Shining Cursor Trail vs Cursor Style & Animation

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

Shining Cursor Trail

by Taisa - Raquel García Arévalo

Health B71

Cursor Style & Animation

by RoarDev

Health A85

Active-install trajectory

Shining Cursor TrailCursor Style & Animation

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	Shining Cursor Trail	Cursor Style & Animation
Active installs Modeled from the public "N+" band and recent downloads.	50–60	70–80 ✓
Install trend Change in active installs across the charted window.	+67%	+600% ✓
Overall health	—	A · 85 ✓
Maintenance How recently the plugin was updated.	78/100	100/100 ✓
Rating quality Volume-adjusted review quality.	—	78/100 ✓
Support Share of forum threads marked resolved.	—	70/100 ✓
Rating (weighted for review count)	—	4.1★ ✓
Reviews	0	3 ✓
Ranking optimization How well the listing is tuned to rank on wp.org.	81/100	88/100 ✓
Removal risk Maintenance signals that precede a wp.org closure. Not an official status.	Low	Low
Last updated	8mo ago	3mo ago ✓
Downloads · 30d	88	164 ✓
Install conversion Active installs over lifetime downloads. Downloads include every update, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower.	4.7%	5.7% ✓
Category	Uncategorized	Uncategorized

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

Release activity

Shining Cursor TrailCursor Style & Animation

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.