WordPress ecosystem activity

A compact readout of community activity outside Core Trac and Gutenberg issues: releases, Make/Core discussion, WordCamps, events, translations, pledges, support, plugins, and themes.

Latest Core release props

756

WordPress 7.0 credits API

Make/Core commenters

124

Latest quarter: 2026-Q2

WordCamps in 2025

103

35.2k anticipated attendance

Latest full WordCamp quarter

41

2025-Q4 records

Upcoming events

293

273 Meetups, 20 WordCamps

Event-calendar quarter

5

2027-Q2: 3 groups

Translation locales

202

83.6k contributor profiles

Five for the Future hours

7,327

280 pledges fetched

Support topics sampled

1,315

25.9% resolved in current queue

Plugin directory

61.2k

1,943 plugins added in 30 days

Plugin sample quarters

2

3,663 new, 7,999 updated in latest sample quarter

Plugin search breadth

9

4 terms at 10k cap

Theme search breadth

17.4k

9 theme category probes

Theme directory

8,341

900 sampled themes, 222 commercial flags

Activity lanes

These lanes keep non-ticket activity separate from issue tracker flow, which helps avoid treating GitHub and Trac as the whole WordPress community.

Releases Latest credits snapshot: WordPress 7.0
816 people
Make/Core discussion 189 comments on 40 posts in latest quarter
124 commenters
Developer notes Release-tagged Make/Core dev-note posts in the latest quarter
5
WordCamps Latest full-year event count uses 2025
103
WordCamp quarterly history Latest complete quarter in the derived table is 2025-Q4
41 events
Events calendar 152 unique Meetup groups in current events snapshot
293 events
Upcoming event quarters Latest scheduled quarter is 2027-Q2
5 events
Translation 63 Core dev locales are at least 90% translated
202 locales
Pledged contribution Current Five for the Future public pledge listing
7,327 hrs/wk
Support queue 3,493 participants in current support snapshot
73.2% unresolved
Plugin maintenance Popular-plugin sample median update age is 25 days
41 stale 2y
Plugin directory activity 1,943 plugins added and 7,999 updated in 30 days; latest quarterly sample is 2026-Q2
61.2k plugins
Plugin ecosystem breadth Selected plugin-directory searches are led by Forms; + means the API result count hit the cap.
10.0k results
Theme ecosystem breadth Selected theme-directory searches are led by Blog. This is category breadth, not install share.
3,950 results
Theme directory activity 900 sampled themes across new, updated, and popular views; top rated-sample theme is Astra
8,341 themes

Recent patterns

Make/Core comments by quarter 0 320 640 2023 Q1 2026 Q2 189 Make/Core dev notes by quarter 0 20 40 2022 Q4 2026 Q2 5 Plugin additions by quarter 0 1,835 3,670 2026-Q1 2026-Q2 3,663 Plugin updates by quarter 0 4,000 8,000 2026-Q1 2026-Q2 7,999 WordCamp records by quarter 0 30 60 2016-Q1 2025-Q4 41 Upcoming events by quarter 0 65 130 2026-Q2 2027-Q2 5 Meetup groups by quarter 0 55 110 2026-Q2 2027-Q2 3 Core release props 0 460 920 6.1 7.0 756

Plugin ecosystem breadth

Current WordPress.org plugin search-result counts for selected ecosystem categories. A plus sign means the result count hit the API cap.

Forms+10.0k results
Performance+10.0k results
Security+10.0k results
WooCommerce+10.0k results
SEO6,449 results
Block editor6,417 results
Elementor4,867 results
AI3,882 results
Backup2,382 results

Theme ecosystem breadth

Current WordPress.org theme search-result counts for selected site categories. This shows theme-category supply, not theme installs.

Blog3,950 results
Business3,924 results
WooCommerce2,792 results
Portfolio1,937 results
Block themes1,356 results
Magazine1,191 results
Agency1,057 results
Education659 results
Restaurant545 results

How to read this

Community activity is wider than tickets.Release credits, discussion, events, translation, support, and directories show multiple active participation channels.
Some signals are snapshots.Events, support queues, plugin freshness, translation, and pledge counts are current-state views, while WordCamp, Make/Core, and release rows have historical shape.
Use this with tracker data.Fewer first-time reporters does not mean the whole ecosystem is inactive; it means tracker participation is softer than before.

Rows come from existing SQLite tables including wordcamp_yearly, wordcamp_quarterly, wp_event_activity_quarterly, make_core_comment_quarterly, make_core_dev_note_quarterly, core_release_credits, translation_snapshots, fttf_snapshots, support_forum_snapshot_summary, directory_activity_snapshots, plugin_directory_activity_sample, plugin_directory_activity_quarterly, plugin_search_snapshot, theme_search_snapshot, and theme_directory_activity_sample. Integrity check: ok. Latest WordCamp row in the database is 2027; current and future years are partial. Theme sample flags include 222 commercial and 18 community themes.