The weekly brief · 22 Aug 2026 to 28 Aug 2026
Nested Pages changes hands
The week's largest handover: Nested Pages, at 90,000+ installs, moved from Kyle Phillips to Hook & Filter on 22 Aug 2026, together with Favorites (10,000+). Both records carry the full transfer evidence.
Other hands changed too: IP Location Block (10,000+) moved from Darko G. to Ideologix on 25 Aug 2026; WPVulnerability (10,000+) moved from Javier Casares to ROBOTSTXT.es on 24 Aug 2026; a 4-plugin portfolio led by Jooosi Fon – Use Custom Fonts, Google Fonts or Adobe Fonts (5,000+) moved from Sua to suasgn on 25 Aug 2026. In all, 14 plugins changed hands across 9 handovers this week.
107 plugins left the directory this week. The largest by last recorded installs: SOGO Add Script to Individual Pages Header Footer (20,000+), Media Cloud for Bunny CDN, Amazon S3, Cloudflare R2, Google Cloud Storage, DigitalOcean and more (7,000+), WP BackItUp Community Edition (6,000+). wordpress.org removes a closed plugin's page the same day it closes; each last good record is preserved in the registry.
24 plugins returned to the directory, led by Tagembed: Social Media Feeds and Customer Reviews Widget (9,000+) and Advanced Views for Custom Fields and Posts (3,000+).
After long silence: Really Simple CAPTCHA, at 300,000+ installs shipped a release on 23 Aug 2026, at least 540 days after its previous one. 286 more did the same; the dormancy record has each.
The week in numbers
The record, in full
- The rolling transfer record: every handover of the trailing 90 days, with evidence.
- The dormancy record: plugins past 540 days without a release, most widely installed first.
- Closed in 2026: every plugin removed this year, last good record preserved.
The registry, by email
One email a week with what changed across the directory: every ownership transfer, closure and dormancy break observed. New blog posts arrive as they publish, and each kind of mail has its own opt-out link.
Every weekly brief · This brief is generated from the registry’s event records for the seven days shown. Every claim links to the record that carries its evidence.