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MKM Digital Social Publisher Bridge to Buffer vs Gleam: Run Competitions on Your WordPress Blog

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

Gleam: Run Competitions on Your WordPress Blog is the only plugin here with enough reviews to score.

Active-install trajectory

Gleam: Run Competitions on Your WordPress Blog moved down one install band, 200+ to 100+. That's a single step across the whole window, so there's no trajectory to draw. The download trend below moves daily.

Metric	MKM Digital Social Publisher Bridge to Buffer	Gleam: Run Competitions on Your WordPress Blog
Active installs Modeled from the public "N+" band and recent downloads.	—	100–200 ✓
Active installs, change over ~6 months Compares the public install bands. One band step shows as the band change, not a percentage.	—	200+ → 100+ ✓
Overall health	—	D · 42 ✓
Maintenance How recently the plugin was updated.	100/100 ✓	3/100
Rating quality Volume-adjusted review quality.	—	67/100 ✓
Support Share of forum threads marked resolved.	—	70/100 ✓
Rating (weighted for review count)	—	3.7★ ✓
Reviews	0	4 ✓
Ranking optimization How well the listing is tuned to rank on wp.org.	88/100 ✓	38/100
Removal risk Maintenance signals that precede a wp.org closure. Not an official status.	Low ✓	High
Last updated	29d ago ✓	8.5y ago
Downloads, last 30d	154	172 ✓
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.	+48%	-7%
Install conversion Active installs over lifetime downloads. Downloads include every update, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower.	—	0.9% ✓
Category	Social	Social

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

Release activity

MKM Digital Social Publisher Bridge to BufferGleam: Run Competitions on Your WordPress Blog

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.