The State of Themes and Plugins on WordPress.org in 2020

In this article I want to analyze the themes and plugins that are available in the official WordPress.org repository. I’m looking at the most liked and disliked themes and plugins, and at plugins that are larger than WordPress itself.

Some of you might recall that I did something similar in 2019 (An Analysis of 18,087 WordPress.org Plugins), but that was only for a subset of plugins. This post includes data about all plugins and themes too.

Besides looking at the obvious data points like active installations, ratings and support forum threads, I also wanted to bring attention to something that often goes unnoticed, and that is the disk size of themes and plugins. I’ve written on this topic back in 2019.

So I’ve included 3 more data points: disk size and the number of files and folders.

I decided to exclude all themes and plugins that haven’t been updated in the last 5 years. It reduced the total number of themes from 7,787 to 5,635 and the number of plugins from 58,000 to 38,896.

Quick Stats

• Number of themes: 5,635 (13.23 GB)
• Number of theme authors: 1,510.
• Number of active theme installations: ~12.31 million.
• Number of plugins: 38,896 (35.68 GB).
• Number of plugin authors: 19,965.
• Number of active plugin installations: ~246 million.

This post was written based on the state of the repository on September 3rd, 2020.

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Table of Contents

1. Themes Data
   1. Top 20 themes by total disk size
   2. Top 20 themes by number of files
   3. Top 20 themes by number of folders
   4. All themes (65) with more than 20,000 active installations
   5. Top 20 themes by number of ratings
   6. The worst rated themes (with at least 10 ratings)
   7. Theme ratings breakdown
   8. Top 20 theme authors by number of themes
   9. Top file extensions in themes
2. Plugins Data
   1. Top 20 plugins by total disk size
   2. Top 20 plugins by number of files
   3. Top 20 plugins by number of folders
   4. All plugins (97) with more than 500,000 active installations
   5. Top 20 plugins by number of ratings
   6. The Top 100 worst rated plugins (with at least 25 ratings)
   7. Plugin ratings breakdown
   8. Top 20 plugins by number of support threads
   9. Top 20 plugin authors by number of plugins
   10. Top 100 most used words in plugin names
   11. Top file extensions in plugins
3. Conclusions

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1. Themes Data

The total size of themes (5,635) is 13.23 GB split across 516,659 files in 92,524 folders.

The total number of active theme installations is ~12.31 million.

To put things in perspective, keep in mind that version 5.5 of WordPress is 45.5 MB and contains 1,980 Files in 249 Folders.

 

1.1 Top 20 Themes by Total Disk Size

• There are 9 themes that are larger than 15.0 MB.
• There are 38 themes that are larger than 10.0 MB.
• There are 454 themes that are larger than 5.0 MB.

#	Theme	Size	Files	Folders	Installs
1	Crio	21.24 MB	959	162	700
2	Simplenotes	18.81 MB	48	4	500
3	Customizr	17.06 MB	520	108	70,000
4	Bizberg	16.86 MB	427	73	2,000
5	PHLOX	16.34 MB	634	58	40,000
6	Grid Magazine	16.31 MB	85	8	200
7	devdmbootstrap4	16.01 MB	1,733	27	300
8	Radon	15.15 MB	1,712	28	200
9	Genui	15.06 MB	948	124	300
10	Herschel	14.6 MB	1,683	18	200
11	BizFolio	14.38 MB	1,445	23	100
12	Bootstrap Basic4	13.64 MB	1,679	24	800
13	Qoob	13.09 MB	360	175	100
14	OceanWP	13 MB	572	97	600,000
15	Hueman	12.89 MB	290	66	50,000
16	Topcat Lite	12.69 MB	709	56	100
17	Cactus	12.52 MB	383	86	2,000
18	GW Chariot	12.33 MB	1,417	17	100
19	Virtue	12.23 MB	733	118	40,000
20	Awada	11.87 MB	735	119	800

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1.2 Top 20 Themes by number of Files

• There are 20 themes that have 800 files or more.
• There are 32 themes that have 600 files or more.
• There are 121 themes that have 400 files or more.
• There are 403 themes that have 200 files or more.

#	Theme	Size	Files	Folders	Installs
1	devdmbootstrap4	16.01 MB	1,733	27	300
2	Radon	15.15 MB	1,712	28	200
3	Herschel	14.6 MB	1,683	18	200
4	Bootstrap Basic4	13.64 MB	1,679	24	800
5	SwipeWP	6.24 MB	1,656	44	100
6	InterServer Portfolio	11.07 MB	1,631	16	200
7	Interserver Blog	7.83 MB	1,611	20	200
8	BizFolio	14.38 MB	1,445	23	100
9	activetab	6.59 MB	1,417	24	100
10	GW Chariot	12.33 MB	1,417	17	100
11	Interserver Platinum	8.87 MB	1,156	26	400
12	Interserver Mommy Blog	7.19 MB	1,110	16	200
13	BA Hotel light	8.2 MB	1,051	29	400
14	Crio	21.24 MB	959	162	700
15	Blocksy	4.88 MB	957	155	6,000
16	Genui	15.06 MB	948	124	300
17	WP Simple	8 MB	856	143	1,000
18	Venture Lite	8.89 MB	846	145	500
19	Simple Business WP	7.98 MB	845	141	500
20	Taproot	2.99 MB	820	340	300

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1.3 Top 20 Themes by number of Folders

• There are 37 themes that have 100 folders or more.
• There are 93 themes that have 75 folders or more.
• There are 317 themes that have 50 folders or more.

#	Theme	Size	Files	Folders	Installs
1	Taproot	2.99 MB	820	340	300
2	Gridd	3.99 MB	705	228	100
3	The Journal	5.35 MB	564	204	400
4	Qoob	13.09 MB	360	175	100
5	Supernova	4.99 MB	662	169	900
6	Crio	21.24 MB	959	162	700
7	Blocksy	4.88 MB	957	155	6,000
8	Influence Blog	4.61 MB	212	146	700
9	Venture Lite	8.89 MB	846	145	500
10	WP Simple	8 MB	856	143	1,000
11	Simple Business WP	7.98 MB	845	141	500
12	WeCodeArt	3.15 MB	311	141	30
13	Monstroid2 Lite	4.93 MB	367	140	400
14	Ascend	10.52 MB	618	124	4,000
15	Genui	15.06 MB	948	124	300
16	Awada	11.87 MB	735	119	800
17	Lesse Lite	5.52 MB	572	118	100
18	Virtue	12.23 MB	733	118	40,000
19	TheNotes Lite	6.54 MB	479	117	100
20	BootFrame Core	7.11 MB	590	116	600

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1.4 All Themes with more than 20,000 Active Installations

I did not want to have a very large table, so I decided to limit this list to themes that surpassed the 20,000 active installations mark.

