On the 12th September 2021 there were 58,917 plugins in the wordpress.org plugin repository.
- 200 more than in July.
- Akismet has overtaken WordFence again – up one to position 3.
- Total downloads for WordPress SEO has exceeded 350 million.
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Top 12 – 21st July 2021
On the 21st July 2021 there were 58,701 plugins in the wordpress.org plugin repository.
- 17 fewer than in June.
- The Top 12 by total downloads was the same as for June.
- Total downloads for Akismet had exceeded 200 million.
- 4 plugins require WordPress 5.8
- Over 2.5 thousand plugins have been tested with WordPress 5.8
Top 12 – 19th May 2021
Here’s the latest extract of plugins for 19th May 2021.
- Wordfence has just moved into 3rd place, dropping Akismet to 4th.
- There have been no other movements in the top 12 chart.
- 103 plugins added this month
- 63 plugins reckon they’ve been tested with WordPress 5.8
Top 12 – 21st April 2021
Here’s the latest extract of plugins for 21st April 2021.
- There have been no movements in this month’s top 12 chart.
- 217 plugins added this month.
- 7,800 plugins have been tested with WordPress 5.7
- 39 say they’ve been tested with WordPress 5.8. Not a good idea, as WordPress won’t update these plugins if they’re changed.
- The star rating of 2 of 5 is the least popular rating, given to only 2% of all plugins that have been rated.
Top 12 – 31st March 2021
Here’s the latest extract of plugins for 31st March 2021.
- 138 plugins have been added in the last two weeks; approximately 10 a day.
- Elementor has reached 100 million downloads.
Top 12 – 17th 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…
- Really Simple SSL has come in at number 11. Up 3 from 14.
- Pushing All in one WP Migration off the chart.
- Elementor’s fast approaching 100 million total downloads.
- Four and a half thousand plugins have been tested with WordPress 5.7, released on 9th March.
Top 12 – 17th February 2021
On the 17th February 2021 there were 58,534 plugins on wordpress.org.
There’s been one change in the top 12 chart. All-in-one-wp-migration has pushed OptinMonster off 12th place, which has dropped to 14th, below Really Simple SSL.
Yoast SEO – 300 million downloads
The total downloads of Yoast SEO ( aka WordPress SEO ) just exceeded 300 million. That’s over 70 million dowloads in the last 12 months.
- 70 million downloads in a year is an enormous figure.
- Only 10 plugins have achieved 70 million in total.
- Yoast SEO’s average downloads a month is 5.8 million.
- Only 111 plugins of 58,434 have achieved that figure in their lifetime .
- Per day that’s just over 190 thousand.
- 1885 plugins have achieved this total in their lifetime.
- 95% of all plugins haven’t reached this figure.
Here’s last year.
It’s pretty amazing really. Here are the last few days. Note the big spike today – version 15.8 was released 11 hours ago. Downloads so far today are 1.2 million.
Five billion plugin downloads!
A short while ago, the total number of plugin downloads from wordpress.org exceeded 5 BILLION.
Herb Miller – reporting on output from wp-top12 – 24th January 2021
Since mid October 2019, I’ve been extracting information from wordpress.org in order to find the top 12 most downloaded plugins.
The figure’s been approaching 5 billion a few days now. In my most recent extract the total download for 58,370 plugins was 5,000,078,534.
Here’s a chart of the history.
Total plugin downloads history
Top 12 plugins – 19 Jan 2021
These are the figures from an extract taken at 16:00 UTC.
Total downloads: 4,980,726,935
Plugins: 58289
Top 12 plugins – total downloads and active
| Position | Plugin | Total downloads |
|---|---|---|
| 12 | optinmonster | 45,146,145 |
| 11 | updraftplus | 47,134,023 |
| 10 | wpforms-lite | 60,351,302 |
| 9 | all-in-one-seo-pack | 73,982,368 |
| 8 | google-analytics-for-wordpress | 82,810,131 |
| 7 | elementor | 89,062,332 |
| 6 | woocommerce | 122,340,376 |
| 5 | contact-form-7 | 169,969,494 |
| 4 | wordfence | 184,365,313 |
| 3 | akismet | 185,838,739 |
| 2 | jetpack | 212,202,184 |
| 1 | wordpress-seo | 295,628,888 |