Responsive Bit Announcement Manager vs Horizontal scrolling announcements

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

Responsive Bit Announcement Manager

by Shafaat Javed

Health D43

Horizontal scrolling announcements

by gopiplus

Health B80

Active-install trajectory

Responsive Bit Announcement Manager Horizontal scrolling announcements

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	Responsive Bit Announcement Manager	Horizontal scrolling announcements
Active installs Modeled from the public "N+" band and recent downloads.	10–20	8K–9K ✓
Install trend Change in active installs across the charted window.	0% ✓	-11%
Overall health	D · 43	B · 80 ✓
Maintenance How recently the plugin was updated.	3/100	100/100 ✓
Rating quality Volume-adjusted review quality.	69/100 ✓	64/100
Support Share of forum threads marked resolved.	70/100	70/100
Rating (adjusted)	3.77★ ✓	3.58★
Reviews	2	10 ✓
Ranking optimization How well the listing is tuned to rank on wp.org.	30/100	83/100 ✓
Removal risk Maintenance signals that precede a wp.org closure. Not an official status.	High	Low ✓
Last updated	13.8y ago	3mo ago ✓
Downloads · 30d	145	1.0K ✓
Category	Booking & Events	Uncategorized

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

Release activity

Responsive Bit Announcement Manager Horizontal scrolling announcements

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.