Every WordPress plugin with more than 10,000 active installs whose last release was over two years ago. Not a sample — this is the complete list, from all 71,091 plugins in the directory.
An abandoned plugin does not announce itself. It keeps working, it keeps its star rating, and its listing page carries no warning — a listing that still converts has no reason to add one. The dashboard tells you when an update is available. It never tells you that no update has come in three years.
That matters most for the plugins nobody thinks about: the login limiter, the backup runner, the form handler. Installed once, then trusted indefinitely. The longest entry on this list was last touched 158 months ago and is still running on 30,000 sites.
This measures maintenance, not quality. A small, finished plugin that genuinely needed no changes in three years appears here and may still be the right choice. The grade is the start of a judgement, not the end of one.
What it does mean is that if a vulnerability is found in one of these tomorrow, there is no evidence anyone is there to fix it. That is the risk being described — not that the software is bad, but that it is unattended.
| Silent for | Installs | Plugin | Rating | Support resolved |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25mo | 400,000 | Template Kit – Import envato · listing | 3.4★ | — |
| 41mo | 300,000 | Limit Login Attempts Automattic · listing | 4.6★ | — |
| 25mo | 300,000 | Health Check & Troubleshooting WordPress.org · listing | 3.6★ | 0% |
| 38mo | 200,000 | Layout Grid Block Automattic · listing | 4.7★ | — |
| 63mo | 100,000 | AddQuicktag Frank Bueltge · listing | 4.7★ | — |
| 61mo | 100,000 | Easy Google Fonts Sunny Johal · listing | 4.6★ | — |
| 40mo | 100,000 | WP Downgrade | Specific Core Version Reisetiger · listing | 4.8★ | — |
| 29mo | 100,000 | WooSidebars WooThemes · listing | 3.9★ | 0% |
| 24mo | 100,000 | Search & Replace WP Media · listing | 4.3★ | 0% |
| 41mo | 80,000 | Fixed Widget and Sticky Elements for WordPress monetizemore · listing | 4.7★ | — |
| 36mo | 80,000 | Disable REST API Dave McHale · listing | 4.8★ | — |
| 36mo | 80,000 | Heartbeat Control WP Media · listing | 4.2★ | — |
| 28mo | 80,000 | BackUpWordPress Tom Willmot · listing | 4.7★ | 0% |
| 63mo | 70,000 | Title Remover WPGurus · listing | 3.9★ | — |
| 53mo | 70,000 | PHP Code Widget Samuel Wood (Otto) · listing | 4.7★ | — |
| 50mo | 70,000 | Facebook Chat Plugin – Live Chat Plugin for WordPress Facebook · listing | 3.5★ | — |
| 38mo | 70,000 | Async JavaScript David Clough · listing | 4.7★ | — |
| 34mo | 70,000 | Hotjar Hotjar · listing | 2.9★ | 0% |
| 29mo | 70,000 | WP Show Posts Tom · listing | 4.7★ | 0% |
| 69mo | 60,000 | Add From Server Dion Hulse · listing | 4.6★ | — |
| 52mo | 60,000 | Easy Theme and Plugin Upgrades Chris Jean · listing | 4.7★ | — |
| 47mo | 60,000 | Column Shortcodes Tobias Schutter · listing | 4.8★ | — |
| 37mo | 60,000 | All In One Favicon Garrett Grimm · listing | 4.5★ | — |
| 30mo | 60,000 | Brazilian Market on WooCommerce Claudio Sanches · listing | 4.8★ | — |
