The top 12 WordPress plugins by total downloads for 23rd September 2023 follows:

• The total downloads from wordpress.org now exceeds 9 billion
• Akismet will soon join 4 other plugins with over 300 million total downloads.
• No change in the top 12 order
• Nearly a quarter of all plugins have been updated this year.
• Over 6 and a half thousand have been tested with WordPress 6.3
• 37 more plugins than last month