Postalion – Newsletter, Email Marketing & Automation climbed 37,999 places, the sharpest rise of the week. 625 plugins were published, and 71,286 had a snapshot at both ends of 18 Oct – 25 Oct 2026.
The week in numbers
77,560
Plugins tracked
404.9M
Combined installs
625
New this week
-0.4%
Install growth
Growth is measured across the 71,286 plugins holding 382.9M 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Postalion – Newsletter, Email Marketing & Automation | #16,082 | ▲ 37,999 | 110 |
| Airworthy – PHP Compatibility & Upgrade Checker | #13,662 | ▲ 16,941 | 177 |
| Resolai – AI Chatbot for Customer Support | #14,039 | ▲ 11,809 | 166 |
| Business Hours & Holiday Schedule Manager | #17,129 | ▲ 10,753 | 85 |
| CompatNav – PHP Upgrade Checker | #14,291 | ▲ 9,268 | 159 |
| UWH Site Migrator – WP Migration, Backup & Restore | #14,825 | ▲ 8,352 | 145 |
| Kanbanz | #6,322 | ▲ 6,019 | 1.2K |
| DevDome Activity Log: Track WordPress User Activity | #14,956 | ▲ 5,644 | 130 |
Breakout growth
Established plugins — 1,000 installs or more a week ago — adding users fastest.
| Plugin | Installs | Growth | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Inspire Commerce Gateway for WooCommerce | 11.8K | +292.2% | #2,036 |
| WP All Import – User Import Add-On | 3.7K | +272.9% | #3,757 |
| WP All Export – User Export Add-On | 5.7K | +85.7% | #3,039 |
| Patchstack – WordPress & Plugins Security | 119.8K | +69.9% | #429 |
| InstaMigrate | 1.7K | +68.4% | #5,645 |
| Cowboy MCP – Free MCP Server with Undo for Claude & ChatGPT | 1.7K | +63.9% | #5,633 |
Rising stars
Small plugins — under 5,000 installs — climbing hardest. This is where next year’s big names are hiding.
| Plugin | Installs | Moved | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Postalion – Newsletter, Email Marketing & Automation | 110 | ▲ 37,999 | #16,082 |
| Noah Shop Builder for WooCommerce | 15 | ▲ 35,868 | #19,606 |
| FeastBell – Feast & Event Calendar | 20 | ▲ 29,945 | #25,236 |
| AI Support Assistant | 20 | ▲ 29,620 | #25,599 |
| gRDV Messages | 35 | ▲ 29,467 | #23,163 |
Just published
New to WordPress.org this week.
- Notices Panel
- FeedCentral Connector
- Classic Honeypot for CF7 — A lean honeypot anti-spam field for Contact Form 7. A fork of the classic Honeypot for Contact Form 7 by Nocean, with no…
- Sarkar IT Fake Order Protector — Phone validation, local blocklists, duplicate order checks and optional checkout recovery for WooCommerce stores in Bang…
- Bit Connect – Community, Discussion Forum, Feedback & Roadmap — Build a community, forum, feedback portal and public roadmap with posts, profiles, votes, discussions, notifications and…
- Discounly Unused Image Cleaner — Finds unused Media Library images in minutes, even on very large sites. Check them yourself 10 at a time, then move them…
Losing ground
Down the most this week. Worth a look if you rely on any of them.
| Plugin | Rank | Moved | Installs |
|---|---|---|---|
| Passwords Evolved | #8,879 | ▼ 3,177 | 529 |
| Extended Table of Contents (with nextpage support) | #16,241 | ▼ 3,038 | 106 |
| Simple Custom Code – Custom CSS, JS, and HTML, Visual CSS Customizer | #18,339 | ▼ 2,500 | 70 |
| Flux Media Optimizer – Image & Video Optimization by Flux Plugins | #21,294 | ▼ 1,430 | 42 |
| CI BMI Calculator | #15,877 | ▼ 1,263 | 116 |