| 26mo | 60,000 | Enhanced Media Library webbistro · listing | 4.3★ | 0% |
| 102mo | 50,000 | Contact Form 7 add confirm Yuichiro ABE · listing | — | 0% |
| 87mo | 50,000 | OptionTree Derek Herman · listing | 4.7★ | — |
| 81mo | 50,000 | Easy SSL Plugin for SAKURA Rental Server sakurainternet · listing | — | — |
| 30mo | 50,000 | HTML Editor Syntax Highlighter Peter Mukhortov · listing | 4.4★ | — |
| 101mo | 40,000 | Revision Control Dion Hulse · listing | 4.4★ | — |
| 95mo | 40,000 | WP Edit Josh · listing | 4★ | — |
| 90mo | 40,000 | Disable Google Fonts Milan Dinić · listing | 4.4★ | — |
| 72mo | 40,000 | Portfolio Post Type Devin Price · listing | 4.7★ | — |
| 37mo | 40,000 | Increase Maximum Upload File Size WP Media · listing | 3.9★ | — |
| 34mo | 40,000 | WP Extra File Types davide.airaghi · listing | 3.4★ | — |
| 30mo | 40,000 | underConstruction Garrett Grimm · listing | 4.5★ | — |
| 24mo | 40,000 | Login Logo Mark Jaquith · listing | 4.9★ | — |
| 158mo | 30,000 | My-Plugins matejn · listing | — | — |
| 99mo | 30,000 | Self-Hosted Google Fonts asadkn · listing | 4.8★ | — |
| 87mo | 30,000 | Hide Title Dojo Digital · listing | 3.7★ | — |
| 79mo | 30,000 | WP Updates Notifier Scott Cariss · listing | 4.2★ | — |
| 77mo | 30,000 | Lightweight Social Icons Tom · listing | 4.7★ | — |
| 41mo | 30,000 | Export Media Library Andrej Pavlovic · listing | 4.9★ | — |
| 40mo | 30,000 | Display PHP Version David Gwyer · listing | 4.9★ | — |
| 39mo | 30,000 | Scripts n Styles WraithKenny · listing | 4.4★ | — |
| 31mo | 30,000 | TS Webfonts for さくらのレンタルサーバ sakurainternet · listing | — | — |
| 28mo | 30,000 | reCAPTCHA for MW WP Form Masahiro NAKASHIMA · listing | — | — |
| 27mo | 30,000 | Social Media Widget Blink Web Effects · listing | 3.9★ | — |
| 25mo | 30,000 | Enhanced Text Widget cl272 · listing | 4.9★ | — |
| 122mo | 20,000 | External Thumbnail mrtaiw · listing | — | — |
| 105mo | 20,000 | Exclude Pages Simon Wheatley · listing | 4.9★ | — |
| 105mo | 20,000 | Link Manager Andrew Nacin · listing | 4.5★ | — |
| 105mo | 20,000 | SEO Friendly Images Vladimir Prelovac · listing | 3★ | — |
| 101mo | 20,000 | Disable Feeds WPDeveloper · listing | 4.7★ | — |
| 93mo | 20,000 | Multiple Post Thumbnails Chris Scott · listing | 4.7★ | — |
| 82mo | 20,000 | Add Category to Pages a.ankit · listing | 4.7★ | — |
| 81mo | 20,000 | elegro Crypto Payment nikotech · listing | 5★ | — |
| 72mo | 20,000 | Re-Add Text Justify Button Salvatore Cordiano · listing | — | — |
| 68mo | 20,000 | Contact Form 7 – Phone mask field Ruslan Heorhiiev · listing | 4.4★ | — |
| 67mo | 20,000 | WP Maximum Execution Time Exceeded Johnnie · listing | 4.8★ | — |
| 63mo | 20,000 | Advanced Automatic Updates Gary Pendergast · listing | 4.7★ | — |
| 54mo | 20,000 | PuSHPress Joseph Scott · listing | 3.6★ | — |
| 51mo | 20,000 | Visual Form Builder Matthew Muro · listing | 4.1★ | — |
| 45mo | 20,000 | Auto Upload Images Ali Irani · listing | 4.3★ | — |
| 36mo | 20,000 | JetSticky For Elementor jetmonsters · listing | 3.7★ | — |
