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WooCommerce Frontend Shop Manager vs Ecwid by Lightspeed Ecommerce Shopping Cart

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

Ecwid by Lightspeed Ecommerce Shopping Cart is the safest pick: health A · 88 against 44 for WooCommerce Frontend Shop Manager, led by lower removal risk.

Active-install trajectory

WooCommerce Frontend Shop ManagerEcwid by Lightspeed Ecommerce Shopping Cart

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	WooCommerce Frontend Shop Manager	Ecwid by Lightspeed Ecommerce Shopping Cart
Active installs Modeled from the public "N+" band and recent downloads.	40–50	20K–30K ✓
Active installs, change over ~6 months Compares the public install bands. One band step shows as the band change, not a percentage.	-20%	Stable ✓
Overall health	D · 44	A · 88 ✓
Maintenance How recently the plugin was updated.	3/100	100/100 ✓
Rating quality Volume-adjusted review quality.	73/100	88/100 ✓
Support Share of forum threads marked resolved.	70/100	70/100
Rating (weighted for review count)	3.9★	4.5★ ✓
Reviews	4	228 ✓
Ranking optimization How well the listing is tuned to rank on wp.org.	37/100	97/100 ✓
Removal risk Maintenance signals that precede a wp.org closure. Not an official status.	High	Low ✓
Last updated	11.4y ago	1mo ago ✓
Downloads, last 30d	77	9.2K ✓
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.	+31%	+50%
Install conversion Active installs over lifetime downloads. Downloads include every update, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower.	0.2%	0.7% ✓
Category	eCommerce	eCommerce

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

Release activity

WooCommerce Frontend Shop ManagerEcwid by Lightspeed Ecommerce Shopping Cart

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.