The week in WordPress plugins — 30 Aug – 6 Sep 2026

Error Sniffing Pug – Tells you what broke climbed 30,237 places, the sharpest rise of the week. 694 plugins were published, and 66,211 had a snapshot at both ends of 30 Aug – 6 Sep 2026.

The week in numbers

Growth is measured across the 66,211 plugins holding 369.5M 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
Error Sniffing Pug – Tells you what broke	#14,442	▲ 30,237	154
iConvert Optimizer	#14,135	▲ 27,675	162
Login Security with Telegram Alerts	#15,608	▲ 15,724	122
xSpeed Cache: AI-Powered Performance Hub with MCP, Caching & CDN	#5,236	▲ 11,374	1.9K
LocalForm – Form Builder for Contact Forms, Surveys & Event Registration	#12,114	▲ 4,008	238
Milo Subscriptions – Subscriptions for WooCommerce and Recurring Payments	#13,451	▲ 3,261	180
Icon Indexa	#12,527	▲ 3,261	212
PressPrimer Certificate – Certificate Designer & Course Certification for Your LMS	#13,757	▲ 3,216	172

Breakout growth

Established plugins — 1,000 installs or more a week ago — adding users fastest.

Plugin	Installs	Growth	Rank
User Shortcodes	1.5K	+50%	#6,983
WSP MCP – WordPress MCP – Connect Claude, codex, antigravity or any other AI Agent	1.3K	+22.5%	#6,352
ThinkRank AI SEO – AI SEO Plugin for WordPress: Schema, XML Sitemaps, Meta Tags, Search Console & Local SEO	13K	+21.5%	#1,963
WPVibe – WordPress MCP Server. Connect Claude, ChatGPT & Any AI Agent via MCP	18.1K	+20.8%	#1,572
Server-Side Cache AutoPurge	14.5K	+20.8%	#1,850
Check for Broken Links – Broken Link Checker & SEO Suite	1.3K	+20.1%	#6,420

Rising stars

Small plugins — under 5,000 installs — climbing hardest. This is where next year’s big names are hiding.

Plugin	Installs	Moved	Rank
Error Sniffing Pug – Tells you what broke	154	▲ 30,237	#14,442
Code and core – Smart Image Ratio	65	▲ 29,087	#19,245
iConvert Optimizer	162	▲ 27,675	#14,135
Owl Security	15	▲ 24,841	#25,023
AssistCamp – Documentation/Knowledgebase Plugin	20	▲ 24,163	#25,688

Just published

New to WordPress.org this week.

• ThemeREX eCommerce Extensions for Elementor — Elementor widgets and page templates for WooCommerce: shop, product, cart, checkout, my account, plus AJAX catalog filte…
• WingMind AI — A Gemini-powered AI agent inside WordPress admin. Ask questions, edit content, and make live site updates without leavin…
• EzBizi — Show your company's phone, address, licence and hours from EzBizi as shortcodes, so one change updates every page of you…
• AISA — AI SEO & GEO Assistant: Alt Text for Accessibility (WCAG), Meta, Schema, Brand Voice — with Your Own AI API Keys — Advanced AI SEO & GEO — standalone or with Yoast, Rank Math, SEOPress, AIOSEO. One-Click & bulk (Premium), AI Vision alt…
• RoutineKit — Reusable Configuration Checklists — Reusable site configuration checklists for WordPress agencies — stop re-doing the same setup tasks on every client site.
• Autoiview Connector — Connects your site to Autoiview, an SEO service that publishes AI-written posts, updates meta tags, and manages robots.t…

Losing ground

Down the most this week. Worth a look if you rely on any of them.

Plugin	Rank	Moved	Installs
Dirigible SEO	#21,298	▼ 5,143	40
AxiaChat AI – Free AI Chatbot (Answers Customers Automatically)	#8,447	▼ 2,890	632
Accessible Carousel & Slider – WCAG AA Compliant Slideshow	#8,178	▼ 1,805	686
All Sources Images – Free Images from Pixabay, Unsplash, Openverse, Pexels & Giphy	#9,526	▼ 1,675	461
ShortLinks Pro – Affiliate Links, Link Shortening, Click Tracking & Marketing	#15,154	▼ 1,596	134

Rating swings

Ratings that moved by 0.2 stars or more.

Plugin	Rating	Change
Spectra Blocks – AI Website Builder for the Block Editor	4.3★	-0.3