| 34mo | 20,000 | JivoChat Live Chat – WP live chat plugin for WordPress JivoChat · listing | 4.9★ | — |
| 32mo | 20,000 | Mega Addons For WPBakery Page Builder nasir179125 · listing | 4.2★ | 0% |
| 30mo | 20,000 | Hide Admin Notices PontetLabs · listing | 4.6★ | — |
| 29mo | 20,000 | Site Offline Or Coming Soon Or Maintenance Mode chandrashekharsahu · listing | 4.8★ | — |
| 29mo | 20,000 | Material Design Icons for Page Builders Photon WP · listing | 5★ | — |
| 28mo | 20,000 | Spider Blocker Niteo · listing | 4★ | — |
| 27mo | 20,000 | Gutenberg Block Editor Toolkit – EditorsKit Munir Kamal · listing | 4.6★ | — |
| 25mo | 20,000 | Change WordPress Login Logo Boopathi Rajan · listing | 4.6★ | — |
| 25mo | 20,000 | Seed Fonts Seed Webs · listing | 4.6★ | — |
| 25mo | 20,000 | WP Test Email Boopathi Rajan · listing | 4.7★ | 0% |
| 25mo | 20,000 | Meks Simple Flickr Widget Meks · listing | — | — |
| 24mo | 20,000 | Any Mobile Theme Switcher Dnesscarkey · listing | 4.8★ | — |
| 118mo | 10,000 | SEO Ultimate Jeffrey L. Smith · listing | 3.8★ | — |
| 109mo | 10,000 | WP Missed Schedule Posts NewVariable · listing | 3★ | — |
| 109mo | 10,000 | Dashboard Notepad Stephanie Leary · listing | 4.6★ | — |
| 106mo | 10,000 | Options Framework Devin Price · listing | 4.8★ | — |
| 105mo | 10,000 | Audit Trail John Godley · listing | — | — |
| 105mo | 10,000 | Search Everything Sovrn · listing | 4.1★ | — |
| 105mo | 10,000 | wp-jalali mani_monaj · listing | 4★ | — |
| 105mo | 10,000 | Breadcrumb Trail Justin Tadlock · listing | 4.3★ | — |
| 105mo | 10,000 | Lockdown WP Admin Sean Fisher · listing | 3.9★ | — |
| 105mo | 10,000 | Uber Login Logo uberweb · listing | 4.9★ | — |
| 105mo | 10,000 | Parent Category Toggler Ben Lobaugh (blobaugh) · listing | 4.8★ | — |
| 105mo | 10,000 | Яндекс Метрика Konstantin Kovshenin · listing | 4.5★ | — |
| 105mo | 10,000 | Use Google Libraries Jason Penney · listing | 4.4★ | — |
| 105mo | 10,000 | WordPress REST API (Version 2) Ryan McCue · listing | 4.2★ | — |
| 105mo | 10,000 | Gravity Forms No CAPTCHA reCAPTCHA folkhack · listing | 4.8★ | — |
| 105mo | 10,000 | Disable Real MIME Check Sergey Biryukov · listing | 4.9★ | — |
| 105mo | 10,000 | Custom Post Template Simon Wheatley · listing | 4.8★ | — |
| 105mo | 10,000 | Scroll Back To Top joesexton00 · listing | 4.2★ | — |
| 105mo | 10,000 | Contact Form 7 – Success Page Redirects Ryan Nevius · listing | 4.2★ | — |
| 104mo | 10,000 | Easy Twitter Feed Widget Plugin DesignOrbital · listing | 3.7★ | — |
| 102mo | 10,000 | Simple Map Takayuki Miyauchi · listing | 4.7★ | — |
| 101mo | 10,000 | Granular Controls For Elementor NoreWP · listing | 4.2★ | — |
| 100mo | 10,000 | WooCommerce Grid / List toggle James Koster · listing | 3.8★ | — |
| 99mo | 10,000 | Hide Featured Image shahpranaf · listing | 3.6★ | — |
| 99mo | 10,000 | Bootstrap for Contact Form 7 Felix Arntz · listing | 4.8★ | — |
| 97mo | 10,000 | TinyMCE Clear Float Philipp Bammes · listing | 5★ | — |
| 95mo | 10,000 | Remove Yoast SEO Comments Mitch · listing | 3.8★ | — |
| 93mo | 10,000 | Lazy Load Automattic · listing | 4★ | — |
