Unhappy with the offical Wordpress Repositroy to gather information i scraped it through their API. Maybe some people manage to find great plugins with the dataset[1] or opportunietes since there a lot of unmaintained plugins.
some first insights were:
- 40% of all plugins "died"
- people tend to rate always with 5 stars and sometimes with 1 star.
- security is the most downloaded tag, however there are not so many security plugins
- seo realted tag are gettig combined the most attention
[1] https://github.com/jcmpagel/wordpress-dataset