Social Media Sidebar Icons vs FireCask’s Twitter Follow Button

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

Social Media Sidebar Icons

by David

Health D41

FireCask’s Twitter Follow Button

by Alex Moss

Health C57

Active-install trajectory

Social Media Sidebar Icons FireCask’s Twitter Follow Button

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 Sidebar Icons	FireCask’s Twitter Follow Button
Active installs Modeled from the public "N+" band and recent downloads.	10–20	200–300 ✓
Install trend Change in active installs across the charted window.	0%	0%
Overall health	D · 41	C · 57 ✓
Maintenance How recently the plugin was updated.	3/100	32/100 ✓
Rating quality Volume-adjusted review quality.	65/100	76/100 ✓
Support Share of forum threads marked resolved.	70/100	70/100
Rating (adjusted)	3.60★	4.06★ ✓
Reviews	0	2 ✓
Ranking optimization How well the listing is tuned to rank on wp.org.	36/100	71/100 ✓
Removal risk Maintenance signals that precede a wp.org closure. Not an official status.	High	Low ✓
Last updated	11.1y ago	1.8y ago ✓
Downloads · 30d	26	67 ✓
Category	Social	Social

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

Release activity

Social Media Sidebar Icons FireCask’s Twitter Follow Button

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.