The week's largest handover: WP Crontrol<\/a>, at 300,000+ installs, moved from John Blackbourn to Syed Balkhi on 08 Oct 2026. The record carries the full transfer evidence.<\/p>\n Other hands changed too: a 2-plugin portfolio led by PublishPress Taxonomies \u2013 Tag, Category, and Taxonomy Manager \u2013 Autotagger Automatically Add Terms<\/a> (40,000+) moved from Steve Burge to PublishPress on 08 Oct 2026; Bosa Starter Sites<\/a> (30,000+) moved from keonthemes to Bosa Themes on 03 Oct 2026; a 20-plugin portfolio led by Cron Logger<\/a> (1,000+) moved from EdwardBock to Palasthotel GmbH on 05 Oct 2026. In all, 32 plugins changed hands across 12 handovers this week.<\/p>\n 103 plugins left the directory this week. The largest by last recorded installs: Custom Login Page Customizer \u2013 Login Designer<\/a> (30,000+), Post Snippets \u2013 Custom WordPress Code Snippets Customizer<\/a> (20,000+), Timber<\/a> (20,000+). wordpress.org removes a closed plugin's page the same day it closes; each last good record is preserved in the registry.<\/p>\n 20 plugins returned to the directory, led by Subscribe to Comments<\/a> (10,000+) and WP Associate Post R2<\/a> (2,000+).<\/p>\n