• There are only 9 non-default (Twenty *) themes active on more than 100,000 websites.
• There are 120 non-default themes active on more than 10,000 websites.
• There are 231 non-default themes active on more than 5,000 websites.
• There are 670 non-default themes active on more than 2,000 websites.

ThemeIsle is the only company to have more than one theme with over 100,000 active installations.

#	Theme	Size	Files	Folders	Installs
1	Astra	4.5 MB	418	113	1,000,000
2	Twenty Seventeen	1.2 MB	59	11	1,000,000
3	Twenty Twenty	1.72 MB	62	10	1,000,000
4	OceanWP	13 MB	572	97	600,000
5	Twenty Nineteen	1.09 MB	92	25	600,000
6	GeneratePress	1.98 MB	101	11	300,000
7	Hello Elementor	443.17 KB	22	4	300,000
8	Twenty Sixteen	889.92 KB	47	5	300,000
9	Storefront	5.57 MB	172	34	200,000
10	Twenty Fifteen	1 MB	45	4	200,000
11	ColorMag	4.56 MB	295	75	100,000
12	Hestia	8.25 MB	319	90	100,000
13	Neve	5.01 MB	417	101	100,000
14	Sydney	3.73 MB	136	25	100,000
15	Twenty Eleven	1.2 MB	83	7	100,000
16	Twenty Fourteen	1.36 MB	63	7	100,000
17	Twenty Ten	971.04 KB	48	3	100,000
18	Twenty Twelve	510.82 KB	40	4	100,000
19	OnePress	4.46 MB	154	13	90,000
20	Zerif Lite	5.44 MB	209	34	90,000
21	Twenty Thirteen	634.43 KB	63	7	80,000
22	Customizr	17.06 MB	520	108	70,000
23	Vantage	3.75 MB	260	49	70,000
24	Shapely	7.08 MB	256	61	60,000
25	Spacious	3.6 MB	154	30	60,000
26	Total	4.91 MB	116	16	60,000
27	Ashe	5.58 MB	95	25	50,000
28	Hueman	12.89 MB	290	66	50,000
29	Zakra	2.85 MB	197	55	50,000
30	Colibri WP	9.88 MB	238	41	40,000
31	Customify	6.07 MB	355	64	40,000
32	Go	2.64 MB	151	21	40,000
33	Lightning	10.4 MB	304	72	40,000
34	Mesmerize	7.02 MB	426	60	40,000
35	PHLOX	16.34 MB	634	58	40,000
36	Responsive	11.53 MB	358	58	40,000
37	Sparkling	5.35 MB	193	27	40,000
38	Virtue	12.23 MB	733	118	40,000
39	Consulting	3.75 MB	196	71	30,000
40	Flash	4.59 MB	375	62	30,000
41	MH Magazine lite	3.08 MB	106	8	30,000
42	Rife Free	5.03 MB	241	35	30,000
43	Shop Isle	5.62 MB	296	73	30,000
44	Accelerate	1.78 MB	86	16	20,000
45	Airi	2.86 MB	143	52	20,000
46	Ascension	1.03 MB	10	2	20,000
47	Bard	5.62 MB	79	19	20,000
48	Futurio	1.84 MB	53	16	20,000
49	Graphene	9.68 MB	428	34	20,000
50	Hemingway	667.02 KB	21	6	20,000
51	Highlight	3.39 MB	58	13	20,000
52	Iconic One	359.87 KB	47	6	20,000
53	Kale	3.95 MB	94	15	20,000
54	NewsMag	3.3 MB	236	73	20,000
55	Nirvana	8.8 MB	309	23	20,000
56	Nisarg	5.65 MB	65	11	20,000
57	Oblique	3.33 MB	138	29	20,000
58	One Page Express	7.81 MB	481	80	20,000
59	Orfeo	967.63 KB	83	16	20,000
60	Page Builder Framework	3.45 MB	446	85	20,000
61	Poseidon	1.84 MB	116	17	20,000
62	Primer	1.8 MB	143	18	20,000
63	Tempera	5.75 MB	271	23	20,000
64	Uptown Style	851.27 KB	9	2	20,000
65	Velux	1.12 MB	20	5	20,000

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1.5 Top 20 Themes by number of Ratings

• There are only 4 themes that have over 1,000 ratings.
• There are 41 themes that have 100 ratings or more.
• There are 98 themes that have 50 ratings or more.
• There are 528 themes that have 10 ratings or more.
• There are 2,373 themes (42.11%) that have never been rated. These themes are active on 877,140+ websites (7.12% of total).

#	Theme	Installs	Ratings
1	Astra	1,000,000	4,636
2	OceanWP	600,000	4,032
3	ColorMag	100,000	1,085
4	GeneratePress	300,000	1,077
5	Customizr	70,000	976
6	Spacious	60,000	664
7	Hueman	50,000	661
8	PHLOX	40,000	475
9	Neve	100,000	450
10	Responsive	40,000	404
11	Hestia	100,000	392
12	Zerif Lite	90,000	331
13	Zakra	50,000	326
14	Sydney	100,000	282
15	evolve	10,000	261
16	Mesmerize	40,000	255
17	Custom Community	2,000	236
18	Point	10,000	227
19	Virtue	40,000	223
20	Blocksy	6,000	220

It is interesting to note that the 12 themes developed by the hosting provider GoDaddy and included in their hosting packages, are active on 184,500+ websites and have only 38 ratings in total. Take this information as you will.

