WordPress.org plugin growth dataset, October 2026
Published by JnK Plugins: https://jnkplugins.com/blog/wordpress-plugin-submissions-2026/
Collected 18 October 2026. Free to reuse; a link back is appreciated.

FILES

plugins-team-weekly-stats.csv
  One row per weekly stats post published by the WordPress.org Plugins Team
  (formerly Plugin Review Team) on make.wordpress.org/updates, Sep 2023 to
  12 Oct 2026. Values are copied as published; source_url points to each post.
  Some weeks have no post. The posts do not define the exact period behind
  "requested", "approved" etc. Queue fields are a snapshot at posting time.
  queue_total = new + pending. queue_waiting_author = plugins waiting for the
  author to reply or fix something, not waiting for a reviewer.

new-plugins-since-2023-11.csv
  Every plugin returned by the wordpress.org plugins API (info/1.2,
  browse=new) with an "added" date from 1 Nov 2023 onwards, as of 18 Oct 2026.
  active_installs = 0 means "fewer than 10" (that is how the API reports it).

new-plugins-by-month.csv
  The previous file grouped by month added.

KNOWN BIASES

  Survivorship: plugins that were closed or removed no longer appear in the
  API, so older months are undercounted relative to recent ones.
  Age: newer plugins have had less time to gain installs or ratings, so the
  share with 10+ installs falls for recent months for that reason alone.
