On 14th June 2020 there were 56,743 plugins.
At WordUp Pompey! last night, during questions after Steve Wood’s talk on Wordfence, another Steve asked about a page hit counter that suggested editing a file to add some code. He asked what Wordfence would do when it saw a changed file.
Steve hadn’t yet found a page hit counter he liked. So here’s a list.
On 15th May there were 56,321 plugins on wordpress.org.
Less than half of the total plugins have been updated in the last 3 years.
On 15th April there were 55,805 plugins on wordpress.org.
On 8th February 2020 there were 55,609 plugins on wordpress.org. Will the number of new plugins added per day ever tail off?
On 30th January there were 55,481 plugins on wordpress.org. Again an increase of over 10 plugins per day since mid Jan.
On 1st Jan 2020, there were 55,134 plugins on wordpress.org, when I performed my extract; an increase of 72 since the last week. Three plugins have now reached over 150 million downloads: Akismet, Jetpack and WordPress SEO. Five over 100 million.
There are no changes in the top 12.
On 26th Dec 2019, there were 55,062 plugins on wordpress.org, when I performed my extract; an increase of 138 since the last week. So the number of plugins must have silently reached 55 thousand at the start of the week.
There’s one change in the top 12, optinmonster has replaced wp-super-cache.
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