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PCIO Year Wheel vs The Events Calendar

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

The Events Calendar is the only plugin here with enough reviews to score.

Active-install trajectory

The Events Calendar moved down one install band, 700K+ to 600K+. That's a single step across the whole window, so there's no trajectory to draw. The download trend below moves daily.

Metric	PCIO Year Wheel	The Events Calendar
Active installs Modeled from the public "N+" band and recent downloads.	—	600K–700K ✓
Active installs, change over ~6 months Compares the public install bands. One band step shows as the band change, not a percentage.	—	700K+ → 600K+ ✓
Overall health	—	A · 93 ✓
Maintenance How recently the plugin was updated.	95/100	100/100 ✓
Rating quality Volume-adjusted review quality.	—	82/100 ✓
Support Share of forum threads marked resolved.	—	96/100 ✓
Rating (weighted for review count)	—	4.2★ ✓
Reviews	0	2,463 ✓
Ranking optimization How well the listing is tuned to rank on wp.org.	88/100	96/100 ✓
Removal risk Maintenance signals that precede a wp.org closure. Not an official status.	Low	Low
Last updated	4mo ago	today ✓
Downloads, last 30d	56	1.1M ✓
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.	+8%	-4%
Install conversion Active installs over lifetime downloads. Downloads include every update, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower.	—	0.7% ✓
Category	Booking & Events	Booking & Events

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

Release activity

PCIO Year WheelThe Events Calendar

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.