QW Share Buttons vs WPZOOM Connect: Social Icons Widget & Block, Share

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

WPZOOM Connect: Social Icons Widget & Block, Share is the safest pick: health A · 91 against 83 for QW Share Buttons, led by stronger rating quality.

QW Share Buttons

by Himanshu Yadav

Health B83

WPZOOM Connect: Social Icons Widget & Block, Share

by WPZOOM

Health A91

Active-install trajectory

WPZOOM Connect: Social Icons Widget & Block, Share moved down one install band, 100K+ to 90K+. That's a single step across the whole window, so there's no trajectory to draw. The download trend below moves daily.

Metric	QW Share Buttons	WPZOOM Connect: Social Icons Widget & Block, Share
Active installs Modeled from the public "N+" band and recent downloads.	—	90K–100K ✓
Active installs, change over ~6 months Compares the public install bands. One band step shows as the band change, not a percentage.	—	100K+ → 90K+ ✓
Overall health	B · 83	A · 91 ✓
Maintenance How recently the plugin was updated.	100/100	100/100
Rating quality Volume-adjusted review quality.	74/100	97/100 ✓
Support Share of forum threads marked resolved.	70/100	70/100
Rating (weighted for review count)	4.0★	4.8★ ✓
Reviews	1	144 ✓
Ranking optimization How well the listing is tuned to rank on wp.org.	88/100	99/100 ✓
Removal risk Maintenance signals that precede a wp.org closure. Not an official status.	Low	Low
Last updated	3d ago ✓	11d ago
Downloads, last 30d	1.7K	54K ✓
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%
Install conversion Active installs over lifetime downloads. Downloads include every update, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower.	—	2.1% ✓
Category	Privacy & Consent	Social

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

Release activity

QW Share ButtonsWPZOOM Connect: Social Icons Widget & Block, Share

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.