2016’s trendiest WordPress plugins & themes on GoDaddy

The WordPress Hot 100 lists the WordPress themes and plugins that are trending on GoDaddy’s servers (i.e. Linux web hosting, Managed WordPress, VPS and Cloud). The system looks at the week-over-week change in installations, rather than total installations. What many don’t realize is that the WordPress Hot 100 is manually maintained. Since I’ve had the pleasure of looking after it for the past year, I wanted to give everyone a look at how it’s done.
Managing the WordPress Hot 100
The raw data hits my inbox on Monday morning. We don’t want to skew the list too much with our internal plugins and themes, so I comb through the list, line by line. (Themes built for our new WordPress Websites product are excluded, for example.) From there, I upload the list to get parsed by our Hot 100 web app.
The next step is the hardest. For every new plugin and theme that appears on the list, I need to run a bit of recon using the slug/ID. In most cases I’ll find a match on WordPress.org or a commercial theme marketplace. (We periodically get themes and plugins for which we just can’t find a matching site.)
Could all of this work be automated? Sure. But I don’t
Source: https://managewp.org/articles/13785/2016-s-trendiest-wordpress-plugins-themes-on-godaddy

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