A commercial WordPress plugin for building custom front-end user registration and login forms, sold at $10-$35 licence tiers. Pippin Williamson sold it to Nikhil Vimal of Techvoltz.
WordPress popup and notification-bar plugin for capturing email leads and showing announcements with unlimited impressions. Scott Bolinger sold it to Groundhogg Inc. in 2022; terms undisclosed.
WordPress plugin that lets users insert PHP, CSS, JS and header/footer snippets without editing theme files. Acquired by Themeisle in October 2025; terms undisclosed.
WordPress plugin that converts Cyrillic and Georgian URLs and uploaded file names to Latin characters across all post types. Acquired by Themeisle in November 2025; terms undisclosed.
WordPress plugin that strips the /category/ base out of category permalinks. Acquired by Themeisle in November 2025; terms undisclosed.
WordPress plugin that routed site email through Amazon SES instead of wp_mail for better deliverability. Acquired by Delicious Brains Inc in December 2017; terms undisclosed.
WordPress plugin adding Google reCAPTCHA v2, invisible and v3 protection to login, registration and comment forms. Acquired from Melapress by Devesh Sharma of WPKube in May 2025; terms undisclosed.
WordPress optimisation plugin that minifies HTML/CSS/JS, caches pages and strips WordPress code bloat. Acquired by Super Page Cache in October 2025; terms undisclosed.
WordPress plugin that selectively disables other plugins scripts and styles on individual pages to speed up load times. Acquired by Super Page Cache in October 2025; terms undisclosed.
WordPress file manager and in-browser code editor with syntax highlighting for editing wp-content files without FTP. Acquired by XplodedThemes in April 2022; terms undisclosed.
WordPress plugin giving granular control to disable core, plugin and theme updates individually or entirely. Acquired by Themeisle in January 2026; terms undisclosed.
A WordPress theme blog publishing tutorials, theme reviews and educational content since 2007, later turned into a commercial theme shop by its buyer Syed Balkhi.
A small managed WordPress hosting company serving bloggers and small businesses. Acquired all-cash by rival host Page.ly for an undisclosed sum.
A widely installed free WordPress plugin adding social sharing and bookmarking buttons for dozens of networks to posts and pages. Its author sold it to the Startups.com team, who renamed it BlogPlay.
A one-man WordPress SEO auditing and consulting service. Acquired by WP Site Care, with its founder joining as Director of Digital Strategy.
A WordPress maintenance and support service offering 24/7 security monitoring, off-site backups, weekly core and plugin updates and a dedicated support desk. Acquired by agency WebDevStudios for an undisclosed amount.
A three-person Australian WordPress development agency building custom client sites, absorbed into UK agency Human Made.
A popular free WordPress plugin that cleaned and optimised the site database, removing trash, spam comments and expired transients and compacting MySQL tables. Acquired by UpdraftPlus.
A theme shop selling 26 commercial WordPress themes built on the Genesis Framework, run as a side business by an SEO consultancy. Acquired by agency 9seeds for an undisclosed amount.
A WordPress support-services company known for its unlimited-jobs support model for site owners. Acquired by WP Site Care.
WordPress plugin that displays Instagram, Facebook and YouTube feeds on a site via widgets or shortcodes. Acquired by Themeisle in November 2025; terms undisclosed.
WordPress plugin that cloaks and manages affiliate links as clean branded redirects on your own domain and tracks clicks. Acquired by wecantrack in Q4 2024; terms undisclosed.
WordPress plugin that transliterates Cyrillic, Georgian and other non-Latin characters in URLs and file names into Latin. Acquired by Themeisle in November 2025; terms undisclosed.
WordPress plugin that disables comments globally or per post type and bulk-deletes existing comments. Acquired by Themeisle in January 2026; terms undisclosed.
WordPress plugin that hides or removes admin notices and dashboard notifications from wp-admin. Acquired by Themeisle in November 2025; terms undisclosed.