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Ultimate Icon Shortcodes vs Better Font Awesome

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

Better Font Awesome is the only plugin here with enough reviews to score.

Active-install trajectory

Better Font Awesome moved down one install band, 70K+ to 60K+. That's a single step across the whole window, so there's no trajectory to draw. The download trend below moves daily.

Metric	Ultimate Icon Shortcodes	Better Font Awesome
Active installs Modeled from the public "N+" band and recent downloads.	10–20	60K–70K ✓
Active installs, change over ~6 months Compares the public install bands. One band step shows as the band change, not a percentage.	Stable ✓	-14%
Overall health	—	A · 88 ✓
Maintenance How recently the plugin was updated.	3/100	100/100 ✓
Rating quality Volume-adjusted review quality.	—	87/100 ✓
Support Share of forum threads marked resolved.	—	70/100 ✓
Rating (weighted for review count)	—	4.5★ ✓
Reviews	0	88 ✓
Ranking optimization How well the listing is tuned to rank on wp.org.	35/100	97/100 ✓
Removal risk Maintenance signals that precede a wp.org closure. Not an official status.	High	Low ✓
Last updated	13.0y ago	2mo ago ✓
Downloads, last 30d	29	9K ✓
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.	+22%	-62%
Install conversion Active installs over lifetime downloads. Downloads include every update, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower.	0.5%	4.7% ✓
Category	Uncategorized	Blocks

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

Release activity

Ultimate Icon ShortcodesBetter Font Awesome

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.