Meks Easy Photo Feed Widget vs Smash Balloon Social Photo Feed

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

Meks Easy Photo Feed Widget

by Meks

Health D46

Smash Balloon Social Photo Feed

by Syed Balkhi

Health A92

Active-install trajectory

Meks Easy Photo Feed Widget 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	Meks Easy Photo Feed Widget	Smash Balloon Social Photo Feed
Active installs Modeled from the public "N+" band and recent downloads.	10K–20K	1M–2M ✓
Install trend Change in active installs across the charted window.	-50%	0% ✓
Overall health	D · 46	A · 92 ✓
Maintenance How recently the plugin was updated.	9/100	100/100 ✓
Rating quality Volume-adjusted review quality.	70/100	98/100 ✓
Support Share of forum threads marked resolved.	70/100	72/100 ✓
Rating (adjusted)	3.82★	4.89★ ✓
Reviews	12	4,350 ✓
Ranking optimization How well the listing is tuned to rank on wp.org.	58/100	94/100 ✓
Removal risk Maintenance signals that precede a wp.org closure. Not an official status.	Elevated	Low ✓
Last updated	3.0y ago	4d ago ✓
Downloads · 30d	628	696.4K ✓
Category	Social	Social

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

Release activity

Meks Easy Photo Feed Widget 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.