Curious about what is going on with plugins in the WordPress Plugin Directory? Through our collection of data for own search engine, we have a lot of data on the plugins in the directory. We have some key stats below. Looking for something additional? Get in touch. (The data is up to 45 days out of date for plugins that haven’t been recently updated.)
Plugins Added to Directory in 2025
- There are 2,145 plugins added in 2025 in the directory.
- 1,760 of those have fewer than 10 installs (82.1% of the total).
- 75 of those have 100 or more installs (3.5% of the total).
- 1,454 are marked as tested with WordPress 6.8 (67.8% of the total).
Plugins Added to Directory in 2024
- There are 3,555 plugins added in 2024 in the directory.
- 1,703 of those have fewer than 10 installs (47.9% of the total).
- 585 of those have 100 or more installs (16.5% of the total).
- 1,026 are marked as tested with WordPress 6.8 (28.9% of the total).
Plugins Added to Directory in 2023
- There are 2,033 plugins added in 2023 in the directory.
- 688 of those have fewer than 10 installs (33.8% of the total).
- 577 of those have 100 or more installs (28.4% of the total).
- 469 are marked as tested with WordPress 6.8 (23.1% of the total).
Install Count of All Plugins in Directory
- 69 have a million or more installs (0.1% of the total).
- 493 have 100,000 or more installs (0.8% of the total).
- 2,410 have 10,000 or more installs (4.1% of the total).
- 7,593 have 1,000 or more installs (12.8% of the total).
- 17,654 have more than 100 installs (29.7% of the total).
- 14,295 have fewer than 10 installs (24.1% of the total).
Marked as Tested With WordPress Version
- 8,924 plugins have been marked as tested with the latest version of WordPress, 6.8 (15% of the total). Version 6.8 was released on April 15.
- 5,389 plugins have been marked as tested with version 6.7 (9.1% of the total).
- 2,672 plugins have been marked as tested with version 6.6 (4.5% of the total).
- 34,210 plugins have been marked as tested with a version below 6.0 (57.6% of the total).
- 57 plugins with a million or more installs have been marked as tested with the latest version of WordPress, 6.8 (82.6% of the total).
- 9 plugins with a million or more installs been marked as tested with version 6.7 (13% of the total).
- 1 plugins with a million or more installs have been marked as tested with version 6.6 (1.4% of the total).
- 3 plugins from WordPress.org have been marked as tested with the latest version of WordPress, 6.8 (33.3% of the total).
Last Updated
- 13,295 plugins have been updated in 2025 (22.4% of the total).
- 7,009 plugins were last updated in 2024 (11.8% of the total).
- 3,393 plugins were last updated in 2023 (5.7% of the total).