Popular Products Block for WooCommerce vs Spectra Legacy

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

Spectra Legacy is the only plugin here with enough reviews to score.

Active-install trajectory

Popular Products Block for WooCommerce moved up one install band, 200+ to 300+. That's a single step across the whole window, so there's no trajectory to draw. The download trend below moves daily.

Metric	Popular Products Block for WooCommerce	Spectra Legacy
Active installs Modeled from the public "N+" band and recent downloads.	300–400	1M–2M ✓
Active installs, change over ~6 months Compares the public install bands. One band step shows as the band change, not a percentage.	+50% ✓	Stable
Overall health	—	A · 92 ✓
Maintenance How recently the plugin was updated.	100/100	100/100
Rating quality Volume-adjusted review quality.	—	93/100 ✓
Support Share of forum threads marked resolved.	—	79/100 ✓
Rating (weighted for review count)	—	4.7★ ✓
Reviews	0	1,872 ✓
Ranking optimization How well the listing is tuned to rank on wp.org.	88/100	94/100 ✓
Removal risk Maintenance signals that precede a wp.org closure. Not an official status.	Low	Low
Last updated	5d ago	2d ago ✓
Downloads, last 30d	372	663K ✓
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.	+6%	+32%
Install conversion Active installs over lifetime downloads. Downloads include every update, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower.	4.5% ✓	2.2%
Category	Blocks	Blocks

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

Release activity

Popular Products Block for WooCommerceSpectra Legacy

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.