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Scheduled Announcements Widget vs Frontend Dashboard Notification

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

Scheduled Announcements Widget is the only plugin here with enough reviews to score.

Active-install trajectory

Scheduled Announcements WidgetFrontend Dashboard Notification

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	Scheduled Announcements Widget	Frontend Dashboard Notification
Active installs Modeled from the public "N+" band and recent downloads.	100–200 ✓	40–50
Active installs, change over ~6 months Compares the public install bands. One band step shows as the band change, not a percentage.	Stable ✓	-43%
Overall health	D · 44 ✓	—
Maintenance How recently the plugin was updated.	5/100	100/100 ✓
Rating quality Volume-adjusted review quality.	71/100 ✓	—
Support Share of forum threads marked resolved.	70/100 ✓	—
Rating (weighted for review count)	3.9★ ✓	—
Reviews	5 ✓	0
Ranking optimization How well the listing is tuned to rank on wp.org.	43/100	88/100 ✓
Removal risk Maintenance signals that precede a wp.org closure. Not an official status.	Elevated	Low ✓
Last updated	3.7y ago	1mo ago ✓
Downloads, last 30d	111	287 ✓
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.	-14%	+41%
Install conversion Active installs over lifetime downloads. Downloads include every update, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower.	0.6% ✓	0.1%
Category	Uncategorized	Admin & Utilities

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

Release activity

Scheduled Announcements WidgetFrontend Dashboard Notification

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.