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1.6 The worst rated themes (with at least 10 ratings)

#	Theme	Installs	Ratings	1-2 Star Ratings	Average score
1	BlackBird	1,000	17	10	54
2	Sensible WP	6,000	11	5	60
3	Consulting	30,000	15	7	62
4	WP Simple	1,000	16	8	62
5	Brilliance	1,000	13	5	64
6	CyberChimps	600	15	6	66
7	Shopper	7,000	12	5	68
8	Flat Responsive	2,000	13	5	70
9	Alexandria	2,000	46	12	74
10	discover	1,000	17	5	74
11	Twenty Nineteen	600,000	58	18	74
12	Athena	10,000	33	9	76

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1.7 Theme Ratings Breakdown

• There are only 39,742 theme ratings in total.
• There are 1,091 themes (19.3%) with a single rating.
• 93% of theme ratings are positive.
• Astra and OceanWP make up 21.81% of all theme ratings on WordPress.org.

All Theme Ratings

Rating	Ratings	Percentage
	1,505	3.79%
	530	1.33%
	604	1.52%
	1,660	4.18%
	35,441	89.18%
Total	39,742

 

Themes with only 1 Rating

Rating	Ratings	Percentage
	91	8.34%
	39	3.57%
	38	3.48%
	76	6.97%
	847	77.64%
Total	1,091

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1.8 Top 20 Theme Authors by number of Themes

Total number of theme developers (accounts): 1,510

• There are 26 developers with 30 themes or more.
• There are 55 developers with 20 themes or more.
• There are 127 developers with 10 themes or more.
• There are 255 developers with 5 themes or more.
• There are 861 developers with only 1 theme.

Most theme authors with more than 20 themes (51 out of 55) have a total number of active installations under 100,000 websites.

The Installs P/T column shows the average number of active installations per theme.

#	Author	Themes	Total Installs	Installs P/T	Ratings
1	catchthemes	78	119,100	1,527	770
2	vowelweb	73	39,830	546	30
3	sonalsinha21	73	44,680	612	199
4	automattic	72	351,030	4,875	384
5	themeeverest	68	65,200	959	45
6	thinkupthemes	66	66,070	1,001	150
7	inkhive	64	32,700	511	225
8	gracethemes	59	31,300	531	41
9	themepalace	56	26,460	473	45
10	wpkoithemes	54	16,330	302	13
11	raratheme	53	64,500	1,217	403
12	luzuk	45	19,960	444	25
13	fly2sky	45	19,170	426	67
14	tskk	41	5,800	141	63
15	tishonator	39	5,310	136	12
16	themeinwp	36	23,500	653	42
17	wenthemes	36	41,300	1,147	115
18	themes4wp	35	35,890	1,025	64
19	mysterythemes	34	30,620	901	223
20	themehunk	33	15,120	458	78

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1.9 Top File Extensions in Themes

I decided to include this data too. If you found this useful, please let me know in the comments section 🙂

Image files make up almost half of the total disk size of themes.
PNG (3.25GB – 24.55%) + SVG (2.05GB – 15.47%) + JPG (1.19GB – 9.01%) = 6.49GB – 49.03%.

#	Extension	Files	Files %	Files Size	Size %
1	php	211,429	40.92%	1.04 GB	7.85%
2	js	65,710	12.72%	1.17 GB	8.82%
3	css	50,160	9.71%	1.3 GB	9.82%
4	png	48,053	9.30%	3.25 GB	24.55%
5	svg	30,245	5.85%	2.05 GB	15.47%
6	scss	19,333	3.74%	60.14 MB	0.44%
7	jpg	10,801	2.09%	1.19 GB	9.01%
8	txt	10,221	1.98%	68.86 MB	0.51%
9	woff	8,018	1.55%	430.9 MB	3.18%
10	ttf	7,798	1.51%	751.72 MB	5.55%
11	eot	7,449	1.44%	584.2 MB	4.31%
12	mo	6,302	1.22%	64.66 MB	0.48%
13	less	6,019	1.16%	25.31 MB	0.19%
14	woff2	5,887	1.14%	285.97 MB	2.11%
15	po	5,724	1.11%	120.32 MB	0.89%
16	pot	3,972	0.77%	68.43 MB	0.50%
17	gif	3,830	0.74%	30.02 MB	0.22%
18	otf	2,650	0.51%	305.65 MB	2.26%
19	md	1,717	0.33%	17.15 MB	0.13%
20	html	1,708	0.33%	19.29 MB	0.14%
21	json	1,317	0.25%	118.98 MB	0.88%
22	map	1,144	0.22%	128.08 MB	0.95%

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2. Plugins Data

The total size of plugins (38,896) is 35.68 GB split across 2,453,671 files in 459,711 folders.

Total number of active plugin installations is ~246 million.

A little more than 16% of plugins (6,414) have never been updated since their initial release. These plugins have a total of 420,900+ active installations.

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A reminder that version 5.5 of WordPress is 45.5 MB and contains 1,980 Files in 249 Folders.

 

2.1 Top 20 Plugins by Total Disk Size

There are 4 plugins that are larger than 100.0 MB.
There are 14 plugins that are larger than 50.0 MB.
There are 109 plugins that are larger than 25.0 MB.
There are 312 plugins that are larger than 15.0 MB.
There are 651 plugins that are larger than 10.0 MB.

#	Plugin	Size	Files	Folders	Installs
1	Awesome Support – WordPress HelpDesk & Support Plugin	109.34 MB	1,149	182	10,000
2	Bg forReaders	107.68 MB	763	27	60
3	Skytells Guard – All-In-One Security Pack	101.3 MB	1,041	199	0
4	Thrinacia Atlas CrowdFunding	100.52 MB	2,893	426	10
5	Awesome Event Booking	95.87 MB	773	93	100
6	Send PDF for Contact Form 7	93.55 MB	653	76	9,000
7	Web To Print Shop : uDraw	82.79 MB	3,075	345	200
8	HoweScape Unity3d WebGL	78.97 MB	95	16	300
9	Limelight Checkout	71.04 MB	474	101	40
10	Reuse Builder	64.42 MB	413	69	400
11	Woocommerce Multi Warehouses – Location Based Inventory Management	59.43 MB	111	40	40
12	Доставка КСЭ для WooCommerce	54.21 MB	46	13	0
13	DPD in Russia – Shipping for WooCommerce	53.99 MB	460	159	100
14	WZone – Lite Version	53.1 MB	1,125	132	2,000
15	Docket WP	47.52 MB	303	29	0
16	Limelight Forms	46.85 MB	347	96	20
17	Media Cloud for Amazon S3, Imgix, Google Cloud Storage, DigitalOcean Spaces and more	46.78 MB	4,493	2,594	5,000
18	WP Editor.md – The Perfect WordPress Markdown Editor	46.06 MB	2,530	331	3,000
19	Point of Sale POS for WooCommerce	46 MB	366	40	700
20	Awesome Studio	44.72 MB	8,724	614	30

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2.2 Top 20 Plugins by number of Files

There are 6 plugins that have 10,000 files or more.
There are 15 plugins that have 5,000 files or more.
There are 83 plugins that have 2,000 files or more.
There are 86 plugins that have more files than WordPress itself.
There are 348 plugins that have 1,000 files or more.

