Vendor health
Composite activity score per vendor: last release date, release cadence, blog publishing, product breadth. Sorted by abandonment risk so you can derisk a premium purchase before clicking buy.
- Healthy7Score ≥ 75
- Active12Score 50-74
- Watch16Score 25-49
- Risk5Score < 25
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Automattic
WordPress.com, WooCommerce, Jetpack, Tumblr. The company behind much of WordPress.
healthy90/100Last release: 46d ago (WooCommerce) 90d releases: 7 90d posts: 5 Products: 4 (1t) (3p) -
Awesome Motive
Syed Balkhi's WordPress product portfolio. WPForms, AIOSEO, MonsterInsights, OptinMonster, TrustPulse, more.
healthy90/100Last release: 44d ago (MonsterInsights) 90d releases: 7 90d posts: 3 Products: 4 (4p) -
WP Media
French WordPress products company. Makers of WP Rocket, Imagify, and RocketCDN.
healthy90/100Last release: 7d ago (BackWPup) 90d releases: 3 90d posts: 5 Products: 2 (2p) -
Brainstorm Force
WordPress products at scale. Astra, Spectra, Cartflows, Schema Pro.
healthy80/100Last release: 48d ago (Astra) 90d releases: 4 90d posts: 4 Products: 2 (2t) -
Elegant Themes
Divi, Bloom, Monarch. Membership-model WordPress products since 2008.
healthy80/100Last release: 51d ago (Divi) 90d releases: 3 90d posts: 5 Products: 2 (2t) -
Elementor
The page builder behemoth. Public company since 2022, headquartered in Israel.
healthy80/100Last release: 49d ago (Elementor) 90d releases: 3 90d posts: 5 Products: 3 (2t) (1p) -
ThemeIsle
Themes and plugins for WordPress. Best known for Neve, Hestia, Otter Blocks, Optimole.
healthy80/100Last release: 62d ago (Neve) 90d releases: 2 90d posts: 4 Products: 2 (2t) -
Defiant
WordPress security research and products. Wordfence, Wordfence Intelligence, threat feeds.
active70/100Last release: 43d ago (Wordfence) 90d releases: 2 90d posts: 5 Products: 1 (1p) -
Edge22 Studios
Independent shop behind GeneratePress and GenerateBlocks. Run by Tom Usborne since 2014.
active70/100Last release: 59d ago (GeneratePress) 90d releases: 2 90d posts: 5 Products: 1 (1t) -
LiteSpeed Technologies
LiteSpeed web server, LiteSpeed Cache for WordPress, and the hosting ecosystem built around them.
active70/100Last release: 48d ago (LiteSpeed Cache) 90d releases: 2 90d posts: 5 Products: 1 (1p) -
Meow Apps
Independent French dev shop by Jordy Meow. AI Engine, Photo Engine, Media Library Manager.
active70/100Last release: 44d ago (AI Engine) 90d releases: 3 90d posts: 5 Products: 1 (1p) -
Rank Math
WordPress SEO plugin. Free tier with the depth that competes head-to-head with Yoast Premium.
active70/100Last release: 46d ago (Rank Math) 90d releases: 3 90d posts: 5 Products: 1 (1p) -
UpdraftPlus
WordPress backup and migration. UK-based since 2013, most-installed backup plugin in the repo.
active70/100Last release: 55d ago (UpdraftPlus) 90d releases: 2 90d posts: 5 Products: 1 (1p) -
WordPress.org Core
The official WordPress project. Default themes, core plugins, the foundation everything else builds on.
active70/100Last release: 89d ago (Twenty Twenty-Five) 90d releases: 1 90d posts: 5 Products: 2 (2t) -
Yoast
The default WordPress SEO plugin since 2010. Yoast SEO, Premium, training, courses.
active70/100Last release: 47d ago (Yoast SEO) 90d releases: 3 90d posts: 5 Products: 1 (1p) -
Sucuri
Website security platform: cloud WAF, malware scanning, and incident cleanup. Owned by GoDaddy since 2017.
active65/100Last release: 6d ago (Sucuri Security) 90d releases: 0 90d posts: 5 Products: 1 (1p) -
WPMU DEV
WordPress hosting + plugins + agency tools. Smush, Hummingbird, Defender, SmartCrawl, Forminator.
active60/100Last release: 59d ago (Smush) 90d releases: 1 90d posts: 5 Products: 1 (1p) -
Kadence WP
Kadence theme + Kadence Blocks. Part of the Liquid Web / StellarWP family since 2022.
active55/100Last release: 52d ago (Kadence) 90d releases: 2 90d posts: 0 Products: 2 (1t) (1p) -
TeamUpdraft
UK-based maker of UpdraftPlus, All-In-One Security (AIOS), and WP-Optimize. Founded by David Anderson.
active55/100Last release: 38d ago (All-In-One Security (AIOS)) 90d releases: 0 90d posts: 5 Products: 1 (1p) -
Bricks Builder
Modern visual builder theme. Lifetime-license, cleaner markup, growing fast among performance-conscious agencies.
