For Wordpress plugin developers: keep a register of when and where your plugins are activated.
As of April 2026, Plugin Register is a WordPress count plugin with 10 active installations and a 1/5 rating from 1 reviews. It has been downloaded 9.9K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 2.8+ and PHP 5.6+. Available on WordPress.org since 2010. Last updated 8 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Simple Download Monitor.
If you are a WordPress plugin developer the chances are your plugins are available for download from the WordPress plugin repository. As part of that service the nice guys at WordPress show you how many downloads of your plugin you get per day. Very useful, and if you’re like me you check your downloads numbers very often.
However what these stats don’t show you is where your plugin is in use – which sites it is actually being activated on. Seeing that information would allow you to see exactly which sites are using your plugin, when they installed it, and what version the site is running. That is exactly what Plugin Register does.
By including the Plugin_Register class and calling it with some simple code in your plugin, your plugin will prompt the user to register your…
| WordPress | 2.8+ requiredTested up to 4.7.33 |
| PHP | 5.6+ required |
Moved screenshots to the right place (sorry).
Plugin data sourced from WordPress.org. Analysis and metrics by PluginSift.