Filter Orders by Product for WooCommerce vs Simple Taxonomy Ordering

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

Filter Orders by Product for WooCommerce is the safest pick: health A · 85 against 51 for Simple Taxonomy Ordering, led by lower removal risk.

Filter Orders by Product for WooCommerce

by Kowsar Hossain

Health A85

Simple Taxonomy Ordering

by Evan Herman

Health D51

Active-install trajectory

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

Metric	Filter Orders by Product for WooCommerce	Simple Taxonomy Ordering
Active installs Modeled from the public "N+" band and recent downloads.	4K–5K	10K–20K ✓
Active installs, change over ~6 months Compares the public install bands. One band step shows as the band change, not a percentage.	Stable ✓	20K+ → 10K+
Overall health	A · 85 ✓	D · 51
Maintenance How recently the plugin was updated.	94/100 ✓	5/100
Rating quality Volume-adjusted review quality.	84/100	91/100 ✓
Support Share of forum threads marked resolved.	70/100	70/100
Rating (weighted for review count)	4.3★	4.6★ ✓
Reviews	15	28 ✓
Ranking optimization How well the listing is tuned to rank on wp.org.	93/100 ✓	56/100
Removal risk Maintenance signals that precede a wp.org closure. Not an official status.	Low ✓	Elevated
Last updated	5mo ago ✓	3.6y ago
Downloads, last 30d	1K	7.6K ✓
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.	+23%	+14%
Install conversion Active installs over lifetime downloads. Downloads include every update, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower.	6.5% ✓	2.5%
Category	Admin & Utilities	Admin & Utilities

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

Release activity

Filter Orders by Product for WooCommerceSimple Taxonomy Ordering

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.