WooCommerce New Product Badge vs WooCommerce PayPal Payments

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

WooCommerce New Product Badge

by James Koster

Health D46

WooCommerce PayPal Payments

by WooCommerce

Health B72

Active-install trajectory

WooCommerce New Product Badge WooCommerce PayPal Payments

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 New Product Badge	WooCommerce PayPal Payments
Active installs Modeled from the public "N+" band and recent downloads.	800–900	800K–900K ✓
Install trend Change in active installs across the charted window.	-11%	0% ✓
Overall health	D · 46	B · 72 ✓
Maintenance How recently the plugin was updated.	3/100	100/100 ✓
Rating quality Volume-adjusted review quality.	77/100 ✓	46/100
Support Share of forum threads marked resolved.	70/100 ✓	62/100
Rating (adjusted)	4.08★ ✓	2.87★
Reviews	12	577 ✓
Ranking optimization How well the listing is tuned to rank on wp.org.	38/100	84/100 ✓
Removal risk Maintenance signals that precede a wp.org closure. Not an official status.	High	Low ✓
Last updated	8.8y ago	25d ago ✓
Downloads · 30d	95	511.1K ✓
Category	eCommerce	eCommerce

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

Release activity

WooCommerce New Product Badge WooCommerce PayPal Payments

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.