Wxs Text Watermarking vs Image Watermark

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

Image Watermark is the only plugin here with enough reviews to score.

Wxs Text Watermarking

by 天无神话

Health B77

Image Watermark

by dFactory

Health A85

Active-install trajectory

Wxs Text WatermarkingImage Watermark

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	Wxs Text Watermarking	Image Watermark
Active installs Modeled from the public "N+" band and recent downloads.	10–20	40K–50K ✓
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	—	A · 85 ✓
Maintenance How recently the plugin was updated.	92/100	100/100 ✓
Rating quality Volume-adjusted review quality.	—	80/100 ✓
Support Share of forum threads marked resolved.	—	68/100 ✓
Rating (weighted for review count)	—	4.2★ ✓
Reviews	0	299 ✓
Ranking optimization How well the listing is tuned to rank on wp.org.	88/100	90/100 ✓
Removal risk Maintenance signals that precede a wp.org closure. Not an official status.	Low	Low
Last updated	5mo ago	17d ago ✓
Downloads, last 30d	83	23.7K ✓
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.	+34%	+74%
Install conversion Active installs over lifetime downloads. Downloads include every update, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower.	1.0%	3.2% ✓
Category	Uncategorized	Uncategorized

✓ 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.