| 91mo | 10,000 | Shortcake (Shortcode UI) Daniel Bachhuber · listing | 4.1★ | — |
| 90mo | 10,000 | Lightweight Grid Columns Tom · listing | 4.9★ | — |
| 88mo | 10,000 | Posts in Page ivycat · listing | 4.4★ | — |
| 87mo | 10,000 | Cookies for Comments Donncha O Caoimh (a11n) · listing | 4.9★ | — |
| 87mo | 10,000 | Video User Manuals markethax · listing | — | — |
| 86mo | 10,000 | G Meta Keywords Sinan Yorulmaz · listing | 5★ | — |
| 83mo | 10,000 | Show/Hide Content at Set Time Dave Clements · listing | 4.9★ | — |
| 76mo | 10,000 | WP No Base Permalink Sergio · listing | 4.1★ | — |
| 75mo | 10,000 | Popup Trigger URL for Elementor Pro sukiwp · listing | 4.6★ | — |
| 74mo | 10,000 | OT Flatsome Vertical Menu thinhbg59 · listing | 4.7★ | — |
| 73mo | 10,000 | Claudio Sanches – PagSeguro for WooCommerce Claudio Sanches · listing | 4.9★ | — |
| 72mo | 10,000 | Zendesk Chat zendesk_official · listing | 4★ | — |
| 72mo | 10,000 | WooCommerce Colors Claudio Sanches · listing | 3.2★ | — |
| 71mo | 10,000 | jQuery Pin It Button for Images mrsztuczkens · listing | 4.6★ | — |
| 67mo | 10,000 | Robots.txt Editor Processby · listing | 4.5★ | — |
| 67mo | 10,000 | WP Author, Date and Meta Remover Johnnie · listing | 3.2★ | — |
| 67mo | 10,000 | Social Icons ThemeGrill · listing | 4.5★ | — |
| 65mo | 10,000 | Dash Notifier LiteSpeed Technologies · listing | — | — |
| 65mo | 10,000 | Multiple Domain Javik · listing | 4.8★ | — |
| 62mo | 10,000 | Search by SKU for Woocommerce mattsgarage · listing | 4.6★ | — |
| 61mo | 10,000 | Easy Custom Sidebars Sunny Johal · listing | 4.1★ | — |
| 60mo | 10,000 | Button visually impaired veks · listing | 4.9★ | 0% |
| 59mo | 10,000 | Public Post Preview Configurator bjoerne · listing | — | — |
| 58mo | 10,000 | Oceanwp sticky header קידום ובניית אתרים · listing | 4.1★ | — |
| 55mo | 10,000 | Accordion Blocks philbuchanan · listing | 5★ | — |
| 55mo | 10,000 | WP Tab Widget MyThemeShop · listing | 4.3★ | — |
| 54mo | 10,000 | WP Notification Bars MyThemeShop · listing | 3.7★ | — |
| 52mo | 10,000 | Bulk Page Creator DaganLev · listing | 4.8★ | — |
| 50mo | 10,000 | Adjust Admin Categories Masahiro NAKASHIMA · listing | — | — |
| 50mo | 10,000 | Tag Pages BjornW · listing | 4.9★ | — |
| 49mo | 10,000 | Disable "BIG Image" Threshold Jonathan Desrosiers · listing | 4.2★ | — |
| 48mo | 10,000 | Related Posts Flatsome Minh Tiến · listing | — | 0% |
| 43mo | 10,000 | 10WebSocial 10Web · listing | 4.5★ | — |
| 42mo | 10,000 | Blank Slate Aaron Reimann · listing | 5★ | — |
| 42mo | 10,000 | TC Custom JavaScript Tiny Code · listing | 5★ | — |
| 41mo | 10,000 | Simple Taxonomy Ordering Evan Herman · listing | 4.9★ | — |
| 41mo | 10,000 | Advanced TinyMCE Configuration Andrew Ozz · listing | 4.8★ | — |
| 41mo | 10,000 | Show-Hide / Collapse-Expand buntegiraffe · listing | 4.6★ | — |
| 41mo | 10,000 | Wufoo Shortcode wronganswersonly · listing | 4.4★ | 0% |
| 41mo | 10,000 | Simple Full Screen Background Image AMP-MODE · listing | 4.4★ | — |
