The top 12 WordPress plugins by total downloads for 19th April 2022 follows.
- Wordfence has moved up to 3rd position, Akismet is now 4th
- WP Forms Lite is approaching 100 million total downloads.
- 15% of the plugins updated this year haven’t been tested with WordPress 5.9
- 76 plugins already report they’ve been tested with WordPress 6.0… due for release on 24th of May.
Total downloads: 6,747,738,441
Plugins: 59856
Top 12 plugins – total downloads and active
| Position | Plugin | Total downloads |
|---|---|---|
| 12 | updraftplus | 77,052,339 |
| 11 | really-simple-ssl | 88,016,547 |
| 10 | all-in-one-seo-pack | 96,528,785 |
| 9 | wpforms-lite | 99,601,417 |
| 8 | google-analytics-for-wordpress | 116,734,365 |
| 7 | elementor | 178,072,083 |
| 6 | woocommerce | 186,374,052 |
| 5 | contact-form-7 | 217,060,339 |
| 4 | akismet | 232,551,472 |
| 3 | wordfence | 234,827,204 |
| 2 | jetpack | 270,156,881 |
| 1 | wordpress-seo | 416,362,178 |