#	Plugin	Size	Files	Folders	Installs
1	Simple Calendar – Google Calendar Plugin	34.61 MB	13,533	610	80,000
2	GOAuth	32.35 MB	12,122	547	0
3	Grid Social Boxes	30.16 MB	12,102	550	10
4	Google Sheets Integration for Caldera Forms	28.14 MB	11,643	511	5,000
5	Order Receipt Print for WooCommerce Google Cloud Print	26.12 MB	10,449	498	1,000
6	Sufias Daily Gift	33.97 MB	10,020	850	0
7	CF7 Spreadsheets	24.1 MB	9,894	483	700
8	Awesome Studio	44.72 MB	8,724	614	30
9	Civic Job Posting	20.02 MB	7,878	421	0
10	WP Keliosis	32.14 MB	6,479	47	0
11	Authorizer	19.36 MB	6,433	441	3,000
12	Compressed Emoji	9.09 MB	6,218	3	100
13	Responsive cropped Yummy images, pictures and thumbnails	15.89 MB	5,848	565	0
14	Matomo Analytics – Ethical Stats. Powerful Insights.	40.84 MB	5,566	996	9,000
15	OkuPanel	20.47 MB	5,185	394	10
16	Backup, Restore and Migrate WordPress Sites With the XCloner Plugin	35.02 MB	4,689	989	40,000
17	Wubtitle	13.43 MB	4,654	173	0
18	Google Adwords – Optimize Your Campaigns – Google Shopping – Google Ads	25.64 MB	4,649	616	30
19	Media Cloud for Amazon S3, Imgix, Google Cloud Storage, DigitalOcean Spaces and more	46.78 MB	4,493	2,594	5,000
20	UCM Files Manager Addon (UCM FM)	28.92 MB	4,492	1,323	0

The Simple Calendar – Google Calendar Plugin with its 13,533 files and 80,000+ active installations means that there are over 1 billion files hosted worldwide just for this plugin.
The WooCommerce plugin with its 2,988 files and 5,000,000+ active installations means that there are close to 15 billion files hosted worldwide for it.

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2.3 Top 20 Plugins by number of Folders

There are 5 plugins that have 1,000 folders or more.
There are 56 plugins that have 500 folders or more.
There are 178 plugins that have 250 folders or more.

#	Plugin	Size	Files	Folders	Installs
1	Media Cloud for Amazon S3, Imgix, Google Cloud Storage, DigitalOcean Spaces and more	46.78 MB	4,493	2,594	5,000
2	AWS for WordPress	29.61 MB	2,905	1,440	9,000
3	UCM Files Manager Addon (UCM FM)	28.92 MB	4,492	1,323	0
4	Say It!	20.92 MB	2,145	1,118	70
5	WordPress Media Storage to Cloud for Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage, DigitalOcean and More	22.3 MB	2,120	1,112	50
6	Matomo Analytics – Ethical Stats. Powerful Insights.	40.84 MB	5,566	996	9,000
7	WP on AWS	19.11 MB	1,643	995	10
8	AWS S3 for WordPress Plugin – Upcasted	20.09 MB	1,682	992	0
9	Backup, Restore and Migrate WordPress Sites With the XCloner Plugin	35.02 MB	4,689	989	40,000
10	NexLogiQ Amazon S3 Links Generator	16.7 MB	1,514	978	0
11	DreamObjects Backups	16.4 MB	1,582	974	2,000
12	WordPress Amazon S3 – Wasabi Smart File Uploads Plugin	18.82 MB	1,506	963	50
13	SyncS3 Lite	15.82 MB	1,545	962	0
14	WC Download Products from AWS S3	15.67 MB	1,477	961	0
15	Nomore404 404 Redirection and Firewall	17.15 MB	1,437	959	0
16	Saber TTS (Text-to-Speech)	16.68 MB	1,431	954	0
17	Sync media with AWS S3 CloudFront	15.93 MB	1,396	935	0
18	Ultimate Media On The Cloud Lite	17.74 MB	1,850	881	0
19	Sufias Daily Gift	33.97 MB	10,020	850	0
20	DigitalOcean Spaces Sync	14.27 MB	1,889	827	1,000

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2.4 All Plugins (97) with more than 500,000 Active Installations

There are only 7 plugins active on more than 5,000,000 websites.
There are 19 plugins active on more than 2,000,000 websites.
There are 48 plugins active on more than 1,000,000 websites.
There are 97 plugins active on more than 500,000 websites.
There are 400 plugins active on more than 100,000 websites.
There are 706 plugins active on more than 50,000 websites.

