Icon Indexa climbed 31,540 places, the sharpest rise of the week. 626 plugins were published, and 65,673 had a snapshot at both ends of 23 Aug – 30 Aug 2026.
The week in numbers
71,371
Plugins tracked
407.5M
Combined installs
626
New this week
-0.19%
Install growth
Growth is measured across the 65,673 plugins holding 398.2M installs that have a snapshot at both ends of the week.
Biggest climbers
The sharpest rises in the popularity ranking over seven days.
| Plugin | Rank | Moved | Installs |
|---|---|---|---|
| Icon Indexa | #15,788 | ▲ 31,540 | 119 |
| LocalForm – Form Builder for Contact Forms, Surveys & Event Registration | #16,122 | ▲ 27,732 | 110 |
| Wbcom Designs – WB Ad Manager | #10,634 | ▲ 12,536 | 342 |
| AI Search for WooCommerce – Semantic Search | #14,516 | ▲ 7,766 | 155 |
| xSpeed Cache – AI-Powered Performance Hub with MCP, Caching & CDN | #16,610 | ▲ 7,289 | 97 |
| YLabs AI Assistant Connector | #10,857 | ▲ 5,667 | 322 |
| Rino's Toolkit for Elementor | #16,408 | ▲ 4,981 | 102 |
| Milo Subscriptions – Subscriptions for WooCommerce and Recurring Payments | #16,712 | ▲ 4,740 | 100 |
Breakout growth
Established plugins — 1,000 installs or more a week ago — adding users fastest.
| Plugin | Installs | Growth | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| List Products By Category Widget for WooCommerce | 1.5K | +47.1% | #6,966 |
| PiWeb Live sales notification for WooCommerce | 49K | +46% | #801 |
| Shopkeeper Extender | 6.4K | +32.5% | #2,868 |
| ThinkRank AI SEO – AI SEO Plugin for WordPress: Schema, XML Sitemaps, Meta Tags, Search Console & Local SEO | 10.7K | +31.2% | #2,144 |
| Siteboosterseo | 3.9K | +29.1% | #3,734 |
| AutoPen – AI Content Writer | 3.9K | +29.1% | #3,732 |
Rising stars
Small plugins — under 5,000 installs — climbing hardest. This is where next year’s big names are hiding.
| Plugin | Installs | Moved | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Icon Indexa | 119 | ▲ 31,540 | #15,788 |
| Blog Blocks – Gutenberg Blocks for Content Writers | 83 | ▲ 30,516 | #17,518 |
| LocalForm – Form Builder for Contact Forms, Surveys & Event Registration | 110 | ▲ 27,732 | #16,122 |
| Deskmode Suite | 52 | ▲ 25,200 | #20,348 |
| SEO'n'AI – Image Locator & Find Unused Images | 71 | ▲ 24,634 | #18,304 |
Just published
New to WordPress.org this week.
- Elavon Payment Gateway for WooCommerce — Start accepting card payments in one simple, seamless, secure solution from Elavon Payments.
- SnowSEO — Connect WordPress to SnowSEO for AI-assisted content publishing, scheduling, and analytics.
- GemBooking – Appointment Booking, Booking Calendar & Reservations — Booking calendar and appointment scheduling for WordPress. Take appointment, event, rental and resource bookings with pa…
- Joinotify
- Kaddora MailFlow SMTP
- Wonderful Repeated Hit Blocker for Wordfence — Blocks IP addresses that Wordfence has logged as attacking your site repeatedly within a short time window.
Losing ground
Down the most this week. Worth a look if you rely on any of them.
| Plugin | Rank | Moved | Installs |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eazy Plugin Manager | #14,632 | ▼ 3,816 | 152 |
| Porn Videos Embed | #6,603 | ▼ 2,237 | 1.2K |
| Clean WP Dashboard | #15,068 | ▼ 1,971 | 140 |
| HD Quiz – Limit Attempts | #13,189 | ▼ 1,784 | 193 |
| RSS make antenna | #14,236 | ▼ 1,674 | 163 |
