Pro Categories Widget vs Ultimate Category Excluder

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

Pro Categories Widget

by Shambhu Patnaik

Health D48

Ultimate Category Excluder

by Marios Alexandrou

Health A86

Active-install trajectory

Pro Categories Widget Ultimate Category Excluder

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	Pro Categories Widget	Ultimate Category Excluder
Active installs Modeled from the public "N+" band and recent downloads.	800–900	50K–60K ✓
Install trend Change in active installs across the charted window.	-11%	0% ✓
Overall health	D · 48	A · 86 ✓
Maintenance How recently the plugin was updated.	3/100	100/100 ✓
Rating quality Volume-adjusted review quality.	84/100 ✓	80/100
Support Share of forum threads marked resolved.	70/100	70/100
Rating (adjusted)	4.34★ ✓	4.20★
Reviews	11	77 ✓
Ranking optimization How well the listing is tuned to rank on wp.org.	41/100	96/100 ✓
Removal risk Maintenance signals that precede a wp.org closure. Not an official status.	High	Low ✓
Last updated	7.4y ago	8d ago ✓
Downloads · 30d	147	2.1K ✓
Category	Admin & Utilities	Uncategorized

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

Release activity

Pro Categories Widget Ultimate Category Excluder

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.