{"id":23,"date":"2026-08-28T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pluginspedia.com\/blog\/weekly-brief-2026-08-28\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T02:19:51","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T02:19:51","slug":"weekly-brief-2026-08-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pluginspedia.com\/blog\/weekly-brief-2026-08-28\/","title":{"rendered":"Nested Pages changes hands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"post-meta\">Observed 22 Aug 2026 to 28 Aug 2026<\/p>\n<p>The week's largest handover: <a href=\"https:\/\/pluginspedia.com\/plugin\/wp-nested-pages\">Nested Pages<\/a>, at 90,000+ installs, moved from Kyle Phillips to Hook &amp; Filter on 22 Aug 2026, together with <a href=\"https:\/\/pluginspedia.com\/plugin\/favorites\">Favorites<\/a> (10,000+). Both records carry the full transfer evidence.<\/p>\n<p>Other hands changed too: <a href=\"https:\/\/pluginspedia.com\/plugin\/ip-location-block\">IP Location Block<\/a> (10,000+) moved from Darko G. to Ideologix on 25 Aug 2026; <a href=\"https:\/\/pluginspedia.com\/plugin\/wpvulnerability\">WPVulnerability<\/a> (10,000+) moved from Javier Casares to ROBOTSTXT.es on 24 Aug 2026; a 4-plugin portfolio led by <a href=\"https:\/\/pluginspedia.com\/plugin\/yabe-webfont\">Jooosi Fon \u2013 Use Custom Fonts, Google Fonts or Adobe Fonts<\/a> (4,000+) moved from Sua to suasgn on 25 Aug 2026. In all, 14 plugins changed hands across 9 handovers this week.<\/p>\n<p>100 plugins left the directory this week. The largest by last recorded installs: <a href=\"https:\/\/pluginspedia.com\/plugin\/oh-add-script-header-footer\">SOGO Add Script to Individual Pages Header Footer<\/a> (20,000+), <a href=\"https:\/\/pluginspedia.com\/plugin\/ilab-media-tools\">Media Cloud for Bunny CDN, Amazon S3, Cloudflare R2, Google Cloud Storage, DigitalOcean and more<\/a> (7,000+), <a href=\"https:\/\/pluginspedia.com\/plugin\/wp-backitup\">WP BackItUp Community Edition<\/a> (6,000+). wordpress.org removes a closed plugin's page the same day it closes; each last good record is preserved in the registry.<\/p>\n<p>24 plugins returned to the directory, led by <a href=\"https:\/\/pluginspedia.com\/plugin\/tagembed-widget\">Tagembed: Social Media Feeds and Customer Reviews Widget<\/a> (9,000+) and <a href=\"https:\/\/pluginspedia.com\/plugin\/acf-views\">Advanced Views \u2013 Display Framework for Gutenberg &amp; Elementor<\/a> (3,000+).<\/p>\n<p>After long silence: <a href=\"https:\/\/pluginspedia.com\/plugin\/really-simple-captcha\">Really Simple CAPTCHA<\/a>, 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.<\/p>\n<h2>The week in numbers<\/h2>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th>Ownership transfers<\/th>\n<td>14<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Closures<\/th>\n<td>100<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Returns<\/th>\n<td>24<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Dormancy breaks<\/th>\n<td>287<\/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>Nested Pages changes hands. 14 transfers, 100 closures, 24 returns and 287 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: Nested Pages changes hands, and 100 plugins leave the directory","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23","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\/23","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=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pluginspedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37,"href":"https:\/\/pluginspedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions\/37"}],"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=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pluginspedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pluginspedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}