Simple Share Follow Button vs Superb Social Media Share Buttons and Follow Butto

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

Simple Share Follow Button

by Katsushi Kawamori

Health B80

Superb Social Media Share Buttons and Follow Butto

by Suplugins

Health B77

Active-install trajectory

Simple Share Follow Button Superb Social Media Share Buttons and Follow Butto

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	Simple Share Follow Button	Superb Social Media Share Buttons and Follow Butto
Active installs Modeled from the public "N+" band and recent downloads.	10–20	6K–7K ✓
Install trend Change in active installs across the charted window.	0% ✓	-14%
Overall health	B · 80 ✓	B · 77
Maintenance How recently the plugin was updated.	100/100 ✓	80/100
Rating quality Volume-adjusted review quality.	65/100	78/100 ✓
Support Share of forum threads marked resolved.	70/100	70/100
Rating (adjusted)	3.60★	4.12★ ✓
Reviews	0	11 ✓
Ranking optimization How well the listing is tuned to rank on wp.org.	80/100	88/100 ✓
Removal risk Maintenance signals that precede a wp.org closure. Not an official status.	Low	Low
Last updated	1mo ago ✓	8mo ago
Downloads · 30d	63	865 ✓
Category	Social	Media

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

Release activity

Simple Share Follow Button Superb Social Media Share Buttons and Follow Butto

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.