#	Plugin	Size	Files	Folders	Installs
1	Akismet Anti-Spam	231.19 KB	27	3	5,000,000
2	Classic Editor	59.73 KB	4	1	5,000,000
3	Contact Form 7	539.06 KB	80	15	5,000,000
4	Elementor Page Builder	16.84 MB	534	132	5,000,000
5	Jetpack by WordPress.com	19.05 MB	1,553	316	5,000,000
6	WooCommerce	32.63 MB	2,988	537	5,000,000
7	Yoast SEO	10.78 MB	1,179	162	5,000,000
8	Really Simple SSL	835.89 KB	67	16	4,000,000
9	WordPress Importer	83.83 KB	9	1	4,000,000
10	Duplicate Post	133.84 KB	12	1	3,000,000
11	Wordfence Security – Firewall & Malware Scan	11.93 MB	665	112	3,000,000
12	Contact Form by WPForms – Drag & Drop Form Builder for WordPress	11.44 MB	739	158	3,000,000
13	All in One SEO Pack	2.99 MB	211	33	2,000,000
14	All-in-One WP Migration	1.07 MB	170	30	2,000,000
15	Google Analytics Dashboard Plugin for WordPress by MonsterInsights	7.29 MB	215	42	2,000,000
16	Google XML Sitemaps	1.86 MB	84	2	2,000,000
17	TinyMCE Advanced	768.52 KB	85	22	2,000,000
18	UpdraftPlus WordPress Backup Plugin	24.18 MB	1,353	204	2,000,000
19	WP Super Cache	2.82 MB	60	3	2,000,000
20	Advanced Custom Fields	7.02 MB	232	23	1,000,000
21	Autoptimize	743.72 KB	72	12	1,000,000
22	Better Search Replace	240.68 KB	46	8	1,000,000
23	Coming Soon Page, Under Construction & Maintenance Mode by SeedProd	4.41 MB	151	24	1,000,000
24	Cookie Notice for GDPR & CCPA	147.86 KB	17	4	1,000,000
25	Disable Comments	202.36 KB	32	4	1,000,000
26	Duplicate Page	78.05 KB	16	4	1,000,000
27	Duplicator – WordPress Migration Plugin	6.07 MB	312	51	1,000,000
28	Google Analytics Dashboard for WP by ExactMetrics (formerly GADWP)	11.32 MB	225	42	1,000,000
29	Insert Headers and Footers	24.19 KB	6	2	1,000,000
30	Smash Balloon Social Photo Feed	1.36 MB	92	9	1,000,000
31	Limit Login Attempts Reloaded	367.59 KB	49	9	1,000,000
32	LiteSpeed Cache	6.05 MB	258	29	1,000,000
33	Loco Translate	1.24 MB	276	57	1,000,000
34	Loginizer	637.6 KB	18	2	1,000,000
35	MC4WP: Mailchimp for WordPress	3.13 MB	175	38	1,000,000
36	Ninja Forms Contact Form – The Drag and Drop Form Builder for WordPress	19.19 MB	934	110	1,000,000
37	One Click Demo Import	272.91 KB	34	11	1,000,000
38	Marketing Toolkit by OptinMonster – Popups, Email Optin Forms & Newsletter Subscribers	7.61 MB	157	13	1,000,000
39	Redirection	4.31 MB	149	11	1,000,000
40	Regenerate Thumbnails	222.13 KB	10	5	1,000,000
41	Page Builder by SiteOrigin	1.14 MB	134	46	1,000,000
42	SiteOrigin Widgets Bundle	6.99 MB	439	165	1,000,000
43	W3 Total Cache	9.76 MB	1,319	133	1,000,000
44	WooCommerce Services	4.42 MB	285	8	1,000,000
45	ManageWP Worker	1.98 MB	343	64	1,000,000
46	WP Fastest Cache	1.2 MB	134	12	1,000,000
47	WP Mail SMTP by WPForms	6.25 MB	733	116	1,000,000
48	Smush – Compress, Image Optimizer, Lazy Load, WebP Images	4.73 MB	205	64	1,000,000
49	iThemes Security (formerly Better WP Security)	4.76 MB	1,017	210	900,000
50	Redux Framework	17.52 MB	728	138	900,000
51	SG Optimizer	4.89 MB	696	53	900,000
52	WP Multibyte Patch	41.24 KB	11	4	900,000
53	WP-Optimize – Clean, Compress, Cache.	6.47 MB	801	139	900,000
54	All In One WP Security & Firewall	3.79 MB	106	12	800,000
55	Breadcrumb NavXT	258.09 KB	24	2	800,000
56	GDPR Cookie Consent	1.47 MB	96	31	800,000
57	Custom Post Type UI	518.71 KB	25	6	800,000
58	EWWW Image Optimizer	16.19 MB	151	11	800,000
59	Facebook for WooCommerce	1.17 MB	131	60	800,000
60	Hello Dolly	3.14 KB	2	0	800,000
61	Mailchimp for WooCommerce	1.76 MB	239	55	800,000
62	MetaSlider	15.92 MB	950	215	800,000
63	WordPress Gallery Plugin – NextGEN Gallery	10.73 MB	1,443	207	800,000
64	WordPress Shortcodes Plugin — Shortcodes Ultimate	3.02 MB	259	49	800,000
65	TablePress	1009.35 KB	149	14	800,000
66	The Events Calendar	21.94 MB	1,666	307	800,000
67	WooCommerce PayPal Checkout Payment Gateway	691.04 KB	44	11	800,000
68	Broken Link Checker	3.24 MB	146	15	700,000
69	Really Simple CAPTCHA	2.09 MB	16	2	700,000
70	Sucuri Security – Auditing, Malware Scanner and Security Hardening	1017.14 KB	154	7	700,000
71	WooCommerce Admin	14.46 MB	492	63	700,000
72	WooCommerce Stripe Payment Gateway	665.36 KB	80	14	700,000
73	WP Maintenance Mode	6.34 MB	118	11	700,000
74	WP-PageNavi	100.96 KB	20	1	700,000
75	WPS Hide Login	147.91 KB	40	10	700,000
76	YITH WooCommerce Wishlist	6.27 MB	316	45	700,000
77	Starter Templates – Elementor, Beaver Builder, Gutenberg & Brizy Templates	2.26 MB	129	30	600,000
78	BackWPup – WordPress Backup Plugin	11.63 MB	1,577	308	600,000
79	Black Studio TinyMCE Widget	338.81 KB	85	4	600,000
80	Essential Addons for Elementor	8.27 MB	331	57	600,000
81	Flamingo	122.45 KB	28	6	600,000
82	Elementor – Header, Footer & Blocks Template	742.51 KB	115	33	600,000
83	Ocean Extra	9.5 MB	670	108	600,000
84	Smart Slider 3	10.68 MB	870	337	600,000
85	User Role Editor	990.18 KB	75	7	600,000
86	File Manager	10.78 MB	867	189	600,000
87	AddToAny Share Buttons	694.97 KB	183	2	500,000
88	AMP	4.75 MB	394	73	500,000
89	Antispam Bee	258.25 KB	19	3	500,000
90	Disable Gutenberg	1001.88 KB	20	8	500,000
91	Force Regenerate Thumbnails	0 B	0	0	500,000
92	Site Kit by Google	8.31 MB	952	121	500,000
93	Meta Box – WordPress Custom Fields Framework	754.74 KB	246	23	500,000
94	Polylang	1.81 MB	446	36	500,000
95	Popup Maker – Popup Forms, Opt-ins & More	4.92 MB	470	79	500,000
96	Post Types Order	180.56 KB	18	6	500,000
97	WP Statistics	8.78 MB	904	101	500,000

