Browse plugins and the leaderboard

WPInsight’s public browsing tools use its WordPress.org directory mirror. You can explore plugins without signing in; tracking a plugin in your workspace requires an account.

Browse every install size

Open the plugin directory to search by name or slug. Choose a category, then filter by active installs, ratings, review count and update date. Sort by installs, name, update date or listing date.

Search stays inside the selected category. Filters and page numbers are in the URL, so you can bookmark or share the view. On mobile, open Browse categories or Search & filters above the results.

Category rules may overlap. A plugin can appear in more than one category, so category totals must not be added together. Unclassified means no category rule currently matches; these plugins still appear in All plugins.

Discover recent listings

Discover groups plugins by their stored WordPress.org listing date. Choose a listing period and compare seven-day downloads, seven-day rank movement or active-install floors.

The view shows up to 50 leading eligible listings, in pages of 20. Coverage explains exclusions, including missing observations and insufficient history. A listing date is not necessarily the plugin’s first release anywhere. Unknown activity is not zero.

Compare leaderboard views

The leaderboard has five tabs:

• Plugins: search and filter the ranking, with 24-hour and seven-day movement, the next milestone and active installs. Results use pages of 20.
• Emerging, Growing and Established: positive seven-day climbers within existing install-size bands. Emerging begins at 500 installs; Growing begins at 5,000; Established begins at 100,000. Each tier shows up to ten climbers, five per page.
• Author accounts: compare up to 50 matching WordPress.org participants by summed install floors or cumulative downloads from active mirrored plugins, with plugin counts and linked portfolios. Search by username or the account’s available public name.

Participants include observed listed authors, explicit Developer and Contributor roles on public WordPress.org profiles, and public plugin API contributor credits. Each account-and-plugin pair is counted once, even when several roles or sources support it. A shared plugin receives full credit for each observed participant, so account totals overlap and must not be added together as unique ecosystem totals. API contributor credit does not establish Developer status.

Author ranking searches have a fixed work limit. If a search cannot establish its top results within that limit, you will be asked to use a more specific name or username rather than being shown incomplete results.

An account may represent a person or team. These relationships do not verify company ownership or employment. Names come from the participant’s own cached public profile or their own listed-author record, with the username as a fallback, not from another participant on a shared plugin.

Active installs are reported bucket floors, not exact site counts. Participant install totals are not unique websites. Downloads include updates and repeat downloads; rank movement measures places gained, not installation growth.

Find a participant and inspect their portfolio

Use Find plugin authors and contributors to search known accounts by username or available public name, including contributor-only accounts. Search compares decoded display names. To keep requests bounded, each search checks at most 1,000 candidates. If that cannot establish the requested page and whether another page exists, the directory asks you to narrow the search instead of showing a misleading empty or final page. Try a more specific username or name.

Open a participant to see all their observed mirrored plugins, with role filters and pagination. Rankings and ranking previews include active plugins only. Portfolios can also show inactive records, clearly marked and linked to WordPress.org. Their install totals exclude inactive records, but their cumulative download totals include them, so portfolio downloads can differ from ranking downloads.

Coverage is incomplete. Public profile evidence is refreshed on visits, not by a complete global participation crawl; an initial visit can show cached evidence until a later request sees the refresh. Plugin and relationship observation dates describe the stored evidence. A response time does not mean every relationship was checked at that time.

Open a profile or start tracking

Select a plugin name to open its public profile. Profiles show the available mirror observations; missing values remain unknown. Public browsing does not require installing anything on your WordPress site.

To monitor a plugin in your own workspace, follow Track your first plugin. For reading your tracked data through an AI client, see Connect your AI agent.

Rising download momentum

Rising this week now requires 1,000+ reported installs, 15 consecutive daily observations and increases of both 100 downloads and 25% over the preceding week. The baseline needs 100 downloads and the latest observation must be within 48 hours. The table exposes both weekly totals and dates. Downloads include updates and repeat downloads, not new users. Missing history and counter resets are excluded. Small plugins remain in Latest and All plugins.