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WP Spry Menu vs Automatically Hierarchic Categories in Menu

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

Automatically Hierarchic Categories in Menu is the safest pick: health A · 86 against 45 for WP Spry Menu, led by lower removal risk.

Active-install trajectory

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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 Spry Menu	Automatically Hierarchic Categories in Menu
Active installs Modeled from the public "N+" band and recent downloads.	60–70	2K–3K ✓
Active installs, change over ~6 months Compares the public install bands. One band step shows as the band change, not a percentage.	-14%	Stable ✓
Overall health	D · 45	A · 86 ✓
Maintenance How recently the plugin was updated.	3/100	100/100 ✓
Rating quality Volume-adjusted review quality.	74/100	82/100 ✓
Support Share of forum threads marked resolved.	70/100	70/100
Rating (weighted for review count)	4.0★	4.3★ ✓
Reviews	1	13 ✓
Ranking optimization How well the listing is tuned to rank on wp.org.	36/100	92/100 ✓
Removal risk Maintenance signals that precede a wp.org closure. Not an official status.	High	Low ✓
Last updated	12.2y ago	3mo ago ✓
Downloads, last 30d	73	682 ✓
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.	-5%	+13%
Install conversion Active installs over lifetime downloads. Downloads include every update, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower.	0.2%	5.6% ✓
Category	Admin & Utilities	Admin & Utilities

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

Release activity

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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.