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YITH PayPal Express Checkout for WooCommerce vs Payment Gateway of PayPal for WooCommerce

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

Payment Gateway of PayPal for WooCommerce and YITH PayPal Express Checkout for WooCommerce are close on health (A · 86 vs B · 84), with nothing separating them on the sub-scores.

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	YITH PayPal Express Checkout for WooCommerce	Payment Gateway of PayPal for WooCommerce
Active installs Modeled from the public "N+" band and recent downloads.	1K–2K	6K–7K ✓
Active installs, change over ~6 months Compares the public install bands. One band step shows as the band change, not a percentage.	Stable ✓	-25%
Overall health	B · 84	A · 86 ✓
Maintenance How recently the plugin was updated.	100/100	100/100
Rating quality Volume-adjusted review quality.	77/100	80/100 ✓
Support Share of forum threads marked resolved.	70/100	70/100
Rating (weighted for review count)	4.1★	4.2★ ✓
Reviews	7	79 ✓
Ranking optimization How well the listing is tuned to rank on wp.org.	90/100	96/100 ✓
Removal risk Maintenance signals that precede a wp.org closure. Not an official status.	Low	Low
Last updated	11d ago ✓	1mo ago
Downloads, last 30d	2.6K ✓	1.7K
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.	+42%	-19%
Install conversion Active installs over lifetime downloads. Downloads include every update, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower.	0.6%	0.9% ✓
Category	Payments	Payments

✓ 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.