Remote Website Management by Watchful vs The WP Remote WordPress Plugin

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

Remote Website Management by Watchful

by watchful

Health A86

The WP Remote WordPress Plugin

by akshatc

Health A89

Active-install trajectory

Remote Website Management by Watchful The WP Remote WordPress Plugin

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	Remote Website Management by Watchful	The WP Remote WordPress Plugin
Active installs Modeled from the public "N+" band and recent downloads.	3K–4K	30K–40K ✓
Install trend Change in active installs across the charted window.	-25%	0% ✓
Overall health	A · 86	A · 89 ✓
Maintenance How recently the plugin was updated.	100/100	100/100
Rating quality Volume-adjusted review quality.	82/100	89/100 ✓
Support Share of forum threads marked resolved.	70/100	70/100
Rating (adjusted)	4.27★	4.51★ ✓
Reviews	6	74 ✓
Ranking optimization How well the listing is tuned to rank on wp.org.	90/100	97/100 ✓
Removal risk Maintenance signals that precede a wp.org closure. Not an official status.	Low	Low
Last updated	1mo ago	yesterday ✓
Downloads · 30d	1.0K	85.9K ✓
Category	Backup	Backup

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

Release activity

Remote Website Management by Watchful The WP Remote WordPress Plugin

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.