| 38mo | 10,000 | WP Content Copy Protection tychesoftwares · listing | 3.5★ | — |
| 37mo | 10,000 | Central Color Palette Tessa (they/them), AuRise Creative · listing | 4.9★ | — |
| 37mo | 10,000 | Italy Cookie Choices (for EU Cookie Law & Cookie Notice) overclokk · listing | 4.5★ | — |
| 36mo | 10,000 | Meks Easy Photo Feed Widget Meks · listing | 3.8★ | — |
| 35mo | 10,000 | Password Strength Settings for WooCommerce Danny Santoro · listing | 4.5★ | — |
| 34mo | 10,000 | Typing Effect 93digital · listing | 4.3★ | — |
| 34mo | 10,000 | Disable Theme and Plugin Auto-Update Emails KZeni · listing | 5★ | — |
| 33mo | 10,000 | Disable Right Click For WP Aftab Ali Muni · listing | 4.3★ | 0% |
| 33mo | 10,000 | ACF Theme Code for Advanced Custom Fields Aaron Rutley · listing | 5★ | — |
| 31mo | 10,000 | Delete Pending Comments Sudar Muthu · listing | 4.7★ | — |
| 31mo | 10,000 | Create And Assign Categories For Pages sandeepsinghhdp · listing | 4.7★ | — |
| 31mo | 10,000 | PDF viewer for Elementor & Gutenberg Kaz Kadalashvili · listing | — | — |
| 26mo | 10,000 | Insights from Google PageSpeed Matt Keys · listing | 4.8★ | 100% |
| 26mo | 10,000 | Login by Auth0 Auth0 · listing | 3.1★ | — |
| 26mo | 10,000 | WP Font Awesome Zayed Baloch · listing | 4.9★ | — |
| 26mo | 10,000 | Cyclone Demo Importer Cyclone Themes · listing | — | — |
| 26mo | 10,000 | Genesis Columns Advanced Nick Diego · listing | 4.8★ | — |
| 25mo | 10,000 | Meks Smart Social Widget Meks · listing | 4.6★ | — |
| 25mo | 10,000 | Meks Smart Author Widget Meks · listing | 4.5★ | 0% |
| 25mo | 10,000 | Meks Easy Ads Widget Meks · listing | 4.1★ | — |
| 25mo | 10,000 | Seo Optimized Images webriti · listing | 4★ | — |
| 25mo | 10,000 | Meks Easy Social Share Meks · listing | 4.5★ | — |
| 25mo | 10,000 | Bulk Post Update Date Atiq Samtia · listing | 4.7★ | — |
| 25mo | 10,000 | Blog Designer solwininfotech · listing | 4★ | — |
| 25mo | 10,000 | Adobe Fonts (formerly Typekit) for WordPress Tectalic · listing | 4.9★ | — |
| 25mo | 10,000 | Custom CSS and JavaScript WP Zone · listing | 4.7★ | — |
| 25mo | 10,000 | Shortcodes for Divi WP Zone · listing | 5★ | — |
| 25mo | 10,000 | Meks ThemeForest Smart Widget Meks · listing | — | — |
| 25mo | 10,000 | Ultimate Posts Widget cl272 · listing | 4.5★ | — |
| 24mo | 10,000 | Visual Term Description Editor Shea Bunge · listing | 5★ | — |
| 24mo | 10,000 | WP Hardening (discontinued) WebProtect.ai · listing | 4★ | — |
marketwatch reads the plugin slugs a WordPress page already declares in its own asset URLs and checks each against the directory. Free, no signup. It only sees plugins that load assets on the page it is given, so a clean result is not a clean bill of health.
For a list of sites, or for CI:
npx github:odedmoshe/marketscan audit plugins.txt
api.wordpress.org/plugins/info/1.2, enumerated in full — 71,092 plugins, 100% of what the directory reports. Two passes over two orderings are needed; the collector is research/wp-census.mjs in the repository.300,000, never 312,481. Every figure here is therefore a floor, and the summed total especially so.