Research · recomputed daily
Research
Analysis this registry can produce because it watches the whole directory every day. Each piece recomputes itself rather than freezing on the day it was written.
Who owns WordPress?
Fifty wordpress.org accounts hold 61.7% of every plugin install this registry can count, spread across 39,693 publishing accounts, and every limit in the source data means the true figure is higher. Read
In progress
Two further censuses are computed and shown here in summary; each earns its own page once the series is long enough to say something the numbers alone cannot.
Bus factor
- 1,173 of 2,198 plugins above 10,000 installs list a single committer (53%).
- Those plugins account for 118,360,000+ installs between them.
- Above 100,000 installs: 198 of 467.
Dormancy
- 53% of the directory has had no release in 18 months (38,228 plugins).
- 28,199 have had none in five years.
- 235 of them are installed on 10,000 sites or more.
Silence is not a fault: a plugin that does one thing correctly may need no changes for years. These counts describe the ecosystem, not the plugins in it.