The week's largest handover: WooCommerce Gateway Affirm, at 6,000+ installs, moved from WooCommerce to Affirm on 02 Oct 2026. The record carries the full transfer evidence.
Other hands changed too: Send Users Email – Email Subscribers, Email Marketing Newsletter (5,000+) moved from PARETO Digital to WebFactory on 02 Oct 2026; Peter's Post Notes – Admin Notes for Posts and Pages (3,000+) moved from Peter to Giannis Kipouros on 01 Oct 2026; a 4-plugin portfolio led by Peter's Post Notes – Admin Notes for Posts and Pages (3,000+) moved from Giannis Kipouros to The WP Garden on 02 Oct 2026. In all, 19 plugins changed hands across 12 handovers this week.
128 plugins left the directory this week. The largest by last recorded installs: elegro Crypto Payment (20,000+), Horizontal scrolling announcements (8,000+), WebP Conversion (4,000+). wordpress.org removes a closed plugin's page the same day it closes; each last good record is preserved in the registry.
32 plugins returned to the directory, led by Hide Shipping Method For WooCommerce (10,000+) and XServer Migrator (10,000+).
After long silence: AddQuicktag, at 100,000+ installs shipped a release on 01 Oct 2026, at least 540 days after its previous one. 68 more did the same; the dormancy record has each.
The week in numbers
| Ownership transfers | 19 |
|---|---|
| Closures | 128 |
| Returns | 32 |
| Dormancy breaks | 69 |
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.