Plugin Trends: April 8, 2021

In a shocking turn of events, duplicating posts is no longer the most important thing in a WP admin’s list of problems. We identify another obvious regression to the mean. Next week’s regression to the mean will be “The Events Calendar”. A plugin that had an ungodly good run of things this week. Another notable this week is […]

Plugin Trends: April 1, 2021

It’s days like this where you shake your head at the WordPress core. The simple act of duplicating a page on a site is not available out of the box. Instead we are forced to go and find a plugin to do what is a most common task: duplicating a page. On the declining side of things, we […]

Plugin Trends: March 25, 2021

There must be some shady competition out there scraping content from everyone’s WordPress blogs this week because we see a major jump up in popularity around Copy Protection plugins. And for every rising tide, the water must come from somewhere. This week shows us that performance plugins that minify and defer Javascript seem somewhat less important…

Plugin Trends: March 18, 2021

Nice to see so many WordPress Admins seeking out Cloud Backup solutions for their sites this week. Taking your ops seriously is a sign of planning for eventual outcomes. In a predictable regression to the mean, we see the falling of DDoS and Cloudflare plugins returning to their middle of the pack positions.

Plugin Trends: March 11, 2021

Interesting indicators this week around nginx… What happened? Looks like WordPress 5.7 borked SG Optimizer and they had to rush out a fix. Fun Times. Instagram plugins took a big hit this week, for no good reason. Likely a regression to the mean. I’m curious about Spam. Is this really a problem? Who is having trouble on their […]