WordPress stats and code tutorials about how to harvest stats and data.
Plugins with Most Active Installs on WordPress.org Plugin RepositoryIf you want to know which plugins on the WordPress.org plugin repository have the highest number of active installs, you can see those here. The stats on this page are always current because they will be refreshed every seven days. The plugins are ranked by the highest number of active installs. Please note that if … Read more →
This is a quick example of how to query the WordPress.org API using JavaScript. For this example, I will query the WordPress Plugins Directory, but you may modify this to query any of the WordPress.org APIs. This example uses JavaScript and jQuery. (You may instead prefer to do this using PHP.) I will also show … Read more →
The 100 Oldest Plugins in The WordPress Plugins DirectoryThis is a list of the 100 oldest plugins in the WordPress Plugins Directory. These plugins were added to the repository in 2004 and 2005. Some of these plugins still have thousands of active users. Of these 100 oldest plugins, the one with the most active installs is flickrRSS by Dave Kellam. It has over … Read more →
How To Get WordPress Plugins Directory Stats From WordPress.org APIDo you want to collect stats from all the more than forty thousand plugins from the WordPress.org Plugins Directory? I don’t mean to collect plugin stats for just one plugin. I mean to collect stats about all of the plugins in the directory. There are so many different ways that you could filter or sort … Read more →
Do you want to know which plugins on the WordPress.org Directory have been abandoned for the longest time? Here are more than 3,000 abandoned WordPress Directory plugins based on their last updated date. These are all the plugins that have not been updated in over 8 years. That is, their last updated date is before … Read more →
This is how you can use the WordPress.org API to get information and stats about themes in the WordPress.org theme directory. I used this code to get the top ten themes with the most active installs. First, I’ll show you the generic PHP code to make a request to the WordPress.org API to get theme … Read more →
If you wanted to know which themes on the WordPress.org theme directory have the highest number of active installs, you can see those here. The stats on this page are always current because they will be refreshed every seven days. These are themes with the highest number of active installs, not necessarily the most “Popular” … Read more →