Contact Form 7 is a very popular contact form plugin. Let’s have a look at the plugin extensions you might want to use with it.
(more…)Month: November 2019
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Top 20 most popular – September 2019
The WordPress 2019 Annual Survey listed the top 20 most popular plugins in September 2019. Here’s their position in the most downloaded table.
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Where are they now?
These 5 plugins used to be in the top 12: WordPress Importer, W3 Total Cache, NextGEN Gallery, WP-PageNavi and Google XML Sitemaps.
So where are they now?
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Debug / development
For WordPress Birmingham Kirsty Burgoigne asked which plugins people use during development.
The top 4 recommended by UK slack members match the top 4 in the table below. I use oik-bwtrace. It’s not popular but it works everywhere: front-end, admin, AJAX, REST and in batch ( WP-CLI).
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Top 12 WordPress plugins – November 2019
Today, 5 November 2019, according to WordPress.org there are 54,497 plugins on WordPress.org.
That’s a decrease of over 400 plugins (was 54,927) in less than a month.
TOTAL DOWNLOADS: 3,550,985,988
was 3,492,183,046 in October 2019
In terms of Total Downloads, the top 12 plugins table, with a new column added for 2019, is:
Position move plugin 2015 2016 2019 1 up 2 wordpress-seo 23888967 37219578 203 million 2 down 1 akismet 41870866 54086058 146 million 3 up 2 jetpack 20854957 30883469 146 million 4 up 2 wordfence 10655259 22199987 136 million 5 down 3 contact-form-7 33264457 45014223 122 million 6 up 1 woocommerce 11542164 18968270 78 million 7 down 3 all-in-one-seo-pack 25340154 31222282 62 million 8 up 3 google-analytics-for-wordpress 10436289 12697215 56 million 9 new entry elementor ? ? 38 million 10 new entry wpforms-lite ? ? 33 million 11 up 1 wp-super-cache 9031498 11313369 31 million 12 new entry updraftplus ? ? 30 million - WordPress SEO was the first plugin to reach over 200 million downloads, on October 17th, 2019.
- Akismet was knocked into third place by Jetpack for a while.
- Wordfence is rising fast.
- Contact Form 7, is the last of the 5 plugins with over 100 million downloads.
- There are 3 new entries: elementor, wpforms-lite and updraftplus.
- nextgen-gallery, wordpress-importer and google-sitemap-generator have fallen out of the top 12.
GROUPED BY TOTAL DOWNLOADS
Total downloads 2015 2016 2019 1->10 167 137 16 10->100 2405 1815 1391 100->1000 15307 18017 19934 1000->10000 16919 19826 22705 10000->100000 5938 6799 8022 100000->1000000 1118 1379 2026 1000000->10000000 127 180 360 10000000->100000000 11 12 38 100000000->-1000000000 5 The top 1,000 plugins have all achieved at least one third of a million downloads. They account for over 80% of the total downloads.
The top 400 plugins, with over 1 million downloads each, account for 73% of the total downloads.
MOST RECENT UPDATES
Summary of when the plugin was last updated.
Last updated 2015 2016 2019 2019 16699 2018 6206 2017 4974 2016 16996 5285 2015 16149 7292 4665 2014 6602 5429 4006 2013 4462 4092 3039 2012 3955 3773 2935 2011 3325 3235 2388 2010 3174 3121 1905 2009 2392 2349 1402 2008 1265 1247 663 2007 430 420 227 2006 61 61 33 2005 143 143 64 2004 7 7 6 WORDPRESS VERSION COMPATIBILITY
Versions of WordPress – minimum required versions and tested up to.
Version Requires 2015 Requires 2016 Tested 2015 Tested 2016 4.8 2 32 4.7 38 2 4477 4.6 226 3 5115 4.5 72 3753 4.4 57 726 3755 2962 4.3 306 552 5186 2246 4.2 342 540 3504 2334 4.1 445 675 2749 2070 4.0 1668 3069 2430 1945 3.0 to 3.9 13205 1438 15167 14131 0.70 to 2.9 23848 25222 7426 7323 Other+ 40 41 68 95 Other 2081 2269 1628 1682 STAR RATINGS
Stars 2015 2016 2019 5 12626 15275 14834 4 3810 4702 5108 3 1828 2184 2085 2 538 610 480 1 988 1119 714 0 22182 24275 14411 OTHER INTERESTING FACTS?
Number Factoid 591 Plugins using the keyword block 413 Plugins with SEO in their name 2500 Plugins with widget in their name 10% Percentage of plugins using “wp” in their name CAVEATS
- The latest 2019 figures were determined for 54497 plugins.
- The REST API doesn’t provide the same level of information as the published API.