I’m in the process of consolidating multiple WordPress Multi Site networks into a single network and letting a number of domains expire.
Today, 22 December 2016, according to WordPress.org there are 48,166 plugins on WordPress.org.
Total downloads: 1,506,575,759.
That’s an increase of over 6,000 plugins (was 42,001), and nearly 400 million downloads (was 1,126,080,405), in one year. Continue reading
When PHP was upgraded to version 5.4.45 on the 17th Feb the wp-top-10-plugins.com site took a dive.
It’s just resurfaced again today.
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Today, 22 December 2015, according to WordPress.org there are 42,001 plugins on WordPress.org.
Total downloads: 1,126,080,405. Continue reading
It’s been a while since I produced a list of the top 10 WordPress plugins.
Recently, I completed a first pass analysis of the 41,795 plugins on wordpress.org as of 12th December 2015.
The total downloads was a staggering: 1,038,708,495
There are 11 plugins with over 10 million downloads.
| Plugin | Total downloads |
|---|---|
| akismet | 41144701 |
| contact-form-7 | 32979109 |
| all-in-one-seo-pack | 25140527 |
| wordpress-seo | 23653001 |
| jetpack | 20548004 |
| google-sitemap-generator | 17736042 |
| nextgen-gallery | 13841732 |
| wordpress-importer | 12043431 |
| woocommerce | 11347209 |
| wordfence | 10471852 |
| google-analytics-for-wordpress | 10405465 |
The top 138 plugins, with over 1 million downloads each, account for 47% of the total downloads.
| Total downloads | # plugins |
|---|---|
| 1->10 | 185 |
| 10->100 | 2381 |
| 100->1000 | 15218 |
| 1000->10000 | 16857 |
| 10000->100000 | 5908 |
| 100000->1000000 | 1108 |
| 1000000->10000000 | 127 |
| 10000000->100000000 | 11 |
Summary of when the plugin was last updated.
| Year | Plugins updated |
|---|---|
| 2015 | 15894 |
| 2014 | 6665 |
| 2013 | 4477 |
| 2012 | 3955 |
| 2011 | 3327 |
| 2010 | 3177 |
| 2009 | 2392 |
| 2008 | 1266 |
| 2007 | 430 |
| 2006 | 61 |
| 2005 | 143 |
| 2004 | 7 |
Versions of WordPress – minimum required versions and tested up to.
| WordPress version | Requires | Tested |
|---|---|---|
| 4.5 | 62 | 0 |
| 4.4 | 2592 | 22 |
| 4.3 | 5922 | 295 |
| 4.2 | 3639 | 338 |
| 4.1 | 2793 | 438 |
| 4.0 | 2459 | 1627 |
| 3.0 to 3.9 | 15205 | 13166 |
| 0.70 to 2.9 | 7424 | 23790 |
| Other | 1626 | 2080 |
| Other+ | 67 | 45 |
Plugin ratings.
| Stars | Count |
|---|---|
| 5 | 12555 |
| 4 | 3780 |
| 3 | 1834 |
| 2 | 533 |
| 1 | 989 |
| Unrated | 22104 |
| Number | Factoid |
|---|---|
| 1690 | Different ways of indicating which version of WordPress is required. |
| 1 | Plugin was last updated in 1969. This shows as 1 min ago on wordpress.org/plugins/wp-notifications. sneaky? |
| 441 | Plugins with login in their name |
| 2500 | Plugins with widget in their name |
| 10% | Percentage of plugins using “wp” in their name |
Since I started the analysis the total displayed on
wordpress.org/plugins reached: 1,115,557,720… 41,798 plugins on the 13th December.
Today (20th December). it’s 41,977 plugins with 1,124,309,632 downloads.
Not quite sure where the extra 80 million comes from.
Perhaps there are two clones Akismet!
An infographic suggestion from blueberrylabs.com Continue reading
The WP Plugins website – refreshed daily it says – has a Top Downloads page where it shows plugins ordered by downloads per week. It also has a Trending page! Continue reading
See Reem Mohammed Al-Ashry’s slideshow for the view from Egypt 4 years ago.
Dave Lighthart recently produced a summary of the Top 1000 WordPress Authors and Plugins.
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Just a week after Top 10 WordPress plugins Christmas Eve (2012) here’s the latest news, based on the average number of downloads per day, since August 2012.