WordPress Plugins · Rising Stars
Fastest-growing shortcode plugins
28-day download growth, ranked and dated. As of 2026-07-29. Ranked by exact download-count deltas from WordPress.org's own stats API. No forecasts, no composite score.
Leaderboard
| Rank | Plugin | 28d growth |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Animated Headline | +282% |
| 2 | eRecht24 Legal Texts | +100% |
| 3 | Lazy load videos and sticky control | +7.8% |
| 4 | W4 Post List | +7.0% |
| 5 | Shortcodes Finder | +4.8% |
| 6 | WP Sitemap Pages and Posts | +4.7% |
| 7 | Funny Text | +4.5% |
| 8 | WP Coder – Insert & Manage Code Snippets | +4.4% |
| 9 | Dinosaur Game | +4.4% |
| 10 | Snippet Shortcodes | +3.7% |
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