updated.	93/100	100/100 ✓
Rating quality Volume-adjusted review quality.	80/100	95/100 ✓
Support Share of forum threads marked resolved.	70/100	70/100
Rating (weighted for review count)	4.2★	4.7★ ✓
Reviews	4	132 ✓
Ranking optimization How well the listing is tuned to rank on wp.org.	89/100	98/100 ✓
Removal risk Maintenance signals that precede a wp.org closure. Not an official status.	Low	Low
Last updated	5mo ago	17d ago ✓
Downloads, last 30d	114	78.8K ✓
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.	+24%	-28%
Install conversion Active installs over lifetime downloads. Downloads include every update, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower.	0.7%	3.6% ✓
Category	Admin & Utilities	Developer Tools

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

Release activity

List More Custom Field NamesAdvanced Custom Fields: Extended

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.