Social Media Feed Widget vs Smash Balloon Social Photo Feed

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

Social Media Feed Widget

by logicwind

Health C64

Smash Balloon Social Photo Feed

by Syed Balkhi

Health A96

Active-install trajectory

Social Media Feed Widget Smash Balloon Social Photo Feed

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	Social Media Feed Widget	Smash Balloon Social Photo Feed
Active installs Modeled from the public "N+" band and recent downloads.	20–30	1M–2M ✓
Install trend Change in active installs across the charted window.	0%	0%
Overall health	C · 64	A · 96 ✓
Maintenance How recently the plugin was updated.	52/100	100/100 ✓
Rating quality Volume-adjusted review quality.	74/100	98/100 ✓
Support Share of forum threads marked resolved.	70/100	86/100 ✓
Rating (adjusted)	3.98★	4.89★ ✓
Reviews	1	4,353 ✓
Ranking optimization How well the listing is tuned to rank on wp.org.	76/100	97/100 ✓
Removal risk Maintenance signals that precede a wp.org closure. Not an official status.	Low	Low
Last updated	1.2y ago	16d ago ✓
Downloads · 30d	81	574.7K ✓
Category	Social	Social

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

Release activity

Social Media Feed Widget Smash Balloon Social Photo Feed

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.