4 articles tagged WordPress.
A first count said 39.6% of WordPress sites ran a plugin the directory had closed. Checking every match by hand brought it to 4.8%. Here is each step down, what survived, and what the study cannot tell you.
A tool that fetches any URL a stranger types is an attack surface before it is anything else. How the plugin checker finds plugins from outside a site, and the layers that keep it from being pointed inward.
Real price bands for custom WordPress plugin work in 2026, what actually moves the number, the costs nobody puts in the quote, and how to write a brief that gets you an accurate one.
The code is the easy part. The reason plugins get rejected is almost always something small, avoidable, and documented in a handbook nobody read.
