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Responsive News & Announcements vs Live News

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

Responsive News & Announcements is the only plugin here with enough reviews to score.

Active-install trajectory

Live News moved down one install band, 3K+ to 2K+. That's a single step across the whole window, so there's no trajectory to draw. The download trend below moves daily.

Metric	Responsive News & Announcements	Live News
Active installs Modeled from the public "N+" band and recent downloads.	20–30	2K–3K ✓
Active installs, change over ~6 months Compares the public install bands. One band step shows as the band change, not a percentage.	Stable ✓	3K+ → 2K+
Overall health	D · 45 ✓	—
Maintenance How recently the plugin was updated.	3/100	41/100 ✓
Rating quality Volume-adjusted review quality.	74/100 ✓	—
Support Share of forum threads marked resolved.	70/100 ✓	—
Rating (weighted for review count)	4.0★ ✓	—
Reviews	5 ✓	0
Ranking optimization How well the listing is tuned to rank on wp.org.	37/100	68/100 ✓
Removal risk Maintenance signals that precede a wp.org closure. Not an official status.	High	Low ✓
Last updated	13.8y ago	1.5y ago ✓
Downloads, last 30d	27	402 ✓
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.	-50%	+42%
Install conversion Active installs over lifetime downloads. Downloads include every update, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower.	0.2%	13% ✓
Category	Uncategorized	Uncategorized

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

Release activity

Responsive News & AnnouncementsLive News

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.