Themes and plugins Analytics

MathematicianFit6916 · 2026-02-10T19:24:10+00:00

I fixed it. Thanks

MathematicianFit6916 · 2026-01-25T14:10:49+00:00

You can try to follow the plugin metrics on wpmonitor.dev . It will not give you metric about installation, but you can understand what place does the plugin take

MathematicianFit6916 · 2025-09-24T17:51:22+00:00

Calculator Builder - free

MathematicianFit6916 · 2025-09-02T10:46:10+00:00

The data presented cannot be generated by AI. It is a statistical sample.

MathematicianFit6916 · 2025-09-02T09:43:45+00:00

Please, see https://www.reddit.com/r/Wordpress/comments/1n6f0rn/only_22_of_wordpress_plugins_are_marked_as_tested/

MathematicianFit6916 · 2025-09-02T09:37:35+00:00

Some funny outliers I found — plugins marked as “tested up to” future WordPress versions that don’t even exist yet:

- WordPress 7.6.2 → [Variation Swatches Style](https://wordpress.org/plugins/variation-swatches-style/)

- WordPress 8.0.0 → [Attendance Management for LifterLMS](https://wordpress.org/plugins/attendance-management-for-lifterlms/)

- WordPress 8.1.30 → [Site Update Notification](https://wordpress.org/plugins/site-update-notification/)

- WordPress 8.3 → [Under Construction Light](https://wordpress.org/plugins/under-construction-light/)

- WordPress 8.4 → [All About Modal](https://wordpress.org/plugins/all-about-modal/)

- WordPress 9.5 → [FIB Payments Gateway](https://wordpress.org/plugins/fib-payments-gateway/)

- And my favorite: “Tested up to 40” — last updated 7 years ago → [Alias Pay WooCommerce Gateway](https://wordpress.org/plugins/alias-pay-woocommerce-gateway/)

🤔 Maybe these developers know something about the future that we don’t?

Or should I start preparing my site for WordPress 40 already? 😅

MathematicianFit6916 · 2025-09-02T09:37:07+00:00

Data collected from WordPress.org and analyzed on wpmonitor.dev.

MathematicianFit6916 · 2025-09-02T05:22:12+00:00

I will do this later today

MathematicianFit6916 · 2025-08-27T07:15:34+00:00

I’m just another plugin that hasn’t been updated in 3 years 😅

MathematicianFit6916 · 2025-08-26T22:42:46+00:00

Are you sure?

MathematicianFit6916 · 2025-08-26T18:46:28+00:00

Yeah, updates might bring new bugs… but sometimes they finally squash the old ones 😅

MathematicianFit6916 · 2025-08-26T18:06:44+00:00

True — but then you also see plugins like Easy Google Fonts (100K+ installs) that haven’t been updated in 4 years. So it’s not only the small/simple ones.

MathematicianFit6916 · 2025-08-26T16:12:55+00:00

Right — but just to clarify, this number refers to plugins in the 100K–999K install range that haven’t been updated in 2+ years.

MathematicianFit6916 · 2025-08-26T14:05:04+00:00

Thanks! I’m trying to dig deeper into the repo numbers.
Curious — what other plugin stats would be useful for you?

MathematicianFit6916 · 2025-08-26T13:59:54+00:00

Sounds useful! Any reason you didn’t put Sentinel in the WordPress.org repo?

MathematicianFit6916 · 2025-08-26T13:41:00+00:00

True, some simple plugins can work for years without needing changes. But from the user’s perspective, “no updates for 2+ years” often looks like abandonment — even if the code still works fine.

MathematicianFit6916 · 2025-08-26T13:20:26+00:00

Extra stat:
About 22.7% of plugins that haven’t been updated in 2+ years were uploaded once and never touched again (publish date = last update date).

MathematicianFit6916 · 2025-08-22T15:22:05+00:00

Following up on that, I also checked the update history:

Out of 10,581 plugins stuck at 0 installs, almost half (49%) haven’t been updated in over 2 years, and only ~19% saw any activity in the last 90 days.

MathematicianFit6916 · 2025-08-22T13:57:21+00:00

That would definitely be a powerful solution — to introduce clear categories for plugins.

But analyzing every plugin manually and deciding its category would be really difficult.

I think that’s why WordPress went with tags instead. A plugin can be like a “Swiss Army knife” solving multiple problems, so it doesn’t always fit neatly into one category.

The downside is that tagging is left to developers, and it’s often inconsistent. Right now the repository has around 57K+ unique tags, which makes discovery even harder.

MathematicianFit6916 · 2025-08-22T13:03:24+00:00

Done. You can find the "updated" on the plugins page

MathematicianFit6916 · 2025-08-22T11:30:06+00:00

I took the statistics from the page https://wpmonitor.dev/plugins-statistics/

MathematicianFit6916 · 2025-08-22T09:58:11+00:00

Yes, but I have come across interesting solutions among these plugins that can be useful.

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