Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026
Yoast SEO – Advanced SEO with real-time guidance and built-in AI
Active installs10,000,000+ at API ceiling
Current authorYoast
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release6 days ago 01 Sep 2026
Support31 / 34 resolved, last 2 months
Releases on record127
Rating4.8 /5 · 27,819
Added to directory11 Oct 2010
Requires WP6.9
Requires PHP7.4
Version lag0 up to date
Tested up toWP 7.1 up to date
PluginPedia reports published data and observable changes. It does not rate plugin quality or safety, infer intent, or make recommendations. These are observations rather than a verdict. How this works
Ownership
Held by Yoast throughout, with no change of ownership observed since daily tracking began on 02 Aug 2026.
Full observed history, including every field transition
Committing accounts
Read from the plugin’s public release log, so these predate this registry. A committing account is not an owner. Thirty accounts commit to WooCommerce and it has never changed hands.
| Account | Releases | First | Last |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yoast | 122 | 25 Jan 2022 | 04 Aug 2026 |
| lopo | 3 | 11 Jul 2024 | 17 Mar 2026 |
This registry did not observe a transfer; it read these names off a public log. Whether that reflects a change of ownership is not something the directory publishes.
Adoption
How widely the plugin is installed, and what the people running it think of it. WordPress.org rounds install figures to one significant digit, so they describe an order of magnitude rather than a headcount, and this plugin sits at 10,000,000, the highest figure the API will report, so its true install count is unknowable and cannot be compared against another plugin at the same ceiling.
Very widely adopted: 10,000,000+ active installs. In the top tier of the directory by install count.
644,252 downloads a day over the last 7 days, rising 395% against the 7 days before. Downloads are counted exactly and without a ceiling, so they show movement the rounded install figure cannot.
07 Aug 2026peak 3,579,711/day07 Sep 2026
3 ratings left in the last 39 days, averaging 3.7 out of 5 (1 of them one or two stars). Too few to compare against the lifetime average.
Daily record
Every field we record, one column per observation. Fields that never moved are named once rather than repeated across every column. A row of identical numbers would be padding.
| Field | 25 Aug | 26 Aug | 27 Aug | 28 Aug | 29 Aug | 30 Aug | 31 Aug | 01 Sep | 02 Sep | 03 Sep | 04 Sep | 05 Sep | 06 Sep | 07 Sep |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Downloads that day | — | 88,153 | 139,336 | 169,804 | 103,706 | 146,638 | 83,446 | 260,214 | 21,904 | 3,579,711 | 229,813 | 196,908 | 120,012 | 101,203 |
| Ratings total | 27,818 | 27,818 | 27,818 | 27,818 | 27,819 | 27,819 | 27,819 | 27,819 | 27,819 | 27,819 | 27,819 | 27,819 | 27,819 | 27,819 |
| Version | 28.3 | 28.3 | 28.3 | 28.3 | 28.3 | 28.3 | 28.3 | 28.4 | 28.4 | 28.4 | 28.4 | 28.4 | 28.4 | 28.4 |
| Support threads | 41 | 38 | 38 | 39 | 39 | 38 | 37 | 38 | 38 | 39 | 39 | 37 | 36 | 34 |
| Threads resolved | 41 | 38 | 38 | 38 | 38 | 37 | 35 | 36 | 36 | 37 | 36 | 34 | 33 | 31 |
Unchanged throughout: active installs (10,000,000+)
37 days of observation, most recent 14 shown.
Maintenance
When it was last released, and how far its declared compatibility has drifted from current WordPress.
Added to directory15 years ago 11 Oct 2010
Requires WP6.9
Requires PHP7.4
Version lagcurrent
Is anyone still maintaining this?
- Last released 01 Sep 2026, 6 days ago.
- Declares compatibility with WordPress 7.1, which is current.
- 31 of 34 support threads answered in the last two months.
- The same account maintains 6 other plugins, 4 of which were updated in the last 90 days. the account is active.
A plugin that does one thing correctly may need no changes for years; a long gap is not, by itself, evidence of neglect.
History
Everything dated that this registry holds about the plugin, most recent first. Releases carry the author’s own release date; everything else is dated to when it was observed.
Entries marked from the release log predate this registry, and daily observation began 02 Aug 2026. They were read from the plugin’s public SVN history after the fact, not watched as they happened. Everything else was observed directly.
- 01 Sep 20266 days agoVersion 28.4 released
- 18 Aug 202620 days agoVersion 28.3 released
- 04 Aug 20261 month agoVersion 28.2 released
- 02 Aug 20261 month agoFirst observed by PluginPediaDaily snapshots of this plugin’s directory record begin here. Everything above this line is observed; anything before it comes from fields the API itself reports.
- 21 Jul 20262 months agoVersion 28.1 released
- 06 Jul 20262 months agoVersion 28.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by Yoast.
- 22 Jun 20263 months agoVersion 27.9 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by Yoast.
- 10 Jun 20263 months agoVersion 27.8 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by Yoast.
- 27 May 20263 months agoVersion 27.7 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by Yoast.
- 12 May 20264 months agoVersion 27.6 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by Yoast.
- 28 Apr 20264 months agoVersion 27.5 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by Yoast.
- 14 Apr 20265 months agoVersion 27.4 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by Yoast.
- 31 Mar 20265 months agoVersion 27.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by Yoast.
- 17 Mar 20266 months agoVersion 27.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by lopo.
- 03 Mar 20266 months agoVersion 27.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by lopo.
- 03 Mar 20266 months agoVersion 27.1.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by Yoast.
- 17 Feb 20267 months agoVersion 27.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by Yoast.
- 25 Jan 20224.5 years ago111 earlier releasesfrom the release logBetween 25 Jan 2022 and 03 Feb 2026. Listed individually in the public release log rather than here.
- 11 Oct 201015 years agoAdded to the WordPress.org directoryReported by the plugin API as the date this plugin was added.
What we know, and what we don’t
Everything on this page in one place, including the gaps, so that nothing here is mistaken for a clean bill of health.
What we know
- It has been held by Yoast for all 39 days we have observed it.
- It was last released 6 days ago (01 Sep 2026).
- Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 7.1, which is current.
- WordPress.org reports 10,000,000+ active installs.
- It carries 27,819 ratings, averaging 4.8 out of 5.
- 31 of 34 support threads in the last two months are marked resolved.
What can’t be known
- Its true install count. WordPress.org stops counting at its ceiling, so this plugin cannot be told apart from another reported at the same figure. More observation does not help; the source is not measuring it.
Every record on this site, this one included, works under the same limits. We read what WordPress.org publishes about a plugin, never the plugin’s own code, so nothing here says whether a plugin is well built or safe. Install counts reach us already rounded; a change smaller than a band step doesn’t show. We don’t track security advisories yet. For anything older than our first observation we rely on the plugin’s public release log, where one exists. What this registry can and cannot see
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