Paid Membership Subscriptions vs User Registration & Membership

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

Paid Membership Subscriptions

by Cozmoslabs

Health A96

User Registration & Membership

by wpeverest

Health A98

Active-install trajectory

Paid Membership Subscriptions User Registration & Membership

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	Paid Membership Subscriptions	User Registration & Membership
Active installs Modeled from the public "N+" band and recent downloads.	10K–20K	50K–60K ✓
Install trend Change in active installs across the charted window.	0% ✓	-17%
Overall health	A · 96	A · 98 ✓
Maintenance How recently the plugin was updated.	100/100	100/100
Rating quality Volume-adjusted review quality.	93/100	95/100 ✓
Support Share of forum threads marked resolved.	95/100	100/100 ✓
Rating (adjusted)	4.66★	4.76★ ✓
Reviews	265	828 ✓
Ranking optimization How well the listing is tuned to rank on wp.org.	97/100	99/100 ✓
Removal risk Maintenance signals that precede a wp.org closure. Not an official status.	Low	Low
Last updated	6d ago ✓	13d ago
Downloads · 30d	17.1K	47.8K ✓
Category	Membership	Membership

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

Release activity

Paid Membership Subscriptions User Registration & Membership

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.