watch45/100Last release: 46d ago (Bricks) 90d releases: 3 90d posts: 0 Products: 1 (1t) -
CreativeThemes
Romania-based theme shop, makers of Blocksy. Block-first design philosophy.
watch45/100Last release: 55d ago (Blocksy) 90d releases: 2 90d posts: 0 Products: 1 (1t) -
Takayuki Miyoshi
Solo developer, Japan. Contact Form 7 since 2007.
watch45/100Last release: 86d ago (Contact Form 7) 90d releases: 1 90d posts: 1 Products: 1 (1p) -
ServMask
Maker of All-in-One WP Migration, one of the most-installed WordPress migration and backup plugins.
watch40/100Last release: 19d ago (All-in-One WP Migration) 90d releases: 0 90d posts: 0 Products: 1 (1p) -
ThemeFusion
Makers of Avada, the all-time best-selling WordPress theme on ThemeForest.
watch40/100Last release: 28d ago (Avada) 90d releases: 0 90d posts: 0 Products: 1 (1t) -
AI Puffer
Independent developer behind the AI Puffer WordPress plugin (formerly AI Power / GPT AI Power: Complete AI Pack).
watch35/100Last release: 52d ago (AI Puffer) 90d releases: 1 90d posts: 0 Products: 1 (1p) -
AIKit
Newer entrant in the AI plugin space. Chat-style interface, growing user base.
watch35/100Last release: 62d ago (AIKit) 90d releases: 1 90d posts: 0 Products: 1 (1p) -
Anders Norén
Solo developer behind Frost, Hemingway, Lingonberry, and other block + classic WordPress themes.
watch35/100Last release: 74d ago (Frost) 90d releases: 1 90d posts: 0 Products: 1 (1t) -
OceanWP
Independent theme shop behind OceanWP, one of the most-installed multipurpose WordPress themes.
watch35/100Last release: 66d ago (OceanWP) 90d releases: 1 90d posts: 0 Products: 1 (1t) -
Rocketgenius
Gravity Forms. The premium-only WordPress form plugin that defined the category.
watch35/100Last release: 54d ago (Gravity Forms) 90d releases: 1 90d posts: 0 Products: 1 (1p) -
Muffin Group
Creators of BeTheme, one of ThemeForest's biggest multipurpose themes.
watch30/100Last release: 49d ago (BeTheme) 90d releases: 0 90d posts: 0 Products: 1 (1t) -
Themeco
Makers of X and Pro, both built on the Cornerstone page builder.
watch30/100Last release: 41d ago (X Theme) 90d releases: 0 90d posts: 0 Products: 1 (1t) -
10Web
AI-powered WordPress hosting + builder + AI plugin portfolio. Armenia-based, hosting-backed.
watch25/10090d releases: 0 90d posts: 5 Products: 0 -
DreamHost
Independent California-based host since 1996, WordPress.org-recommended, no major holding-company ownership.
watch25/10090d releases: 0 90d posts: 5 Products: 0 -
Hostinger
Budget-tier hosting with LiteSpeed, integrated AI website builder, aggressive market share growth.
watch25/10090d releases: 0 90d posts: 5 Products: 0 -
Kinsta
Premium managed WordPress hosting on Google Cloud Platform. Container-isolated, edge-deployed assets, opinionated about performance.
watch25/10090d releases: 0 90d posts: 3 Products: 0 -
Bertha AI
AI content generation for WordPress. Early entrant in the WP-AI space, momentum slowed since 2024.
risk20/100Last release: 145d ago (Bertha AI) 90d releases: 0 90d posts: 0 Products: 1 (1p) -
Cloudways
Managed hosting on top of cloud infrastructure (DigitalOcean, Vultr, AWS, GCP). Acquired by DigitalOcean in 2022.
risk0/10090d releases: 0 90d posts: 0 Products: 0 -
Newfold Digital
Parent of Bluehost, HostGator, MOJO Marketplace, and (since 2023) Yoast. The largest WP-hosting holding company.
risk0/10090d releases: 0 90d posts: 0 Products: 0 -
SiteGround
Bulgaria-based hosting with strong WordPress optimization, LiteSpeed under the hood, official WordPress.org recommendation.
risk0/10090d releases: 0 90d posts: 0 Products: 0 -
WP Engine
The original managed WordPress hosting brand. Multiple tiers, owns the broader WP product portfolio (StudioPress, Local, Atlas).
risk0/10090d releases: 0 90d posts: 0 Products: 0
Scoring
Four 0-25 buckets summed. Recency of last release, release count in 90 days, blog posts in 90 days, product breadth in our directory. The worst-performing axis still affects the total, so a vendor cannot ride a single signal to a top score.
Data freshness
Release data pulls from each product's tracked changelog. Blog feeds refresh on every build via the vendor RSS aggregation. Scores are computed at build time and reflect the build moment.