Looks like our WordPress community has discovered the power of Localized SEO; Map related plugins were on the rise this week. Also it seems that the great big looming Brexit caused a significant decline in people’s interest in GDPR Plugins. I wish you all a Happy Holiday and we’ll be back next week to close out the year […]

While things have got much better around the WordPress ecosystem we still see so many people downloading security plugins. A quiet week in the trends otherwise. Nothing notable to comment on this week.

For the second week in a row we see SSL related plugins dominating the trends. As a consequence of last week’s SSL cohorts we see that group moving toward their next challenge: email and comment spam. Anyone want to lay bets on a big rebound in Backup plugins as last week’s cohort moves to complete their website builds […]

You can really feel the trend this week: Noobs coming to WordPress discovering what we all already know — HTTP is dead, only use HTTPS. We forget that rookies don’t understand the difference and why it matters. And then they start seeing Mixed Content errors on their pages and it’s off to WP.org to find a plugin to […]

Stuck between Halloween and Christmas we find Thanksgiving Day! To most of us is it’s the biggest and best holiday of the lot. Yet, somehow, this week we find WordPress Plugin Trends are centered around Popup Builders. It stands to reason that this past week everyone decided to put some effort into their Black Friday marketing. Defacing their […]