Reply To: Weird traffic drop after plugin update?

Personally, Yeah, I’d still put money on the plugin side before “Google did a thing.” That pattern — a few pages drop, random posts pick up weird clicks — usually means something changed in what’s being served or discovered, not some clean sitewide ranking collapse. I’ve seen it from cache/CDN leftovers, canonical weirdness, sitemap output getting mangled, even a plugin quietly noindexing stuff like an idiot. If you updated more than one plugin, though……