Here’s the latest extract of plugins for 31st March 2021.
- 138 plugins have been added in the last two weeks; approximately 10 a day.
- Elementor has reached 100 million downloads.
Top 12 – 17th March 2021
On the 17th March 2021 there were 58,524 plugins on wordpress.org but the WordPress plugins page only reported 58,055.
Some changes in the top 12 chart…
- Really Simple SSL has come in at number 11. Up 3 from 14.
- Pushing All in one WP Migration off the chart.
- Elementor’s fast approaching 100 million total downloads.
- Four and a half thousand plugins have been tested with WordPress 5.7, released on 9th March.
Top 12 – 17th February 2021
On the 17th February 2021 there were 58,534 plugins on wordpress.org.
There’s been one change in the top 12 chart. All-in-one-wp-migration has pushed OptinMonster off 12th place, which has dropped to 14th, below Really Simple SSL.
Yoast SEO – 300 million downloads
The total downloads of Yoast SEO ( aka WordPress SEO ) just exceeded 300 million. That’s over 70 million dowloads in the last 12 months.
- 70 million downloads in a year is an enormous figure.
- Only 10 plugins have achieved 70 million in total.
- Yoast SEO’s average downloads a month is 5.8 million.
- Only 111 plugins of 58,434 have achieved that figure in their lifetime .
- Per day that’s just over 190 thousand.
- 1885 plugins have achieved this total in their lifetime.
- 95% of all plugins haven’t reached this figure.
Here’s last year.
It’s pretty amazing really. Here are the last few days. Note the big spike today – version 15.8 was released 11 hours ago. Downloads so far today are 1.2 million.
Five billion plugin downloads!
A short while ago, the total number of plugin downloads from wordpress.org exceeded 5 BILLION.
Herb Miller – reporting on output from wp-top12 – 24th January 2021
Since mid October 2019, I’ve been extracting information from wordpress.org in order to find the top 12 most downloaded plugins.
The figure’s been approaching 5 billion a few days now. In my most recent extract the total download for 58,370 plugins was 5,000,078,534.
Here’s a chart of the history.
Total plugin downloads history
Top 12 plugins – 19 Jan 2021
These are the figures from an extract taken at 16:00 UTC.
Total downloads: 4,980,726,935
Plugins: 58289
Top 12 plugins – total downloads and active
| Position | Plugin | Total downloads |
|---|---|---|
| 12 | optinmonster | 45,146,145 |
| 11 | updraftplus | 47,134,023 |
| 10 | wpforms-lite | 60,351,302 |
| 9 | all-in-one-seo-pack | 73,982,368 |
| 8 | google-analytics-for-wordpress | 82,810,131 |
| 7 | elementor | 89,062,332 |
| 6 | woocommerce | 122,340,376 |
| 5 | contact-form-7 | 169,969,494 |
| 4 | wordfence | 184,365,313 |
| 3 | akismet | 185,838,739 |
| 2 | jetpack | 212,202,184 |
| 1 | wordpress-seo | 295,628,888 |
Grouped by total downloads
Last updated
WordPress version compatibility
Star ratings
Top 12 plugins – 19 Jan 2021
These are the figures for the extract taken at 11 am (UTC) on the 19th January.
Total downloads: 4,979,794,242
Plugins: 58281
Top 12 plugins – total downloads and active
| Position | Plugin | Total downloads |
|---|---|---|
| 12 | optinmonster | 45,143,902 |
| 11 | updraftplus | 47,126,147 |
| 10 | wpforms-lite | 60,343,023 |
| 9 | all-in-one-seo-pack | 73,977,940 |
| 8 | google-analytics-for-wordpress | 82,805,055 |
| 7 | elementor | 89,041,217 |
| 6 | woocommerce | 122,318,210 |
| 5 | contact-form-7 | 169,948,640 |
| 4 | wordfence | 184,355,526 |
| 3 | akismet | 185,806,071 |
| 2 | jetpack | 212,186,642 |
| 1 | wordpress-seo | 295,594,401 |
Grouped by total downloads
Last updated
WordPress version compatibility
Star ratings
SB Chart block
I’m just testing my brand new SB Chart block plugin. It diplays charts: Line, Bar, Horizontal bar and Pie. I’m going to use it in my monthly top 12 plugins report.
Top 12 Charts – January 2021
Total downloads: 4,979,794,242
Plugins: 58281
Top 12 plugins – total downloads and active
| Position | Plugin | Total downloads |
|---|---|---|
| 12 | optinmonster | 45,143,902 |
| 11 | updraftplus | 47,126,147 |
| 10 | wpforms-lite | 60,343,023 |
| 9 | all-in-one-seo-pack | 73,977,940 |
| 8 | google-analytics-for-wordpress | 82,805,055 |
| 7 | elementor | 89,041,217 |
| 6 | woocommerce | 122,318,210 |
| 5 | contact-form-7 | 169,948,640 |
| 4 | wordfence | 184,355,526 |
| 3 | akismet | 185,806,071 |
| 2 | jetpack | 212,186,642 |
| 1 | wordpress-seo | 295,594,401 |
Grouped by total downloads
| 1->10 | 15 |
|---|---|
| 10->100 | 1481 |
| 100->1000 | 20122 |
| 1000->10000 | 24946 |
| 10000->100000 | 8879 |
| 100000->1000000 | 2293 |
| 1000000->10000000 | 474 |
| 10000000->100000000 | 65 |
| 100000000->1000000000 | 6 |
Last updated
WordPress version compatibility
| Version | Requires | Tested |
|---|---|---|
| 0.70 to 2.9 | 20218 | 4402 |
| 3.0 to 3.9 | 12988 | 9900 |
| 4.0 to 4.9 | 18107 | 17530 |
| 5.0 | 2178 | 1397 |
| 5.1 | 424 | 1089 |
| 5.2 | 718 | 2985 |
| 5.3 | 468 | 2664 |
| 5.4 | 242 | 3820 |
| 5.5 | 221 | 6031 |
| 5.6 | 48 | 6884 |
| Other | 2667 | 1500 |
| Other+ | 2 | 22 |
| 5.7 | 0 | 56 |
| 5.8 | 0 | 1 |
Star ratings
| 5 | 20006 |
|---|---|
| 4 | 6074 |
| 3 | 2520 |
| 2 | 673 |
| 1 | 1093 |
| 0 | 27915 |
Top 12 – 16th December 2020
On the 16th of December 2020 there were 58,121 plugins on wordpress.org. Or 57,993… depending on where you looked.
- Akismet and Wordfence have swapped positions again. With Wordfence up to 3rd.
- And Updraft Plus has overtaken OptinMonster in 11th place.
- Six plugins have achieved more than 100 million downloads.
- Fewer than 6% of the plugins have been tested with WordPress 5.6.
- Just over a quarter have been tested with this year’s WordPress releases: 5.4, 5.5 & 5.6.
Some trivia
- 69 plugins have been downloaded more than 10 million times.
- The twenty most popular words used in plugin names are: wp, for, woocommerce, widget, post, wordpress, simple, custom, plugin, and, by, to, posts, image, form, easy, page, social google and admin. Used between 5000 and 750 times.
quizappears 51 times on its own and 24 times as part of other words. eg quizzes – 5 and quizz – 3 times.- For some reason, in today’s extract, Google XML Sitemaps appears twice – in positions 21 and 22.