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…
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.
The total downloads of Yoast SEO ( aka WordPress SEO ) just exceeded 300 million. That’s over 70 million dowloads in the last 12 months.
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.
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.
These are the figures from an extract taken at 16:00 UTC.
Plugins: 58289
| 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 |
These are the figures for the extract taken at 11 am (UTC) on the 19th January.
Plugins: 58281
| Position | Plugin | Total downloads |
|---|---|---|
| 12 | optinmonster | 45,143,902 |
| 11 | updraftplus | 47,126,147 |
| 10 | wpforms-lite | 60,343,023 |
| 9 | all-in-one-seo-pack | 73,977,940 |
| 8 | google-analytics-for-wordpress | 82,805,055 |
| 7 | elementor | 89,041,217 |
| 6 | woocommerce | 122,318,210 |
| 5 | contact-form-7 | 169,948,640 |
| 4 | wordfence | 184,355,526 |
| 3 | akismet | 185,806,071 |
| 2 | jetpack | 212,186,642 |
| 1 | wordpress-seo | 295,594,401 |