Almost half the WordPress plugin directory has not been updated in two years

I indexed the WordPress.org plugin directory and measured how well it is maintained. The headline: of the 57,383 plugins in the index, 45.6 percent have not shipped an update in 24 or more months. Data is as of June 2026.

Here is the full staleness picture, measured against plugins that report an update date:

65 percent: no update in 6+ months

56 percent: no update in 12+ months

45.6 percent: no update in 24+ months