The week's largest handover: Nested Pages, at 90,000+ installs, moved from Kyle Phillips to Hook & Filter on 22 Aug 2026, together with Favorites (10,000+). Both records carry the full transfer evidence.
Other hands changed too: IP Location Block (10,000+) moved from Darko G. to Ideologix on 25 Aug 2026; WPVulnerability (10,000+) moved from Javier Casares to ROBOTSTXT.es on 24 Aug 2026; a 4-plugin portfolio led by Jooosi Fon – Use Custom Fonts, Google Fonts or Adobe Fonts (4,000+) moved from Sua to suasgn on 25 Aug 2026. In all, 14 plugins changed hands across 9 handovers this week.
100 plugins left the directory this week. The largest by last recorded installs: SOGO Add Script to Individual Pages Header Footer (20,000+), Media Cloud for Bunny CDN, Amazon S3, Cloudflare R2, Google Cloud Storage, DigitalOcean and more (7,000+), WP BackItUp Community Edition (6,000+). wordpress.org removes a closed plugin's page the same day it closes; each last good record is preserved in the registry.
24 plugins returned to the directory, led by Tagembed: Social Media Feeds and Customer Reviews Widget (9,000+) and Advanced Views – Display Framework for Gutenberg & Elementor (3,000+).
After long silence: Really Simple CAPTCHA, at 300,000+ installs shipped a release on 23 Aug 2026, at least 540 days after its previous one. 286 more did the same; the dormancy record has each.
The week in numbers
| Ownership transfers | 14 |
|---|---|
| Closures | 100 |
| Returns | 24 |
| Dormancy breaks | 287 |
The record, in full
- The rolling transfer record: every handover of the trailing 90 days, with evidence.
- The dormancy record: plugins past 540 days without a release, most widely installed first.
- Closed in 2026: every plugin removed this year, last good record preserved.
This brief is assembled from the registry’s event records for the seven days shown. Every claim links to the record that carries its evidence.