On the 17th March 2021 there were 58,524 plugins on wordpress.org but the WordPress plugins page only reported 58,055.
Some changes in the top 12 chart…
- Really Simple SSL has come in at number 11. Up 3 from 14.
- Pushing All in one WP Migration off the chart.
- Elementor’s fast approaching 100 million total downloads.
- Four and a half thousand plugins have been tested with WordPress 5.7, released on 9th March.
Total downloads: 5,212,902,746
Plugins: 58056
Top 12 plugins – total downloads and active
| Position | Plugin | Total downloads |
|---|---|---|
| 12 | updraftplus | 50,417,637 |
| 11 | really-simple-ssl | 50,585,126 |
| 10 | wpforms-lite | 63,858,344 |
| 9 | all-in-one-seo-pack | 75,530,584 |
| 8 | google-analytics-for-wordpress | 90,693,151 |
| 7 | elementor | 99,477,170 |
| 6 | woocommerce | 129,390,108 |
| 5 | contact-form-7 | 175,718,429 |
| 4 | wordfence | 186,212,031 |
| 3 | akismet | 193,695,262 |
| 2 | jetpack | 218,201,806 |
| 1 | wordpress-seo | 312,469,293 |