Gravity Forms vs The Washington Post

Gravity Forms (The most powerful form and workflow solution available for WordPress.) and The Washington Post both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

The Washington Post (rank #510) holds a narrow lead over Gravity Forms (rank #662) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (37 vs 32). The gap of 5 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

On code quality (the state of repositories, tests, releases and polish), The Washington Post is clearly ahead of Gravity Forms. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Gravity Forms is clearly ahead of The Washington Post. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), The Washington Post is slightly ahead of Gravity Forms. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), The Washington Post is clearly ahead of Gravity Forms. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Gravity Forms is clearly ahead of The Washington Post.

Gravity Forms carries 112 GitHub stars across 8 public repos, with 2 repositories active in the last 90 days and 1 external contributors on record. The Washington Post shows 2,751 stars across 91 public repos, 3 active in the last 90 days and 0 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but The Washington Post's footprint is roughly 24.6x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Gravity Forms is the stronger read for anyone weighting education. The Washington Post looks better where code quality is the deciding factor. The table below breaks the scores down pillar by pillar; the linked profiles cover the underlying repos, docs and community signals in full.