{"id":22,"date":"2026-08-21T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pluginspedia.com\/blog\/weekly-brief-2026-08-21\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T02:19:51","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T02:19:51","slug":"weekly-brief-2026-08-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pluginspedia.com\/blog\/weekly-brief-2026-08-21\/","title":{"rendered":"Adminify \u2013 White Label, Admin Menu Editor, Login Customizer changes hands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"post-meta\">Observed 15 Aug 2026 to 21 Aug 2026<\/p>\n<p>The week's largest handover: <a href=\"https:\/\/pluginspedia.com\/plugin\/adminify\">Adminify \u2013 White Label, Admin Menu Editor, Login Customizer<\/a>, at 6,000+ installs, moved from Liton Arefin to Pixar Labs on 19 Aug 2026. The record carries the full transfer evidence.<\/p>\n<p>Other hands changed too: a 3-plugin portfolio led by <a href=\"https:\/\/pluginspedia.com\/plugin\/shipping-simulator-for-woocommerce\">Shipping Simulator for WooCommerce<\/a> (5,000+) moved from Luiz Bills to linknacional on 15 Aug 2026; a 2-plugin portfolio led by <a href=\"https:\/\/pluginspedia.com\/plugin\/noindex-seo\">noindex SEO<\/a> (3,000+) moved from Javier Casares to ROBOTSTXT.es on 19 Aug 2026; <a href=\"https:\/\/pluginspedia.com\/plugin\/media-tracker\">Media Tracker \u2013 Track Unused, Duplicate &amp; Used Media<\/a> (1,000+) moved from TheBitCraft to Rejuan Ahamed on 18 Aug 2026. In all, 19 plugins changed hands across 13 handovers this week.<\/p>\n<p>41 plugins left the directory this week. The largest by last recorded installs: <a href=\"https:\/\/pluginspedia.com\/plugin\/wordfence-login-security\">Wordfence Login Security<\/a> (60,000+), <a href=\"https:\/\/pluginspedia.com\/plugin\/send-pdf-for-contact-form-7\">Send PDF for Contact Form 7<\/a> (9,000+), <a href=\"https:\/\/pluginspedia.com\/plugin\/rt-mega-menu\">RT Mega Menu \u2013 Mega Menu Builder for Elementor &amp; Gutenberg<\/a> (8,000+). wordpress.org removes a closed plugin's page the same day it closes; each last good record is preserved in the registry.<\/p>\n<h2>The week in numbers<\/h2>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th>Ownership transfers<\/th>\n<td>19<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Closures<\/th>\n<td>41<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Returns<\/th>\n<td>0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Dormancy breaks<\/th>\n<td>0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h2>The record, in full<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/pluginspedia.com\/transfers\">The rolling transfer record<\/a>: every handover of the trailing 90 days, with evidence.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/pluginspedia.com\/dormant\">The dormancy record<\/a>: plugins past 540 days without a release, most widely installed first.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/pluginspedia.com\/closed\/2026\">Closed in 2026<\/a>: every plugin removed this year, last good record preserved.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This brief is assembled from the registry&rsquo;s event records for the seven days shown. Every claim links to the record that carries its evidence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>19 transfers, 41 closures, 0 returns and 0 dormancy breaks across the plugin directory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pp_email_subject":"This week: Adminify \u2013 White Label, Admin Menu Editor, Login Customizer changes hands, and 41 plugins leave the directory","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-weekly-brief"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pluginspedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pluginspedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pluginspedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pluginspedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pluginspedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pluginspedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38,"href":"https:\/\/pluginspedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions\/38"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pluginspedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pluginspedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pluginspedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pluginspedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}