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2.5 Top 20 Plugins by number of Ratings

• There are only 8 plugins that have 5,000 ratings or more.
• There are 26 plugins that have 2,000 ratings or more.
• There are 68 plugins that have 1,000 ratings or more.
• There are 146 plugins that have 500 ratings or more.
• There are 299 plugins that have 250 ratings or more.
• There are 767 plugins that have 100 ratings or more.
• There are 17,439 plugins (44.83%) that have never been rated. These plugins have 2.32+ million active installations (0.94% of total).

#	Plugin	Installs	Ratings
1	Yoast SEO	5,000,000	27,213
2	Contact Form by WPForms – Drag & Drop Form Builder for WordPress	3,000,000	7,206
3	All-in-One WP Migration	2,000,000	6,375
4	WordPress Shortcodes Plugin — Shortcodes Ultimate	800,000	5,397
5	Elementor Page Builder	5,000,000	5,359
6	Really Simple SSL	4,000,000	5,229
7	Smush – Compress, Image Optimizer, Lazy Load, WebP Images	1,000,000	5,127
8	Social Media Share Buttons & Social Sharing Icons	200,000	5,006
9	W3 Total Cache	1,000,000	4,537
10	Popup Maker – Popup Forms, Opt-ins & More	500,000	4,037
11	TablePress	800,000	3,863
12	Coming Soon Page, Under Construction & Maintenance Mode by SeedProd	1,000,000	3,833
13	iThemes Security (formerly Better WP Security)	900,000	3,830
14	UpdraftPlus WordPress Backup Plugin	2,000,000	3,609
15	WooCommerce	5,000,000	3,601
16	WordPress Gallery Plugin – NextGEN Gallery	800,000	3,589
17	Wordfence Security – Firewall & Malware Scan	3,000,000	3,570
18	WP Fastest Cache	1,000,000	3,161
19	Gutenberg	200,000	3,153
20	Smash Balloon Social Photo Feed	1,000,000	2,923

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2.6 The Top 100 Worst Rated Plugins (with at least 25 ratings)

The purpose of this is info is to provide some product research ideas, and not to shame the developers of these plugins.

#	Plugin	Installs	Ratings	1-2 Star Ratings	Average score
1	Premium Social Login with Social Data Integration (Paid)	900	39	38	22
2	Campaign Monitor for WordPress	4,000	33	28	32
3	WooCommerce Square	90,000	57	46	32
4	Gutenberg	200,000	3,153	2309	40
5	Constant Contact for WordPress	4,000	63	41	44
6	WooCommerce Services	1,000,000	52	35	46
7	WP CleanFix	2,000	26	16	46
8	Google Analytics Dashboard for WP by ExactMetrics (formerly GADWP)	1,000,000	1,393	890	48
9	Mercado Pago payments for WooCommerce	50,000	130	84	48
10	Spam Free WordPress	9,000	43	28	48
11	WooCommerce Blocks	200,000	41	26	48
12	WooCommerce PayPal Checkout Payment Gateway	800,000	83	52	48
13	The Official Facebook Chat Plugin	80,000	50	31	50
14	Best Quiz Plugin for WordPress: WP Quiz	10,000	36	20	52
15	Instant Articles for WP	40,000	87	50	52
16	Pinterest Pin It Button For Images	5,000	35	20	52
17	Twitter	30,000	34	20	52
18	WooCommerce PayPal Powered by Braintree Payment Gateway	50,000	41	25	52
19	Bulk Attribute Manager For Woocommerce	1,000	26	15	54
20	EasyRecipe	5,000	61	35	54
21	Facebook for WooCommerce	800,000	114	64	54
22	Hello Dolly	800,000	225	129	54
23	A2 Optimized WP	50,000	29	16	56
24	Disqus Comment System	100,000	194	101	56
25	MailChimp List Subscribe Form	100,000	70	36	56
26	Network Publisher	1,000	27	15	56
27	Cackle	1,000	26	12	58
28	Crowdsignal Polls & Ratings	10,000	31	14	58
29	Dynamic Product Gallery for WooCommerce	5,000	34	17	58
30	Live Chat from ClickDesk – Live Chat – Help Desk Plugin for Websites	2,000	40	20	58
31	Master Accordion ( Former WP Awesome FAQ Plugin )	3,000	29	13	58
32	Social Sharing Toolkit	9,000	103	52	58
33	YITH WooCommerce Social Login	10,000	35	17	58
34	Constant Contact Forms	40,000	58	29	60
35	DNUI	8,000	63	30	60
36	JinMenu	800	27	13	60
37	Lingotek Translation	30,000	31	12	60
38	Poll, Survey, Questionnaire and Voting system	1,000	32	17	60
39	SendGrid	100,000	71	35	60
40	TheCartPress eCommerce Shopping Cart	500	27	14	60
41	WooCommerce Google Analytics Integration	100,000	79	37	60
42	WOW Slider	10,000	97	45	60
43	Automatic Youtube Video Posts Plugin	2,000	75	34	62
44	Cimy User Extra Fields	10,000	35	15	62
45	dsIDXpress	4,000	60	27	62
46	Flare	4,000	46	19	62
47	JTRT Responsive Tables	5,000	33	14	62
48	NextGEN Gallery Optimizer	6,000	29	14	62
49	Optima Express + MarketBoost IDX Plugin	10,000	29	13	62
50	Pricing Table	4,000	88	43	62
51	Printful Integration for WooCommerce	40,000	27	13	62
52	Product Sort and Display for WooCommerce	5,000	44	21	62
53	WordPress Importer	4,000,000	290	133	62
54	WP Author, Date and Meta Remover	20,000	27	13	62
55	WPB Product Quick View Popup for WooCommerce	3,000	27	12	62
56	YITH WooCommerce Gift Cards	6,000	29	13	62
57	Blogger Importer	100,000	48	18	64
58	Exploit Scanner	30,000	40	17	64
59	HC Custom WP-Admin URL	20,000	44	18	64
60	IMPress for IDX Broker	10,000	29	11	64
61	Link Checker	10,000	26	10	64
62	Native Lazyload	10,000	27	12	64
63	Predictive Search for WooCommerce	3,000	46	20	64
64	Sell Media	1,000	43	17	64
65	Woocommerce Payment Gateway per Product Premium	1,000	26	11	64
66	WP Deferred JavaScripts	5,000	35	17	64
67	WP Email Template	4,000	34	14	64
68	WP Meetup	600	32	12	64
69	YITH WooCommerce Badge Management	10,000	52	24	64
70	Contact Form Builder by vCita	3,000	43	18	66
71	Custom My Account for Woocommerce	4,000	51	20	66
72	Documentor – Create Product Documentation	1,000	39	17	66
73	Far Future Expiry Header	20,000	28	11	66
74	GetResponse for WordPress	10,000	32	13	66
75	Gravity Forms Directory	3,000	35	13	66
76	New User Approve	20,000	43	16	66
77	PHP Compatibility Checker	200,000	84	35	66
78	Social Shop for WooCommerce	4,000	27	12	66
79	Uji Countdown	10,000	50	19	66
80	WooCommerce Amazon & eBay Integration – Codisto LINQ by Codisto	800	28	12	66
81	WordPress Social Sharing Plugin – Social Warfare	60,000	169	69	66
82	WP Amazon Shop for Dropshipping & Affiliation	4,000	29	11	66
83	WP-Invoice – Web Invoice and Billing	3,000	59	24	66
84	Aspose.Words Exporter	3,000	36	13	68
85	Event Tickets	40,000	69	28	68
86	Google Analytics	300,000	117	44	68
87	Google Places Reviews	6,000	43	16	68
88	Lightbox Gallery	30,000	43	16	68
89	LionScripts: IP Blocker Lite	2,000	27	10	68
90	Social Gallery Lite	200	28	9	68
91	TechGasp Comments Master	500	35	14	68
92	Twitter Widget Pro	10,000	65	25	68
93	WooCommerce Stripe Payment Gateway	700,000	74	26	68
94	WordPress Mobile Pack – Mobile Plugin for Progressive Web Apps & Hybrid Mobile Apps	7,000	70	26	68
95	WP eCommerce	10,000	258	94	68
96	WP-Property – WordPress Powered Real Estate and Property Management	4,000	78	29	68
97	YITH WooCommerce Ajax Search	70,000	43	17	68
98	Yotpo: Product & Photo Reviews for WooCommerce	4,000	42	15	68
99	Agy – Age verification for WooCommerce	3,000	26	9	70
100	BuddyPress Like	3,000	26	9	70

