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WordPress Author Statistics

Statistics across every WordPress.org theme and plugin author: portfolio sizes, ratings, maintenance health and the most abandoned catalogs.

Every theme and plugin author on WordPress.org, aggregated across both directories · scanned 2026-10-13 · full leaderboard →

Authors in numbers

Total authors
42,514
with at least one theme or plugin listed
Plugins only
39,350
93% of all authors
Themes only
1,920
5% of all authors
Ship both
1,244
3% publish themes and plugins
One-item authors
71%
30,249 authors published exactly one thing
Top-10 concentration
36%
of all active installs belong to the ten biggest authors

Most themes published

  1. Automattic264 themes
  2. VW THEMES218 themes
  3. wpkoithemes183 themes
  4. Sonal S Sinha160 themes
  5. pewilliams155 themes
  6. ThinkUpThemes155 themes
  7. themepalace151 themes
  8. Catch Themes146 themes
  9. creativthemes146 themes
  10. themagnifico52146 themes

Most plugins published

  1. bPlugins106 plugins
  2. Syed Balkhi99 plugins
  3. WPClever94 plugins
  4. shawfactor90 plugins
  5. Automattic78 plugins
  6. add-ons.org74 plugins
  7. Scott Reilly63 plugins
  8. Jose Mortellaro57 plugins
  9. VillaTheme57 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 Balkhi52.2K reviews · 4.7★ avg
  2. Yoast28.5K reviews · 4.8★ avg
  3. Brainstorm Force18K reviews · 4.9★ avg
  4. David Anderson / Team Updraft14.8K 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. WebFactory8.2K reviews · 4.6★ avg

★ Best rated (200+ reviews)

  1. taisho5★ · 541 reviews
  2. FunnelKit5★ · 1.5K reviews
  3. Bowo5★ · 473 reviews
  4. WP Socio5★ · 504 reviews
  5. WP Overnight5★ · 2K reviews
  6. Premio5★ · 4.8K reviews
  7. Fernando Tellado5★ · 225 reviews
  8. Arshid4.9★ · 2.4K reviews
  9. algol.plus4.9★ · 502 reviews
  10. Nick Diego4.9★ · 209 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. DevDiggers~1 days · 9 items
  2. Suhaib Siddiqi~1 days · 5 items
  3. Vanquish~1 days · 6 items
  4. Andy Feliciotti~1 days · 6 items
  5. Kitgenix~1 days · 8 items
  6. JeyTech~2 days · 7 items
  7. Matt Biscay~2 days · 8 items
  8. Productive Minds~2 days · 11 items
  9. ThemeAtelier~2 days · 7 items
  10. avakodeforge~2 days · 9 items

Least maintained (10K+ installs)

  1. Matt Mullenweg~13 years · 13 items · 601.6K installs
  2. toddhalfpenny~12.5 years · 9 items · 20.5K installs
  3. Konstantin Kovshenin~12.2 years · 19 items · 20.1K installs
  4. Luke Mlsna~12 years · 12 items · 11.2K installs
  5. Vladimir Prelovac~11.9 years · 20 items · 18.6K installs
  6. Andrew Nacin~11.9 years · 6 items · 21.6K installs
  7. scribu~11.8 years · 24 items · 27.7K installs
  8. Josh~11.6 years · 5 items · 41.1K installs
  9. Stephanie Leary~11.5 years · 16 items · 16.2K installs
  10. Sergey Biryukov~11.4 years · 25 items · 312.3K 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. Sunny Johal110K installs trapped · 2 items · newest update 5.2 years ago
  2. WooThemes109K installs trapped · 3 items · newest update 2.5 years ago
  3. Garrett Grimm101.4K installs trapped · 8 items · newest update 2 years ago
  4. Dave McHale80.1K installs trapped · 5 items · newest update 3.1 years ago
  5. David Clough70K installs trapped · 2 items · newest update 3.3 years ago
  6. webbistro65K installs trapped · 2 items · newest update 2.3 years ago
  7. Chris Jean60.7K installs trapped · 4 items · newest update 4.5 years ago
  8. Devin Price51.7K installs trapped · 6 items · newest update 6.1 years ago
  9. Yuichiro ABE50K installs trapped · 3 items · newest update 8.6 years ago
  10. Milan Dinić47.8K installs trapped · 21 items · newest update 7.5 years ago