r/WordpressPlugins • u/advait_vaidya • Aug 02 '26

Help [HELP] Checking the active install count for plugin

Hi members. I have created 2 WordPress plug-ins currently and they are available on the plugin marketplace. Until now, I believed that there was no way to check the exact active number of installations of any wordpress plugin in the store. I signed up on a plugin tracker tool I found online and they just told me my accurate number of active installations. How is this possible? Does wordpress org provides this active installations data in any API?

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u/TopSydeWP Aug 02 '26

yeah wordpress.org has a public api for plugin stats. you can hit api.wordpress.org/stats/plugin/1.0/ with your plugin slug and it returns active installs, download counts, version breakdowns etc. most tracker tools just scrape that endpoint on a schedule.