Dumitru Brinzan wrote a PHP script that gathered and parsed public data in the WordPress plugin repo to take a closer look at trends in the 18,087 plugins added to the directory over the past three years. 🔌
If you want to create a plugin aimed at a specific audience, this kind of data is a great place to start. So is Jonathan Wold‘s followup to his first ecosystem plugin post, which focused on the “why?” question. His latest post focuses on the “how” and is written for developers and organizations. 👥