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2.7 Plugin Ratings Breakdown

• There are 543,961 plugin ratings in total.
• There are 6,060 plugins (15.5%) with a single rating.

All Plugin Ratings

Rating	Ratings	Percentage
	39,903	7.34%
	8,354	1.54%
	9,495	1.75%
	22,107	4.06%
	464,098	85.32%
Total	543,961

 

Ratings for Plugins with only 1 rating

Rating	Ratings	Percentage
	401	6.62%
	79	1.30%
	137	2.26%
	263	4.34%
	5,180	85.48%
Total	6,060

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2.8 Top 20 Plugins by number of Support Threads

Total number of support threads created in the last 2 months is 52,968 (882 per day).

There are only 4 plugins that have over 500 new forum threads.
There are 11 plugins that have over 250 new forum threads.
There are 47 plugins that have over 100 new forum threads.
There are 128 plugins that have over 50 new forum threads.
There are 293 plugins that have over 25 new forum threads.

More than 8% of all new support threads on WordPress.org/Plugins are for WooCommerce and WooCommerce-related plugins.

Last week WPTavern.com published an interesting article on the topic of premium themes and plugins being supported via WordPress.org: WordPress Support Team Seeks to Curb Support Requests for Commercial Plugins and Themes.

#	Plugin	Installs	Ratings	Support Threads
1	WooCommerce	5,000,000	3,601	2,736
2	Yoast SEO	5,000,000	27,213	822
3	Contact Form 7	5,000,000	1,789	580
4	Ultimate Member – User Profile & Membership Plugin	100,000	1,038	504
5	Wordfence Security – Firewall & Malware Scan	3,000,000	3,570	400
6	LiteSpeed Cache	1,000,000	1,123	329
7	Jetpack by WordPress.com	5,000,000	1,516	326
8	WCFM – Frontend Manager for WooCommerce along with Bookings Subscription Listings Compatible	20,000	154	305
9	TablePress	800,000	3,863	290
10	Autoptimize	1,000,000	1,112	267
11	Elementor Page Builder	5,000,000	5,359	253
12	Site Kit by Google	500,000	153	248
13	WCFM Marketplace – Best Multivendor Marketplace for WooCommerce	20,000	175	232
14	TranslatePress – Translate Multilingual sites	100,000	231	227
15	WooCommerce PDF Invoices & Packing Slips	200,000	946	210
16	Facebook for WooCommerce	800,000	114	207
17	UpdraftPlus WordPress Backup Plugin	2,000,000	3,609	204
18	MailPoet – emails and newsletters in WordPress	100,000	833	202
19	AMP for WP – Accelerated Mobile Pages	100,000	964	198
20	WordPress SEO Plugin – Rank Math	400,000	1,618	198

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2.9 Top 20 Plugins Authors by number of Plugins

Total number of plugin authors: 19,965

There are 7 developers with 50 plugins or more.
There are 28 developers with 30 plugins or more.
There are 96 developers with 20 plugins or more.
There are 429 developers with 10 plugins or more.
There are 1,235 developers with 3 plugins.
There are 2,989 developers with 2 plugins.
There are 13,641 developers with 1 plugin.

