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Responsive Social Sharing Icons vs Crafty Social Buttons

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

Crafty Social Buttons is the safest pick: health D · 50 against 44 for Responsive Social Sharing Icons, led by stronger rating quality.

Active-install trajectory

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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 Social Sharing Icons	Crafty Social Buttons
Active installs Modeled from the public "N+" band and recent downloads.	60–70	900–1K ✓
Active installs, change over ~6 months Compares the public install bands. One band step shows as the band change, not a percentage.	-25%	1K+ → 900+ ✓
Overall health	D · 44	D · 50 ✓
Maintenance How recently the plugin was updated.	3/100	3/100
Rating quality Volume-adjusted review quality.	71/100	89/100 ✓
Support Share of forum threads marked resolved.	70/100	70/100
Rating (weighted for review count)	3.8★	4.5★ ✓
Reviews	2	40 ✓
Ranking optimization How well the listing is tuned to rank on wp.org.	36/100	45/100 ✓
Removal risk Maintenance signals that precede a wp.org closure. Not an official status.	High	High
Last updated	12.5y ago	8.9y ago ✓
Downloads, last 30d	72	184 ✓
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.	-2%	-5%
Install conversion Active installs over lifetime downloads. Downloads include every update, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower.	0.7%	0.8% ✓
Category	Social	Social

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

Release activity

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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.