The top 12 WordPress plugins by total downloads for 19th February 2023 follows:
- Total plugin downloads now exceeds 8 billion.
- 291 new plugins since the last report.
- Akismet (down to 4th) and Wordfence (back up to 3rd) have swapped places.
- Elementor has joined the other 5 plugins with over a quarter of a billion total downloads.
- Really simple SSL has overtaken All In One SEO Pack.
Total downloads: 8,112,930,347
Plugins: 60404
Top 12 plugins – total downloads and active
| Position | Plugin | Total downloads |
|---|---|---|
| 12 | all-in-one-wp-migration | 95,049,793 |
| 11 | all-in-one-seo-pack | 110,707,735 |
| 10 | really-simple-ssl | 111,325,728 |
| 9 | wpforms-lite | 138,183,796 |
| 8 | google-analytics-for-wordpress | 143,641,065 |
| 7 | woocommerce | 232,023,064 |
| 6 | elementor | 254,461,969 |
| 5 | contact-form-7 | 259,320,007 |
| 4 | akismet | 275,243,439 |
| 3 | wordfence | 277,158,326 |
| 2 | jetpack | 318,492,182 |
| 1 | wordpress-seo | 514,402,032 |