Eventward climbed 40,766 places, the sharpest rise of the week. 861 plugins were published, and 71,357 had a snapshot at both ends of 4 Oct – 11 Oct 2026.
The week in numbers
75,936
Plugins tracked
407.3M
Combined installs
861
New this week
-0%
Install growth
Growth is measured across the 71,357 plugins holding 396.5M 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eventward | #12,099 | ▲ 40,766 | 234 |
| Scrumptious – Recipe Cards | #11,267 | ▲ 35,043 | 275 |
| Quizably – Quiz Maker, Personality Quiz & Survey Builder | #13,283 | ▲ 28,578 | 186 |
| FotoGrids – Photo & Video Galleries, Lightboxes, Sliders & More | #13,436 | ▲ 9,470 | 182 |
| Inspire Commerce Gateway for WooCommerce | #4,332 | ▲ 6,064 | 2.9K |
| Autosaver for Contact Form 7 | #14,479 | ▲ 5,454 | 148 |
| Jetpack Stats | #12,873 | ▲ 5,400 | 198 |
| Feedliyo – Social Feed & Product Feed Lite | #13,057 | ▲ 3,189 | 150 |
Breakout growth
Established plugins — 1,000 installs or more a week ago — adding users fastest.
| Plugin | Installs | Growth | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCP Adapter | 47.8K | +2288.5% | #817 |
| AI Marketing Expert — AI Email Marketing, AI Content Generator, SEO Analyzer, AI Workflow Automation, Social Media & Ai Chatbot | 2.1K | +64.4% | #4,971 |
| Media Library Tools – AI-Powered Rename, Clean & CSV Import/Export | 1.9K | +58.7% | #5,209 |
| ZIP AI – AI Website Builder & AI Agent | 2K | +55.7% | #5,145 |
| MaxGalleria | 2K | +53.8% | #5,078 |
| La Poste Pro Expéditions WooCommerce | 2K | +53.8% | #5,100 |
Rising stars
Small plugins — under 5,000 installs — climbing hardest. This is where next year’s big names are hiding.
| Plugin | Installs | Moved | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eventward | 234 | ▲ 40,766 | #12,099 |
| Scrumptious – Recipe Cards | 275 | ▲ 35,043 | #11,267 |
| BragDeal Spam Guard | 30 | ▲ 29,988 | #23,483 |
| Safer Remote Site Backup & Manager | 30 | ▲ 29,587 | #22,061 |
| StoreBolt – Advanced Search for WooCommerce | 20 | ▲ 28,899 | #24,692 |
Just published
New to WordPress.org this week.
- WP All Import – User Import Add-On — Easily import users from any XML, CSV or Excel file into WordPress with the User Import Add-On for WP All Import.
- MrSeokar Inline Related Products for WooCommerce
- GLS Click&Ship (Denmark) — Easily create and manage GLS shipping labels directly from your WooCommerce store using GLS Click & Ship.
- JHMG AI Editor for Divi 5 — Edit and build Divi 5 pages in plain English with the AI assistant you already use. Every change is checked before it is…
- DigiNex Spam Guard — Invisible, CAPTCHA-free spam protection for Elementor Pro, Contact Form 7, WPForms, comments, WooCommerce reviews and re…
- PinBoostr Internal Linking Assistant — Scan your posts and pages, get smart internal link suggestions from your own content, and insert them with one click. A…
Losing ground
Down the most this week. Worth a look if you rely on any of them.
| Plugin | Rank | Moved | Installs |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blog Blocks – Gutenberg Blocks for Content Writers | #13,978 | ▼ 3,167 | 166 |
| Admin User Message | #16,037 | ▼ 2,904 | 106 |
| YML for Snippets | #15,189 | ▼ 1,373 | 131 |
| Socialwire Article Generator | #15,328 | ▼ 1,283 | 126 |
| WP Strip Image Metadata | #9,002 | ▼ 1,168 | 504 |
