Product Sort and Display for WooCommerce vs Products Per Page for WooCommerce

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

Products Per Page for WooCommerce is the safest pick: health A · 90 against 76 for Product Sort and Display for WooCommerce, led by stronger rating quality.

Product Sort and Display for WooCommerce

by Steve Truman

Health B76

Products Per Page for WooCommerce

by Jeroen Sormani

Health A90

Active-install trajectory

No change to chart. WordPress.org reports active installs in coarse bands, so neither plugin crossed a band during this window. The download trend below moves daily and is the better read over a period this short.

Metric	Product Sort and Display for WooCommerce	Products Per Page for WooCommerce
Active installs Modeled from the public "N+" band and recent downloads.	2K–3K	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	Stable
Overall health	B · 76	A · 90 ✓
Maintenance How recently the plugin was updated.	96/100	100/100 ✓
Rating quality Volume-adjusted review quality.	56/100	93/100 ✓
Support Share of forum threads marked resolved.	70/100	70/100
Rating (weighted for review count)	3.2★	4.7★ ✓
Reviews	45	80 ✓
Ranking optimization How well the listing is tuned to rank on wp.org.	94/100	98/100 ✓
Removal risk Maintenance signals that precede a wp.org closure. Not an official status.	Low	Low
Last updated	4mo ago	7d ago ✓
Downloads, last 30d	621	5.4K ✓
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.	+6%	+25%
Install conversion Active installs over lifetime downloads. Downloads include every update, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower.	0.6%	3.4% ✓
Category	eCommerce	eCommerce

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

Release activity

Product Sort and Display for WooCommerceProducts Per Page for WooCommerce

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.