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WordPress Author Statistics

Every theme and plugin author on WordPress.org, aggregated across both directories · scanned 2026-08-11 · full leaderboard →

Authors in numbers

Total authors
38,466
with at least one theme or plugin listed
Plugins only
35,407
92% of all authors
Themes only
1,892
5% of all authors
Ship both
1,167
3% publish themes and plugins
One-item authors
71%
27,248 authors published exactly one thing
Top-10 concentration
35%
of all active installs belong to the ten biggest authors

Most themes published

  1. Automattic261 themes
  2. VW THEMES216 themes
  3. wpkoithemes181 themes
  4. Sonal S Sinha157 themes
  5. ThinkUpThemes153 themes
  6. pewilliams151 themes
  7. themepalace151 themes
  8. Catch Themes145 themes
  9. themagnifico52144 themes
  10. creativthemes142 themes

Most plugins published

  1. bPlugins104 plugins
  2. Syed Balkhi98 plugins
  3. shawfactor90 plugins
  4. WPClever87 plugins
  5. Automattic77 plugins
  6. add-ons.org68 plugins
  7. Scott Reilly63 plugins
  8. VillaTheme57 plugins
  9. Jose Mortellaro56 plugins
  10. Katsushi Kawamori55 plugins

Reviews and ratings

Ratings are weighted by review count across an author's whole catalog, and the best-rated board requires 3+ items and 200+ reviews — one lucky five-star review is not a track record.

Most reviewed

  1. Syed Balkhi51.8K reviews · 4.7★ avg
  2. Yoast28.5K reviews · 4.8★ avg
  3. Brainstorm Force17.9K reviews · 4.9★ avg
  4. David Anderson / Team Updraft14.7K reviews · 4.8★ avg
  5. Automattic12.4K reviews · 4.3★ avg
  6. WPMU DEV - Your All-in-One WordPress Platform11.7K reviews · 4.7★ avg
  7. Inisev10.7K reviews · 4.9★ avg
  8. Nexcess9.2K reviews · 4.5★ avg
  9. Really Simple Plugins8.9K reviews · 4.9★ avg
  10. WebFactory8.1K reviews · 4.6★ avg

★ Best rated (200+ reviews)

  1. taisho5★ · 541 reviews
  2. FunnelKit5★ · 1.5K reviews
  3. Bowo5★ · 469 reviews
  4. WP Socio5★ · 504 reviews
  5. Tom5★ · 1.8K reviews
  6. WP Overnight5★ · 2K reviews
  7. Premio5★ · 4.8K reviews
  8. Fernando Tellado4.9★ · 212 reviews
  9. Arshid4.9★ · 2.4K reviews
  10. algol.plus4.9★ · 502 reviews

Maintenance

Average age of the last update across each author's catalog (5+ items with usable dates). The worst-maintained board is limited to portfolios with 10,000+ combined installs — neglect only matters when sites are running the code.

Best maintained

  1. supsystic~1 days · 7 items
  2. Admin Plugins~2 days · 5 items
  3. Bee Themes~2 days · 8 items
  4. iconvertpro~2 days · 7 items
  5. FlexaTech~3 days · 6 items
  6. Smart Cloud Solutions Inc.~3 days · 6 items
  7. Al Amin Ahamed~4 days · 10 items
  8. Desert Themes~4 days · 61 items
  9. catcodestudio~5 days · 6 items
  10. wpbranddigital~5 days · 6 items

Least maintained (10K+ installs)

  1. Matt Mullenweg~12.8 years · 13 items · 601.7K installs
  2. toddhalfpenny~12.3 years · 9 items · 20.5K installs
  3. Konstantin Kovshenin~12.1 years · 19 items · 20.1K installs
  4. Luke Mlsna~11.9 years · 12 items · 11.3K installs
  5. Vladimir Prelovac~11.7 years · 20 items · 28.6K installs
  6. Andrew Nacin~11.7 years · 6 items · 21.6K installs
  7. scribu~11.7 years · 24 items · 27.9K installs
  8. Josh~11.4 years · 5 items · 41.1K installs
  9. Stephanie Leary~11.4 years · 16 items · 16.1K installs
  10. Sergey Biryukov~11.2 years · 25 items · 312.5K installs

Fully abandoned portfolios

Authors whose newest update is 2+ years old — the whole catalog is effectively unmaintained — ranked by the active installs still running it.

  1. envato408K installs trapped · 2 items · newest update 2 years ago
  2. Sunny Johal110K installs trapped · 2 items · newest update 5.1 years ago
  3. WooThemes109K installs trapped · 3 items · newest update 2.4 years ago
  4. Reisetiger100K installs trapped · 2 items · newest update 3.3 years ago
  5. Dave McHale80.1K installs trapped · 5 items · newest update 2.9 years ago
  6. David Clough70K installs trapped · 2 items · newest update 3.1 years ago
  7. webbistro65K installs trapped · 2 items · newest update 2.1 years ago
  8. Chris Jean60.6K installs trapped · 4 items · newest update 4.3 years ago
  9. Devin Price51.8K installs trapped · 6 items · newest update 6 years ago
  10. Yuichiro ABE50K installs trapped · 3 items · newest update 8.5 years ago