Social Media Feed Gallery vs Smash Balloon Social Photo Feed

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

Social Media Feed Gallery

by A WP Life

Health A86

Smash Balloon Social Photo Feed

by Syed Balkhi

Health A91

Active-install trajectory

Social Media Feed Gallery Smash Balloon Social Photo Feed

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	Social Media Feed Gallery	Smash Balloon Social Photo Feed
Active installs Modeled from the public "N+" band and recent downloads.	2K–3K	1M–2M ✓
Install trend Change in active installs across the charted window.	0%	0%
Overall health	A · 86	A · 91 ✓
Maintenance How recently the plugin was updated.	100/100	100/100
Rating quality Volume-adjusted review quality.	81/100	98/100 ✓
Support Share of forum threads marked resolved.	70/100 ✓	68/100
Rating (adjusted)	4.22★	4.89★ ✓
Reviews	5	4,350 ✓
Ranking optimization How well the listing is tuned to rank on wp.org.	90/100	93/100 ✓
Removal risk Maintenance signals that precede a wp.org closure. Not an official status.	Low	Low
Last updated	8d ago	3d ago ✓
Downloads · 30d	526	702.7K ✓
Category	Social	Social

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

Release activity

Social Media Feed Gallery Smash Balloon Social Photo Feed

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.