Square Thumbnails vs Regenerate Thumbnails

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

Square Thumbnails

by ilmdesigns

Health C64

Regenerate Thumbnails

by Alex Mills

Health B74

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	Square Thumbnails	Regenerate Thumbnails
Active installs Modeled from the public "N+" band and recent downloads.	800–900	1M–2M ✓
Install trend Change in active installs across the charted window.	0%	0%
Overall health	C · 64	B · 74 ✓
Maintenance How recently the plugin was updated.	50/100	61/100 ✓
Rating quality Volume-adjusted review quality.	77/100	91/100 ✓
Support Share of forum threads marked resolved.	70/100	70/100
Rating (adjusted)	4.09★	4.59★ ✓
Reviews	19	395 ✓
Ranking optimization How well the listing is tuned to rank on wp.org.	82/100	87/100 ✓
Removal risk Maintenance signals that precede a wp.org closure. Not an official status.	Low	Low
Last updated	1.3y ago	1.0y ago ✓
Downloads · 30d	194	52.6K ✓
Category	eCommerce	Uncategorized

✓ 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.