World Domination
Add WordPress market coverage summary to your dashboard.
Solid choice
World Domination is a solid plugin choice in 2026, with a few things worth checking first. It runs on 10+ sites, is rated 5/5 and was last updated 2 months ago, and scores 69/100 on our health check.
- Tested with the latest WordPress (7.1)
- Small user base (10+ active installs)
- Very few reviews so far
How does it stack up?
Side-by-side on installs, updates, ratings & support
Daily downloads
Download spikes usually follow a new release — each site that auto-updates counts as a download.
Rankings
Where World Domination stands todayWordPress.org search rankings
Live position in the plugin search, top 100| Keyword | Position |
|---|---|
| cms | >100 |
| coverage | #50 |
| market | >100 |
| share | >100 |
| w3tech | #1 |
Version adoption
Share of active sites per release.
Rating breakdown
★★★★★★★★★★ 5 from 1 reviews
About World Domination
From the official readme · v2.2Description
Adds a summary of the current WordPress market coverage to your dashboard!
Basically screen scraping from the W3Techs website (don’t panic W3Techs, I’m caching the data – your website performance is safe!), this will display what percentage of websites (in total or that use CMS) are currently powered by WordPress. There are even shortcodes so that you can this information into your posts as well!
Now you can keep an eye on how close to world (aka internet) domination WordPress is achieving .
World Domination is a community plugin that follows both WordPress and WordPress VIP coding standards.
Iconography is courtesy of the very talented Janki Rathod.
Please visit the Github page for the latest code development, planned enhancements and known issues
Using the shortcodes
There are two shortcodes [wp_total_market] and [wp_cms_market]. Simply add these, wherever you wish within a post or page, to display the latest total or CMS market share data.
In both cases, the shortcode will be replaced by the relevant marketshare figure (WordPress as a proportion of all websites and of all CMS usage). Both will be shown in the format of xx.x%, with xx.x being the relevant percentage.
Toggling the dashboard image
You can toggle the dashboard image on and off by
- Head to Settings -> General
- Scroll down to the option named “Enable World Domination image”
- Tick or untick the box next to it
- Press the “Save Changes” button to update.
Installation
World Domination can be found and installed via the Plugin menu within WordPress administration (Plugins -> Add New). Alternatively, it can be downloaded from WordPress.org and installed manually…
- Upload the entire
world-dominationfolder to yourwp-content/plugins/directory. - Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress administration.
Voila! It’s ready to go.
Frequently asked questions
Hey! My dashboard figure is different to the one shown on W3Techs
For performance reasons I cache the dashboard information for one week so, if the market figure changes in the meantime, you will get this discrepancy. If you find this keeps happening, please let me know and I’ll look at refreshing the cache more regularly.
I don’t like the graphic on the dashboard that shows the percentage. Can I switch it off?
Yes you can! Head to Settings -> General in WP Admin and find the tickbox for this.
The dashboard graphic keeps changing color!
One of the parameters to generate the image is a hash – I pass a different one into it based on the current date, so will change daily.
Do you support this plugin on forks of WordPress?
No. It was developed for WordPress and so forks remain unsupported. I have no intention of developing and testing this on any other version.
How do you uninstall the plugin and what does it do?
When you uninstall the plugin via the Plugins menu in WP Admin, all saved settings will be deleted along with the plugin files, leaving no residual data behind.
How can I contribute, report issues, or request features?
You can use the plugin forum on WordPress.org for support queries. To contribute to the code, suggest enhancements or report bugs you can do so on my Github repo.
Changelog
Fixed an image display bug whilst also massively overhauling the code layout
I use semantic versioning, with the first release being 1.0.
2.2
- Maintenance: A big jump in version numbers, but little to see. A lot of the code has changed, though, hence the release number. Basically, all the code was in one file and it was getting big and cumbersome, so it’s been split.
- Enhancement: I took the opportunity to replace some of the code with some that I’m using across all my plugins – a shared resource, which will be kept in-step
- Bug: Fixed a bug that would prevent the dashboard image from displaying
- Bug: Also fixed some a bit more minor, but could throw up the occasional PHP error
2.1.3
- Enhancement: After updating PHPCS and the sniffs, I’ve made some further code improvements. Nothing major, don’t panic.
2.1.2
- Maintenance: Nice try W3Techs. You changed the URL and threw in a change of format to try and fox my plugin. Well, I’m onto you. Consider this my explosive reply! In other words, it stopped working – this fixed it.
2.1.1
- Bug: Some of the setting screen output wasn’t being sent for translation. That’s now fixed. Thanks to Alex Lion for highlighting this.
2.1
- Enhancement: We’re now integrating the excellent wp-somethingty-percent, which uses Canvas / GD to generate a graphic representation of the WordPress market share
2.0.4
- Bug: Squashed a pesky bug that meant I wasn’t initially defining a variable. Thanks to
emrikolfor pointing this out. - Bug: I added some new plugin meta in 2.0.2 and it appears it wasn’t working. How did I miss that? Please don’t tell me…
- Enhancement: If the plugin fails to get the new stats rather than keep using the old one ad-infinitum (and potentially serving up wrong information), after a few days you’ll get an error message.
- Enhancement: I tried to make this plugin as robust as possible, but maybe a little too so. If new data can’t be retrieved for the market rate, it keeps using the existing, cached, data. Which is great until it goes on for too long. Now, after a week of failure, you’ll get an error
- Enhancement: Improved date handling to make you feel better. After all, time is a great healer.
- Maintenance: Detection of WooCommerce. Doesn’t do much now but is for a future update. Added it now for, I dunno know, I felt like it :shrug:
- Maintenance: Moved some code around to prepare it for some future updates. Think ahead folks!
Screenshots
For developers
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FAQ
World Domination: quick answers
Straight answers, pulled from live WordPress.org data.
Live data from WordPress.org · checked Oct 9, 2026
Is World Domination free?
Yes. World Domination is free to download and use from the official WordPress.org plugin directory.
Is World Domination safe to use in 2026?
World Domination is a solid plugin choice in 2026, with a few things worth checking first. It runs on 10+ sites, is rated 5/5 and was last updated 2 months ago, and scores 69/100 on our health check.
How many websites use World Domination?
World Domination is active on 10+ WordPress websites and has been downloaded 3,449 times since it launched in May 2017. It was downloaded 70 times in the last 30 days.
Does World Domination work with WordPress 7.1?
Yes. The developer has tested World Domination up to WordPress 7.1.3, the latest release. It requires WordPress 4.6 or newer.
What PHP version does World Domination need?
World Domination requires PHP 7.4 or higher. Most hosts run PHP 8.x today, so it works on any modern WordPress hosting.
When was World Domination last updated?
The latest version, 2.2, was released on August 20, 2026 (2 months ago).
Who makes World Domination?
World Domination is developed and maintained by David Artiss.
What are the best alternatives to World Domination?
The most popular alternatives to World Domination are White Label CMS (200K+ installs), List category posts (80K+ installs) and Cornerstone (20K+ installs).
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