Today, 22 December 2015, according to WordPress.org there are 42,001 plugins on WordPress.org.
Total downloads: 1,126,080,405.
The top 12 plugins are:
| Plugin | Downloads |
|---|---|
| akismet | 41870866 |
| contact-form-7 | 33264457 |
| all-in-one-seo-pack | 25340154 |
| wordpress-seo | 23888967 |
| jetpack | 20854957 |
| google-sitemap-generator | 17770697 |
| nextgen-gallery | 13895137 |
| wordpress-importer | 12126051 |
| woocommerce | 11542164 |
| wordfence | 10655259 |
| google-analytics-for-wordpress | 10436289 |
| wp-super-cache | 9031498 |
Note: There is still a discrepancy between the figures shown on wordpress.org and my figures which were obtained by downloading information using the wordpress.org API.
- Plugins: 41,992 versus 42,001
- Total downloads: 1,048,261,884 versus 1,126,080,405.