Storefront Visual Hook Guide vs Hide Categories and Products for Woocommerce

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

Hide Categories and Products for Woocommerce is the safest pick: health B · 84 against 47 for Storefront Visual Hook Guide, led by lower removal risk.

Storefront Visual Hook Guide

by Antonio Sanchez

Health D47

Hide Categories and Products for Woocommerce

by NOUS Open Usefull & Simple

Health B84

Active-install trajectory

Storefront Visual Hook GuideHide Categories and Products for Woocommerce

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	Storefront Visual Hook Guide	Hide Categories and Products for Woocommerce
Active installs Modeled from the public "N+" band and recent downloads.	40–50	10K–20K ✓
Active installs, change over ~6 months Compares the public install bands. One band step shows as the band change, not a percentage.	-33%	Stable ✓
Overall health	D · 47	B · 84 ✓
Maintenance How recently the plugin was updated.	3/100	100/100 ✓
Rating quality Volume-adjusted review quality.	81/100 ✓	75/100
Support Share of forum threads marked resolved.	70/100	70/100
Rating (weighted for review count)	4.2★ ✓	4.0★
Reviews	9	29 ✓
Ranking optimization How well the listing is tuned to rank on wp.org.	43/100	96/100 ✓
Removal risk Maintenance signals that precede a wp.org closure. Not an official status.	High	Low ✓
Last updated	5.7y ago	1mo ago ✓
Downloads, last 30d	79	4.6K ✓
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.	-32%	+170%
Install conversion Active installs over lifetime downloads. Downloads include every update, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower.	0.4%	9.0% ✓
Category	eCommerce	eCommerce

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

Release activity

Storefront Visual Hook GuideHide Categories and Products for Woocommerce

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.