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Top WordPress accessibility plugins for 2026: Ally, UserWay, and the leading newcomer
The two install leaders take different approaches, and 2026 newcomer Widewalk adds local-only operation and headless support. The right choice…
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What the plugin directory data turns out to mean, written up one question at a time. Every figure links back to the page it came from.
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Most closed plugins were withdrawn for guidelines, disuse, or by the author
About 50,700 plugins have been closed. Guideline violations account for about a third of them. Security issues account for about one in eight.
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A five-star rating usually means one person clicked it
More than half of live plugins have never been rated. About 8,800 have exactly one five-star review. Once a plugin has ten ratings, almost all of…
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85% of plugins credit one person. They hold about 40% of the installs.
The contributor list is a different count from how many plugins a publisher already has. One name is the normal case. About 60% of installs sit on…
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A third of plugins say they were tested on WordPress 7
About 24,000 live plugins name a WordPress 7 release in Tested up to. Among plugins with 10,000 installs, about three in four do. The PHP requirement…
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Most new plugins come from small publishers. Most of the installs do not.
More than 16,000 plugins were added to the WordPress directory in the last twelve months. About three out of four came from a publisher with three or…
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14,000+ new WordPress plugins in 2026. What helped the few that grew?
More than 14,000 WordPress plugins arrived in the first nine months of 2026. Fewer than one in 200 reached 1,000 installs. Here is what the stronger…
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64,231 tags and no categories
The directory classifies plugins with free-text tags typed by their authors. We asked a model to build a real taxonomy, then measured it.
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Half the plugin directory has gone quiet
35,652 live plugins have not shipped a release in two years, and you can install every one of them today. Installability is not maintenance.
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What 73,049 plugins actually look like
The plugin directory is usually described with one number. Counted properly, 68 plugins are on a million sites and 25,619 are on fewer than ten.
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Nothing here is asserted without the query behind it being somewhere on this site.