Stealth Publish vs Easy Custom Auto Excerpt

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

Stealth Publish

by Scott Reilly

Health D49

Easy Custom Auto Excerpt

by todiadiyatmo

Health C56

Active-install trajectory

Stealth Publish Easy Custom Auto Excerpt

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	Stealth Publish	Easy Custom Auto Excerpt
Active installs Modeled from the public "N+" band and recent downloads.	900–1K	6K–7K ✓
Install trend Change in active installs across the charted window.	-10% ✓	-14%
Overall health	D · 49	C · 56 ✓
Maintenance How recently the plugin was updated.	3/100	19/100 ✓
Rating quality Volume-adjusted review quality.	87/100	87/100
Support Share of forum threads marked resolved.	70/100	70/100
Rating (adjusted)	4.43★	4.45★ ✓
Reviews	11	151 ✓
Ranking optimization How well the listing is tuned to rank on wp.org.	40/100	75/100 ✓
Removal risk Maintenance signals that precede a wp.org closure. Not an official status.	High	Elevated ✓
Last updated	10.4y ago	2.4y ago ✓
Downloads · 30d	104	495 ✓
Category	Content & Feeds	Search

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

Release activity

Stealth Publish Easy Custom Auto Excerpt

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.