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
Total downloads: 9,214,494,908
Plugins: 59697
Top 12 plugins – total downloads and active
| Position | Plugin | Total downloads |
|---|---|---|
| 12 | all-in-one-wp-migration | 111,786,546 |
| 11 | all-in-one-seo-pack | 126,671,504 |
| 10 | really-simple-ssl | 132,488,178 |
| 9 | google-analytics-for-wordpress | 161,922,542 |
| 8 | wpforms-lite | 166,412,554 |
| 7 | woocommerce | 271,087,859 |
| 6 | contact-form-7 | 285,195,744 |
| 5 | akismet | 299,958,287 |
| 4 | wordfence | 306,263,344 |
| 3 | elementor | 331,626,807 |
| 2 | jetpack | 355,303,162 |
| 1 | wordpress-seo | 589,958,193 |