The Top 30 WordPress plugins are summarised in tabular form. The list of 30 plugins was created in the middle of August 2012, but the figures you see are the most recent figures.
| Plugin name and description | Plugin links | Version, total downloads, last update, tested |
|---|---|---|
| All in One SEO – Best WordPress SEO Plugin – Easily Improve SEO Rankings & Increase Traffic The original WordPress SEO plugin. Improve your WordPress SEO rankings and traffic with our comprehensive SEO tools and smart SEO optimizations. |
all-in-one-seo-pack home |
4.2.2 99,744,741 21st June 2022 6.0 |
| Akismet Spam Protection The best anti-spam protection to block spam comments and spam in a contact form. The most trusted antispam solution for WordPress and WooCommerce. |
akismet home |
4.2.4 244,898,180 20th May 2022 6.0 |
| XML Sitemaps This plugin will improve SEO by helping search enginess better index your site using sitemaps. |
google-sitemap-generator home |
4.1.5 30,808,962 16th June 2022 6.0 |
| Contact Form 7 Just another contact form plugin. Simple but flexible. |
contact-form-7 home |
5.6 225,684,097 17th June 2022 6.0 |
| WordPress Gallery Plugin – NextGEN Gallery The most popular WordPress gallery plugin and one of the most popular plugins of all time with over 31 million downloads. |
nextgen-gallery home |
3.26 35,615,475 27th April 2022 5.9.3 |
| WP Super Cache A very fast caching engine for WordPress that produces static html files. |
wp-super-cache home |
1.7.9 41,590,687 7th June 2022 6.0 |
| MonsterInsights – Google Analytics Dashboard for WordPress (Website Stats Made Easy) The best free Google Analytics plugin for WordPress. See how visitors find and use your website, so you can grow your business. |
google-analytics-for-wordpress home |
8.6.0 123,800,680 13th June 2022 6.0 |
| WordPress Importer Import posts, pages, comments, custom fields, categories, tags and more from a WordPress export file. |
wordpress-importer home |
0.7 39,389,272 4th April 2020 5.4.10 |
| si-contact-form | No info available | |
| WP-PageNavi Adds a more advanced paging navigation interface. |
wp-pagenavi home |
2.94.0 11,523,114 5th February 2022 5.9.3 |
| Jetpack – WP Security, Backup, Speed, & Growth Improve your WP security with powerful one-click tools like backup and malware scan. Get essential free tools including stats, CDN and social sharing. |
jetpack home |
11.0 278,524,955 7th June 2022 6.0 |
| WP eCommerce WP eCommerce is a free, powerful plugin that empowers you to sell anything online, quickly and easily. |
wp-e-commerce home |
3.15.1 3,600,342 21st August 2020 5.5.9 |
| Yoast SEO Improve your WordPress SEO: Write better content and have a fully optimized WordPress site using the Yoast SEO plugin. |
wordpress-seo home |
19.2 441,877,392 28th June 2022 6.0 |
| sociable | No info available | |
| Advanced Editor Tools (previously TinyMCE Advanced) Extends and enhances the block editor (Gutenberg) and the classic editor (TinyMCE). |
tinymce-advanced home |
5.6.0 30,155,604 3rd April 2021 5.7.6 |
| W3 Total Cache Search Engine (SEO) & Performance Optimization (WPO) via caching. Integrated caching: CDN, Page, Minify, Object,… |
w3-total-cache home |
2.2.3 35,278,908 29th June 2022 6.0 |
| BuddyPress BuddyPress helps site builders & developers add community features to their websites, with user profiles,… |
buddypress home |
10.3.0 11,130,637 19th May 2022 6.0 |
| gtrans | No info available | |
| vipers-video-quicktags | No info available | |
| WP to Twitter Posts a Twitter update when you update your WordPress blog or add a link, with your chosen URL shortening service. |
wp-to-twitter home |
3.6.1 3,755,751 23rd June 2022 6.0 |
| SEO Ultimate This all-in-one SEO plugin gives you control over meta titles & descriptions, open graph, auto-linking, rich-snippets, 404 monitoring, siloing &am … |
seo-ultimate home |
7.6.5.9 2,319,617 3rd November 2016 4.6.23 |
| SEO Smart Links SEO Smart Links provides automatic SEO benefits for your site in addition to custom keyword lists, nofollow and much more. |
seo-automatic-links home |
3.0.1 1,111,656 25th December 2014 4.1.35 |
| Ultimate TinyMCE Description: Beef up the WordPress TinyMCE content editor with a plethora of advanced options. |
ultimate-tinymce home |
5.7 2,820,437 10th December 2014 3.7.38 |
| WPtouch Make your WordPress website mobile-friendly with just a few clicks. |
wptouch home |
4.3.41 13,484,090 5th May 2021 5.5.9 |
| Advanced Custom Fields Customize WordPress with powerful, professional and intuitive fields. Proudly powering over 2 million websites, Advanced Custom Fields is the plugin W … |
advanced-custom-fields home |
5.12.2 28,759,978 7th June 2022 6.0 |
| BackWPup – WordPress Backup Plugin Schedule complete automatic backups of your WordPress installation. Decide which content will be stored (Dropbox, S3…). This is the free version |
backwpup home |
3.10.0 11,963,443 8th April 2022 5.8.4 |
| BulletProof Security WordPress Security Protection: Malware scanner, Firewall, Login Security, DB Backup, Anti-Spam… |
bulletproof-security home |
6.4 3,992,792 18th June 2022 6.0 |
| WooCommerce WooCommerce is the world’s most popular open-source eCommerce solution. |
woocommerce home |
6.6.1 195,126,980 21st June 2022 6.0 |
| ManageWP Worker A better way to manage dozens of WordPress websites. |
worker home |
4.9.14 16,000,907 9th June 2022 6.0 |
| spam-free-wordpress | No info available |
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