Here’s the report for the Top 12 WordPress plugins by total downloads as of the 15th November 2021.
Plugins: 59425
Here’s a list of some of the plugins that were talked about at the meetup.
Chris Cox told us about Enable Media Replace, Simon Bragg talked about HTTP headers, then there was TablePress, and Internal Links Manager.
Also mentioned were plugins to eliminate unwanted JavaScript and CSS – Hummingbird.
Elliot Richmond told us about his WooCommerce checkout extension used to help couriers locate premises for local deliveries.
I, Herb Miller, mentioned a couple of plugins in “My Favourite Plugin”
Michael Noder included a link to a video about CloudFlare and a plugin called WP Auto Terms.
Total plugins: 59330
| Position | Plugin | Total downloads | Active | Star Rating | Tested up to |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 | SiteGround Optimizer | 32196163 | 1000000 | 4.4 | 5.8.1 |
| 43 | Rank Math SEO | 22139641 | 1000000 | 4.9 | 5.8.1 |
| 109 | TablePress | 7627976 | 800000 | 5 | 5.8.1 |
| 131 | Enable Media Replace | 5903933 | 500000 | 4.5 | 5.8.1 |
| 305 | Hummingbird | 2273830 | 100000 | 4.8 | 5.8.1 |
| 498 | WebP Express | 1258026 | 100000 | 4.5 | 5.8.1 |
| 1450 | HTTP Headers | 313711 | 30000 | 4.6 | 5.7.3 |
| 3650 | Internal Links Manager | 75196 | 8000 | 4.8 | 5.8.1 |
| 8889 | Advanced Custom Fields: TablePress | 17516 | 1000 | 4.8 | 4.5.24 |
| 11145 | TablePress Extension: Chartist | 11674 | 1000 | 5 | 4.9.18 |
| 24706 | “SEO-HEADERS-Easy” Protocol HTTP 1.1 | 2560 | 300 | 4.7 | 4.4.25 |
| 31367 | inDiv for TablePress | 1551 | 300 | 0 | 5.6.5 |
| 36022 | Eazy HTTP Headers | 1130 | 40 | 0 | 4..9.1 |
| 45363 | WebP Express Plus | 632 | 100 | 5 | 5.7.3 |
| 47388 | Secure HTTP Headers | 549 | 100 | 3 | 5.7.3 |
| 51596 | WP Secure HTTP Headers | 390 | 60 | 0 | 5.2.12 |
| 51944 | WP Hummingbird Purger | 377 | 10 | 0 | |
| 59219 | WP Activity Log Extension for TablePress | 26 | 0 | 0 | 5.8.1 |
| 18 | TOTALS | 71824881 |
Here’s the report for the Top 12 WordPress plugins by total downloads as of the 7th November 2021.
Plugins: 59330
| Position | Plugin | Total downloads |
|---|---|---|
| 12 | all-in-one-wp-migration | 63,146,457 |
| 11 | really-simple-ssl | 75,537,100 |
| 10 | wpforms-lite | 85,358,027 |
| 9 | all-in-one-seo-pack | 86,295,952 |
| 8 | google-analytics-for-wordpress | 103,475,285 |
| 7 | elementor | 139,784,516 |
| 6 | woocommerce | 158,989,882 |
| 5 | contact-form-7 | 197,274,530 |
| 4 | wordfence | 216,749,457 |
| 3 | akismet | 222,415,845 |
| 2 | jetpack | 252,716,455 |
| 1 | wordpress-seo | 371,216,852 |
Here’s the report for the Top 12 WordPress plugins by total downloads as of the 19th October 2021.
The total number of downloads from WordPress dot org recently exceeded 6 billion. That’s over 1 billion downloads in just under 10 months. Or 268 days since Five billion plugin downloads! Approximately 3.7 million downloads a day.
In that time the total number of plugins has also increased.
On the 12th September 2021 there were 58,917 plugins in the wordpress.org plugin repository.
On the 21st July 2021 there were 58,701 plugins in the wordpress.org plugin repository.
Here’s the latest extract of plugins for 19th May 2021.
Here’s the latest extract of plugins for 21st April 2021.
Here’s the latest extract of plugins for 31st March 2021.
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…