WP Maintenance Mode & Site Under Construction vs Coming Soon & Maintenance Mode by Colorlib

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

Coming Soon & Maintenance Mode by Colorlib is the safest pick: health A · 89 against 82 for WP Maintenance Mode & Site Under Construction, led by stronger rating quality.

WP Maintenance Mode & Site Under Construction

by wp-buy

Health B82

Coming Soon & Maintenance Mode by Colorlib

by colorlibplugins

Health A89

Active-install trajectory

WP Maintenance Mode & Site Under ConstructionComing Soon & Maintenance Mode by Colorlib

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	WP Maintenance Mode & Site Under Construction	Coming Soon & Maintenance Mode by Colorlib
Active installs Modeled from the public "N+" band and recent downloads.	3K–4K	5K–6K ✓
Active installs, change over ~6 months Compares the public install bands. One band step shows as the band change, not a percentage.	Stable ✓	-29%
Overall health	B · 82	A · 89 ✓
Maintenance How recently the plugin was updated.	100/100	100/100
Rating quality Volume-adjusted review quality.	70/100	90/100 ✓
Support Share of forum threads marked resolved.	70/100	70/100
Rating (weighted for review count)	3.8★	4.6★ ✓
Reviews	4	42 ✓
Ranking optimization How well the listing is tuned to rank on wp.org.	89/100	97/100 ✓
Removal risk Maintenance signals that precede a wp.org closure. Not an official status.	Low	Low
Last updated	2mo ago	1mo ago ✓
Downloads, last 30d	1.3K	2.2K ✓
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.	-22%	+41%
Install conversion Active installs over lifetime downloads. Downloads include every update, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower.	5.1% ✓	1.7%
Category	Admin & Utilities	Admin & Utilities

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

Release activity

WP Maintenance Mode & Site Under ConstructionComing Soon & Maintenance Mode by Colorlib

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.