Top 10 WordPress plugins

WordUp Pompey! December 2019.   Originally developed August 2012

Month: January 2020

  • Top 12 – 30 Jan 2020

    On 30th January there were 55,481 plugins on wordpress.org. Again an increase of over 10 plugins per day since mid Jan.

    • Nearly 4,000 plugins have been updated so far in 2020.
    • Google Analytics for WordPress has moved up, swapping with All in one SEO pack.
    • One more plugin has reached 10 million downloads: all-in-one-wp-security-and-firewall, making 48 in total.
    • Two stars is the least popular rating for a plugin.
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  • Top 20 for Collapsing Archives

    At the WordPress Portsmouth Meetup – 15 Jan 2020 – some people were searching for a plugin to help improve the display of Archives / Categories when the list was very long.

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  • Top 20 Spam plugins

    In response to a question at the WordPress Portsmouth Meetup – Hands on Problem Solving clinic, here’s the top 20 plugins which include spam in their plugin name or short description.

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  • Top 12 – 15 Jan 2020

    Top 12 – 15 Jan 2020

    On 15th January 2020 there were 55,310 plugins when I started to perform the extract. 55,311 before it finished! An increase of over 10 plugins per day.

    Over 2000 plugins have been updated so far this year.

    There are no changes in the top 12.

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  • Top 12 – New Year’s Day 2020

    On 1st Jan 2020, there were 55,134 plugins on wordpress.org, when I performed my extract; an increase of 72 since the last week. Three plugins have now reached over 150 million downloads: Akismet, Jetpack and WordPress SEO. Five over 100 million.

    There are no changes in the top 12.

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