As of November 14, 2026, wordpress.org lists 79,148 plugins, and across wordpress.org, CodeCanyon, WooCommerce.com, Codester and the company sites we could read there are 89,308 different plugins from about 44,036 companies and authors, after counting each plugin and seller once. This is the plugins companion to our WordPress themes count, built the same way. Below: where the plugins are, how we counted, what we could not count, and the data.
The short answer
There are 79,148 plugins in the wordpress.org directory, and 6,922 of them have 1,000 or more active installs; 460 have 100,000 or more and 67 have 1 million or more. 30,391 report no active installs (wordpress.org shows "fewer than 10" as zero). CodeCanyon has 5,128 WordPress plugins from 882 authors, and WooCommerce.com lists 2,216 products from 383 vendors.
The company-site part is approximate and incomplete. We read plugin names from 196 company sites. 1,392 more sites mention plugins heavily but their catalogs cannot be counted by a plain page read, so they are not counted at all. See what we could not count.
Where the plugins are
| Source | Listings | Found only here |
|---|---|---|
| wordpress.org | 79,148 | 78,578 |
| CodeCanyon (WordPress category) | 5,128 | 4,854 |
| WooCommerce.com marketplace | 2,216 | 2,083 |
| Codester (WordPress plugins) | 755 | 755 |
| Company sites, plugin names read (approximate) | 2,819 | 2,384 |
90,066 listings reduce to 89,308 different plugins once the same plugin is merged across sources. By update date (wordpress.org, CodeCanyon and the company sites that show one): 45,785 updated since 2024-11-14, 38,282 older, 5,241 with no readable date (WooCommerce.com, Codester). This page does not drop plugins for age, so the headline is a count of everything listed, not of everything maintained.
The same plugin on more than one list
758 listings were merged into another because the same seller sells the same plugin on two places (a free plugin on wordpress.org and its paid version on CodeCanyon is one plugin). 577 sellers appear on two or more sources. Plugins found on more than one source:
| Found on | Plugins |
|---|---|
| own site + wordpress.org | 288 |
| CodeCanyon + wordpress.org | 191 |
| WooCommerce.com + wordpress.org | 76 |
| CodeCanyon + own site | 55 |
| WooCommerce.com + own site | 19 |
| CodeCanyon + own site + wordpress.org | 12 |
| CodeCanyon + WooCommerce.com | 10 |
| CodeCanyon + WooCommerce.com + wordpress.org | 2 |
| WooCommerce.com + own site + wordpress.org | 1 |
What a Google sweep for plugin companies found
We ran 40 Google searches for plugin companies and shops ("WordPress plugin companies", "premium WordPress plugins", WooCommerce plugin stores, and plugin types such as booking, security, forms, membership). They returned 3,598 results. We set aside 2,510 whose titles are roundups, "best of" lists, reviews or how-to pages, and 450 on marketplaces, hosts and media sites, and read the other 429 sites. 372 are plugin-related sites (they name plugins or WordPress in the title or mention plugins 15 or more times), and 270 of those were not already on a marketplace or wordpress.org list. Their individual catalogs were mostly not countable by a plain page read, so they add sellers, not plugin counts. Google returns about 100 results per search, so this is not a full top 500 for one phrase; it is the union of many. Data: Google result sites.
What we could not count
- 1,392 company sites mention plugins 15 or more times but have no catalog a plain read can count. Nothing is estimated for them.
- 653 sites could not be read (errors, 403s), 11 showed a bot wall and 18 disallow all robots. We did not get around any of these.
- Codester: its item pages block repeated plain reads, so the 755 listings are counted from category pages and almost none have a named seller.
- WooCommerce.com: 2,216 product pages from its sitemap; 73 titles say "theme" and some are services. We counted them all and did not separate extensions from other products.
- Sellers with no own site found: marketplace sellers for whom Google gave no site of their own are counted at their marketplace only.
- Envato Elements, Freemius, Gumroad and other small marketplaces, and paid plugins sold only on private sites we did not find.
How we counted
wordpress.org: the free plugins API (api.wordpress.org/plugins/info/1.2/?action=query_plugins), 250 per page, every page read: 79,148 collected against 79,148 reported. CodeCanyon: the Envato search API for the WordPress category, walked by subcategory and the whole category in three stable orders: 5,128 of 5,128. WooCommerce.com: product pages from its public sitemap (its robots file disallows the extensions API, so it was not used). Codester: the WordPress plugins category pages.
Companies: for each CodeCanyon author and WooCommerce.com vendor we searched Google for the name plus "WordPress plugins" and took the author's own site when the domain names the author or a top-3 result does. For wordpress.org authors with 5 or more plugins or 10,000 or more active installs we used the site they list on their plugin pages. In all, 3,430 sites were read with plain requests (honest user agent, robots.txt honored, one request at a time per site, no logins, no bot-wall bypass).
Plugins on company sites: counted only where the site exposes a product list (WooCommerce store API, Easy Digital Downloads): distinct names, free and paid versions as one, bundles, services, themes and licences left out; for WooCommerce stores, products in a category named plugins, add-ons or extensions. 196 sites gave names. A fresh-context spot check found this part approximate (see below), so it is a separate, labeled bucket.
Same seller, same plugin: a seller is one wordpress.org author, CodeCanyon author, WooCommerce.com vendor or site, joined by shared site or identical name. Two listings from different sources are one plugin when the same seller gave them the same name after cutting the title at " - " or ":" and dropping words like WordPress, plugin, Pro, Lite, Free (757 merges by rule T1, 1 by T3). Same name under different sellers is never merged. A looser prefix rule (T4) was tried and removed after a check showed it joined an add-on to its base plugin. Merges: merge log.
Check: a fresh-context reviewer re-checked 20 merges (18 held, 1 false, 1 could not be told) and 10 company-site counts (5 held). The misses were stores that name plugins without the word "plugin", add-ons counted as one, a reseller of third-party plugins, and one overcount; the store rule was changed once (count products in plugin/add-on/extension categories; exclude GPL resale sites) and the false-merge rule removed. The new rule was not re-sampled.
The data
- Plugins (17,453 rows: every marketplace and company-site plugin, plus wordpress.org plugins with 1,000 or more active installs; the other wordpress.org plugins are in the live API)
- Sellers (6,732 rows: sellers with 3 or more plugins or on 2 or more sources)
- Merge log (758 rows)
- Google result sites (429 rows)
Counting WordPress themes instead? See How many WordPress themes are there?
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