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Virtue vs Charitable

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

Charitable is the safest pick: health D · 54 against 46 for Virtue, led by stronger maintenance.

Active-install trajectory

Charitable moved down one install band, 200+ to 100+. That's a single step across the whole window, so there's no trajectory to draw. The download trend below moves daily.

Metric	Virtue	Charitable
Active installs Modeled from the public "N+" band and recent downloads.	—	100–200 ✓
Active installs, change over ~6 months Compares the public install bands. One band step shows as the band change, not a percentage.	—	-50% ✓
Overall health	D · 46	D · 54 ✓
Maintenance How recently the plugin was updated.	6/100	25/100 ✓
Rating quality Volume-adjusted review quality.	74/100	76/100 ✓
Support Share of forum threads marked resolved.	70/100	70/100
Rating (weighted for review count)	4.0★	4.1★ ✓
Reviews	1	2 ✓
Ranking optimization How well the listing is tuned to rank on wp.org.	48/100	62/100 ✓
Removal risk Maintenance signals that precede a wp.org closure. Not an official status.	Elevated	Elevated
Last updated	3.4y ago	2.0y ago ✓
Downloads, last 30d	152	163 ✓
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.	+13%	-12%
Install conversion Active installs over lifetime downloads. Downloads include every update, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower.	—	0.5% ✓
Category	eCommerce	Payments

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

Release activity

VirtueCharitable

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.