Social Media Share Buttons and Link Shortener 4eq vs AddToAny Share Buttons

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

AddToAny Share Buttons is the safest pick: health A · 86 against 45 for Social Media Share Buttons and Link Shortener 4eq, led by lower removal risk.

Social Media Share Buttons and Link Shortener 4eq

by saeedmoh031

Health D45

AddToAny Share Buttons

by micropat

Health A86

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	Social Media Share Buttons and Link Shortener 4eq	AddToAny Share Buttons
Active installs Modeled from the public "N+" band and recent downloads.	50–60	300K–400K ✓
Active installs, change over ~6 months Compares the public install bands. One band step shows as the band change, not a percentage.	+25% ✓	Stable
Overall health	D · 45	A · 86 ✓
Maintenance How recently the plugin was updated.	3/100	89/100 ✓
Rating quality Volume-adjusted review quality.	74/100	94/100 ✓
Support Share of forum threads marked resolved.	70/100	70/100
Rating (weighted for review count)	4.0★	4.7★ ✓
Reviews	1	1,114 ✓
Ranking optimization How well the listing is tuned to rank on wp.org.	35/100	98/100 ✓
Removal risk Maintenance signals that precede a wp.org closure. Not an official status.	High	Low ✓
Last updated	6.8y ago	6mo ago ✓
Downloads, last 30d	114	33.7K ✓
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.	-6%	+17%
Install conversion Active installs over lifetime downloads. Downloads include every update, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower.	0.7%	1.6% ✓
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.