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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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5 20006
4 6074
3 2520
2 673
1 1093
0 27915