{"id":44,"date":"2026-11-06T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pluginspedia.com\/blog\/weekly-brief-2026-11-06\/"},"modified":"2026-11-06T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T13:00:00","slug":"weekly-brief-2026-11-06","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pluginspedia.com\/blog\/weekly-brief-2026-11-06\/","title":{"rendered":"Cinza Slider changes hands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"post-meta\">Observed 31 Oct 2026 to 06 Nov 2026<\/p>\n<p>The week's largest handover: <a href=\"https:\/\/pluginspedia.com\/plugin\/cinza-slider\">Cinza Slider<\/a>, at 100+ installs, moved from Cinza Web Design to Razorfrog Web Design on 31 Oct 2026, together with <a href=\"https:\/\/pluginspedia.com\/plugin\/cinza-grid\">Cinza Grid<\/a> (50+). Both records carry the full transfer evidence.<\/p>\n<p>In all, 6 plugins changed hands across 5 handovers this week.<\/p>\n<p>19 plugins left the directory this week. The largest by last recorded installs: <a href=\"https:\/\/pluginspedia.com\/plugin\/gravity-forms-pdf-extended\">Gravity PDF<\/a> (20,000+), <a href=\"https:\/\/pluginspedia.com\/plugin\/review-schema\">SchemaEngine AI \u2013 AI Schema Markup, Reviews &amp; Rich Snippets for SEO<\/a> (10,000+), <a href=\"https:\/\/pluginspedia.com\/plugin\/sumup-payment-gateway-for-woocommerce\">SumUp Payment Gateway For WooCommerce<\/a> (10,000+). 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>4 plugins returned to the directory, led by <a href=\"https:\/\/pluginspedia.com\/plugin\/document-gallery\">Document Gallery<\/a> (8,000+).<\/p>\n<p>After long silence: <a href=\"https:\/\/pluginspedia.com\/plugin\/wp-datepicker\">WP Datepicker<\/a>, at 6,000+ installs shipped a release on 30 Oct 2026, at least 540 days after its previous one. 15 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>6<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Closures<\/th>\n<td>19<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Returns<\/th>\n<td>4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Dormancy breaks<\/th>\n<td>16<\/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>Cinza Slider changes hands. 6 transfers, 19 closures, 4 returns and 16 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: Cinza Slider changes hands, and 19 plugins leave the directory","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44","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\/44","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=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pluginspedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"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=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pluginspedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pluginspedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}