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Social Toolbar vs Lightweight Social Icons

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

Lightweight Social Icons is the safest pick: health D · 51 against 41 for Social Toolbar, led by stronger rating quality.

Active-install trajectory

Lightweight Social Icons moved down one install band, 30K+ to 20K+. That's a single step across the whole window, so there's no trajectory to draw. The download trend below moves daily.

Metric	Social Toolbar	Lightweight Social Icons
Active installs Modeled from the public "N+" band and recent downloads.	100–200	20K–30K ✓
Active installs, change over ~6 months Compares the public install bands. One band step shows as the band change, not a percentage.	Stable ✓	30K+ → 20K+
Overall health	D · 41	D · 51 ✓
Maintenance How recently the plugin was updated.	3/100	3/100
Rating quality Volume-adjusted review quality.	63/100	91/100 ✓
Support Share of forum threads marked resolved.	70/100	70/100
Rating (weighted for review count)	3.5★	4.6★ ✓
Reviews	16	63 ✓
Ranking optimization How well the listing is tuned to rank on wp.org.	40/100	48/100 ✓
Removal risk Maintenance signals that precede a wp.org closure. Not an official status.	High	High
Last updated	12.0y ago	6.6y ago ✓
Downloads, last 30d	96	781 ✓
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.	+10%	+35%
Install conversion Active installs over lifetime downloads. Downloads include every update, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower.	0.1%	4.3% ✓
Category	Social	Social

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

Release activity

Social ToolbarLightweight Social Icons

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.