The plugin ecosystem, in numbers

Install distribution, niche leaders, the rating landscape and live momentum — measured across 68,885 WordPress plugins.

Updated Aug 2, 2026

Plugins ranked

68,885

Total active installs

415.6M

Plugins tagged

67,482

Average rating

4.47

The shape of the ecosystem

Every plugin sorted into an active-install bucket. Bar height is a log-scaled plugin count.

The graveyard

59.6%

41,024 plugins under 20 installs

The 10K club

2,211

just 3.2% clear 10K installs

The million club

plugins with 1M+ active installs

22,430

29,668

9,714

100

4,862

1,742

10K

402

100K

10M

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Top WordPress.org tags by number of plugins — with the combined install reach and average rating of each niche.

Niche	Plugins	Install reach	Avg rating
1 woocommerce	7,758	12.4M	4.5
2 widget	2,623	3.5M	4.3
3 seo	2,197	29.3M	4.6
4 AI	1,799	4.6M	4.8
5 admin	1,753	4M	4.6
6 post	1,406	1.4M	4.4
7 shortcode	1,392	1.5M	4.5
8 security	1,384	26.8M	4.6
9 posts	1,243	1.4M	4.5
10 gutenberg	1,157	18.8M	4.7
11 ecommerce	1,127	10.3M	4.2
12 comments	1,125	6.2M	4.5