{"id":24,"date":"2026-09-04T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pluginspedia.com\/blog\/weekly-brief-2026-09-04\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T02:19:51","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T02:19:51","slug":"weekly-brief-2026-09-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pluginspedia.com\/blog\/weekly-brief-2026-09-04\/","title":{"rendered":"Login as User: See the Site as Any User changes hands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"post-meta\">Observed 29 Aug 2026 to 04 Sep 2026<\/p>\n<p>The week's largest handover: <a href=\"https:\/\/pluginspedia.com\/plugin\/login-as-user\">Login as User: See the Site as Any User<\/a>, at 30,000+ installs, moved from Yiannis Christodoulou to Web357 on 03 Sep 2026, together with <a href=\"https:\/\/pluginspedia.com\/plugin\/count-cwp\">Count Characters, Words and Paragraphs while typing<\/a> (300+) and 3 more. All 5 records carry the full transfer evidence.<\/p>\n<p>Other hands changed too: <a href=\"https:\/\/pluginspedia.com\/plugin\/easy-mcp-ai\">Easy MCP AI \u2013 Connect Claude to WordPress: MCP Server for ChatGPT &amp; AI Agents<\/a> (20,000+) moved from Easy MCP AI to Themeisle on 01 Sep 2026; <a href=\"https:\/\/pluginspedia.com\/plugin\/woocommerce-gateway-eway\">Eway Payments for Woo<\/a> (3,000+) moved from WooCommerce to ewaypayments on 29 Aug 2026; a 3-plugin portfolio led by <a href=\"https:\/\/pluginspedia.com\/plugin\/display-html-sitemap\">Display HTML Sitemap<\/a> (1,000+) moved from Dipak Kumar Pusti to Dipak Kumar Pusti on 31 Aug 2026. In all, 20 plugins changed hands across 11 handovers this week.<\/p>\n<p>29 plugins left the directory this week. The largest by last recorded installs: <a href=\"https:\/\/pluginspedia.com\/plugin\/vc-templates-import-export\">Export &amp; Import WPBakery Page Builder<\/a> (9,000+), <a href=\"https:\/\/pluginspedia.com\/plugin\/custom-menu-wizard\">Custom Menu Wizard Widget<\/a> (2,000+). 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>13 plugins returned to the directory, led by <a href=\"https:\/\/pluginspedia.com\/plugin\/bdthemes-element-pack-lite\">Element Pack Addons for Elementor \u2013 MCP &amp; AI-Ready Elementor Widgets, Elementor Templates, Elementor Addons<\/a> (100,000+) and <a href=\"https:\/\/pluginspedia.com\/plugin\/bdthemes-prime-slider-lite\">Prime Slider \u2013 Hero Slider, Carousel, WooCommerce &amp; Post Slider Elementor Addons<\/a> (100,000+).<\/p>\n<p>After long silence: <a href=\"https:\/\/pluginspedia.com\/plugin\/better-font-awesome\">Better Font Awesome<\/a>, at 60,000+ installs shipped a release on 01 Sep 2026, at least 540 days after its previous one. 64 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>20<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Closures<\/th>\n<td>29<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Returns<\/th>\n<td>13<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Dormancy breaks<\/th>\n<td>65<\/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>Login as User: See the Site as Any User changes hands. 20 transfers, 29 closures, 13 returns and 65 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: Login as User: See the Site as Any User changes hands, and 29 plugins leave the directory","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24","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\/24","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=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pluginspedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36,"href":"https:\/\/pluginspedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions\/36"}],"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=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pluginspedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pluginspedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}