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.
At the WordPress Portsmouth Meetup – 15 Jan 2020 – some people were searching for a plugin to help improve the display of Archives / Categories when the list was very long.
[wp-top12 includes=collaps,archiv limit=20]In response to a question at the WordPress Portsmouth Meetup – Hands on Problem Solving clinic, here’s the top 20 plugins which include spam in their plugin name or short description.
On 15th January 2020 there were 55,310 plugins when I started to perform the extract. 55,311 before it finished! An increase of over 10 plugins per day.
Over 2000 plugins have been updated so far this year.
There are no changes in the top 12.
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.
Ever wondered how much it would cost to upgrade to the premium version of the top 12 WordPress plugins?
UpdraftPlus is the most popular backup plugin on wordpress.org. There are many more.
Jetpack is a very popular plugin.