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Vanilla Bean vs Custom Favicon

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

Custom Favicon is the safest pick: health C · 69 against 45 for Vanilla Bean, led by lower removal risk.

Active-install trajectory

Vanilla Bean moved down one install band, 20+ to 10+. That's a single step across the whole window, so there's no trajectory to draw. The download trend below moves daily.

Metric	Vanilla Bean	Custom Favicon
Active installs Modeled from the public "N+" band and recent downloads.	10–20	5K–6K ✓
Active installs, change over ~6 months Compares the public install bands. One band step shows as the band change, not a percentage.	-50%	Stable ✓
Overall health	D · 45	C · 69 ✓
Maintenance How recently the plugin was updated.	3/100	50/100 ✓
Rating quality Volume-adjusted review quality.	76/100	90/100 ✓
Support Share of forum threads marked resolved.	70/100	70/100
Rating (weighted for review count)	4.1★	4.5★ ✓
Reviews	2	17 ✓
Ranking optimization How well the listing is tuned to rank on wp.org.	39/100	76/100 ✓
Removal risk Maintenance signals that precede a wp.org closure. Not an official status.	High	Low ✓
Last updated	6.3y ago	1.3y ago ✓
Downloads, last 30d	38	726 ✓
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.	-50%	+26%
Install conversion Active installs over lifetime downloads. Downloads include every update, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower.	0.2%	5.2% ✓
Category	Uncategorized	Media

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

Release activity

Vanilla BeanCustom Favicon

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.