Recently Edited Content Widget vs Dashboard Welcome for Elementor

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

Dashboard Welcome for Elementor is the safest pick: health B · 79 against 47 for Recently Edited Content Widget, led by lower removal risk.

Recently Edited Content Widget

by webdeveric

Health D47

Dashboard Welcome for Elementor

by IdeaBox Creations

Health B79

Active-install trajectory

Dashboard Welcome for Elementor moved down one install band, 20K+ to 10K+. That's a single step across the whole window, so there's no trajectory to draw. The download trend below moves daily.

Metric	Recently Edited Content Widget	Dashboard Welcome for Elementor
Active installs Modeled from the public "N+" band and recent downloads.	200–300	10K–20K ✓
Active installs, change over ~6 months Compares the public install bands. One band step shows as the band change, not a percentage.	Stable ✓	-50%
Overall health	D · 47	B · 79 ✓
Maintenance How recently the plugin was updated.	3/100	89/100 ✓
Rating quality Volume-adjusted review quality.	81/100 ✓	75/100
Support Share of forum threads marked resolved.	70/100	70/100
Rating (weighted for review count)	4.2★ ✓	4.0★
Reviews	5	23 ✓
Ranking optimization How well the listing is tuned to rank on wp.org.	38/100	95/100 ✓
Removal risk Maintenance signals that precede a wp.org closure. Not an official status.	High	Low ✓
Last updated	10.9y ago	6mo ago ✓
Downloads, last 30d	130	1.8K ✓
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.	+35%	+24%
Install conversion Active installs over lifetime downloads. Downloads include every update, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower.	2.9%	5.7% ✓
Category	Admin & Utilities	Page Builders

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

Release activity

Recently Edited Content WidgetDashboard Welcome for Elementor

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.