The Installs P/P column shows the average number of active installations per plugin.

#	Author	Plugins	Total Installs	Installs P/P	Ratings
1	GamiPress	123	25,490	207	210
2	Peter Shaw	108	10,390	96	100
3	Scott Reilly	63	122,360	1,942	313
4	YITH	63	1,537,300	24,402	1,264
5	Katsushi Kawamori	61	36,850	604	181
6	AccessPress Themes	57	298,960	5,245	361
7	Gopi Ramasamy	56	42,000	750	116
8	BestWebSoft	48	482,660	10,055	1,622
9	miniOrange	47	83,770	1,782	977
10	Algoritmika Ltd	42	26,680	635	122
11	WP OnlineSupport	41	313,300	7,641	727
12	Automattic	41	14,670,960	357,828	4,969
13	Coffee4dev.com	37	2,130	58	32
14	weblizar	37	227,670	6,153	778
15	phoeniixx	36	31,490	875	320
16	Fahad Mahmood	36	34,360	954	385
17	DeMomentSomTres	35	9,510	272	49
18	Wow-Company.	35	45,990	1,314	124
19	Brainstorm Force	35	2,003,840	57,253	1,515
20	NsThemes	32	5,240	164	55

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2.10 Top 100 Most used Words in Plugin Names

1. woocommerce – 3,611
2. widget – 1,163
3. post – 1,084
4. simple – 915
5. custom – 903
6. form – 811
7. page – 732
8. image – 730
9. easy – 716
10. social – 654
11. contact – 623
12. product – 606
13. manager – 575
14. posts – 573
15. gateway – 573
16. payment – 559
17. slider – 552
18. google – 544
19. login – 513
20. gallery – 503
21. admin – 495
22. builder – 479
23. content – 469
24. forms – 464
25. integration – 451
26. user – 427
27. menu – 406
28. elementor – 389
29. lite – 378
30. email – 373
31. search – 373
32. block – 363
33. media – 352
34. shortcode – 350
35. advanced – 347
36. woo – 344
37. responsive – 337
38. seo – 310
39. video – 302
40. analytics – 284
41. chat – 280
42. live – 280
43. add – 279
44. button – 268
45. bar – 268
46. popup – 266
47. disable – 264
48. order – 263
49. category – 262
50. blocks – 252
51. list – 249
52. theme – 245
53. link – 241
54. free – 238
55. feed – 238
56. gravity – 237
57. editor – 236
58. shipping – 236
59. api – 233
60. pro – 233
61. comments – 229
62. share – 226
63. auto – 225
64. images – 216
65. cart – 212
66. widgets – 207
67. calendar – 206
68. products – 206
69. links – 203
70. ultimate – 199
71. remove – 198
72. checkout – 197
73. featured – 195
74. embed – 193
75. your – 192
76. site – 192
77. gutenberg – 190
78. digital – 188
79. pages – 185
80. shortcodes – 185
81. generator – 184
82. hide – 182
83. text – 182
84. booking – 182
85. buttons – 182
86. code – 182
87. redirect – 181
88. comment – 181
89. dashboard – 179
90. fields – 178
91. display – 173
92. events – 172
93. mobile – 170
94. scroll – 170
95. add-on – 167
96. box – 167
97. web – 165
98. map – 164
99. all – 163
100. import – 161

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2.11 Top File Extensions in Plugins

I decided to include this data too. If you found this useful, please let me know in the comments section 🙂

#	Extension	Files	Files %	Files Size	Size %
1	php	1,229,440	50.11%	7.82 GB	21.92%
2	png	243,975	9.94%	3.98 GB	11.15%
3	js	229,531	9.35%	5.9 GB	16.53%
4	css	111,790	4.56%	1.81 GB	5.08%
5	svg	98,348	4.01%	2.39 GB	6.69%
6	mo	57,062	2.33%	871.12 MB	2.38%
7	po	53,284	2.17%	1.64 GB	4.60%
8	txt	48,549	1.98%	552.74 MB	1.51%
9	json	41,590	1.70%	828.81 MB	2.27%
10	scss	33,630	1.37%	105.24 MB	0.29%
11	md	27,968	1.14%	189.72 MB	0.52%
12	jpg	25,389	1.03%	1.53 GB	4.28%
13	html	23,694	0.97%	161.01 MB	0.44%
14	gif	23,047	0.94%	499.92 MB	1.37%
15	dat	13,309	0.54%	242.66 MB	0.66%
16	ttf	11,074	0.45%	1.65 GB	4.64%
17	pot	10,286	0.42%	196.94 MB	0.54%
18	test	9,760	0.40%	4.75 MB	0.01%
19	map	9,574	0.39%	1.1 GB	3.08%
20	woff	9,081	0.37%	460.91 MB	1.26%
21	eot	8,058	0.33%	606.19 MB	1.66%
22	xml	7,925	0.32%	270.83 MB	0.74%
23	less	7,686	0.31%	42.37 MB	0.12%
24	rst	6,263	0.26%	17.31 MB	0.05%
25	woff2	6,175	0.25%	288.79 MB	0.79%
26	yml	6,165	0.25%	28.36 MB	0.08%
27	ts	4,140	0.17%	10.5 MB	0.03%
28	gitignore	3,985	0.16%	477.04 KB	0.00%
29	phpt	3,245	0.13%	2.98 MB	0.01%
30	dist	2,760	0.11%	2.38 MB	0.01%
31	twig	2,694	0.11%	5.72 MB	0.02%
32	bcmap	2,688	0.11%	17.79 MB	0.05%

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3. Conclusions

I’m glad to see that 93% of theme reviews and 89% of plugin reviews are positive.
The Gutenberg plugin represents about 5% of all negative plugin reviews on WordPress.org. Take what you will from this information.

The total number of plugin ratings (543,961) divided by the number of plugins (38,896) equals ~13.98.
The total number of theme ratings (39,742) divided by the number of themes (5,635) equals ~7.05.
This means that on average plugins receive twice as many reviews as themes.

Looking at these numbers it becomes clear why plugin developers are generally treated better than theme developers by the WordPress.org admins.

If you want to build a new business around WordPress, themes should probably be at the bottom of your ideas list.