Today, 5 November 2019, according to WordPress.org there are 54,497 plugins on WordPress.org.
That’s a decrease of over 400 plugins (was 54,927) in less than a month.
TOTAL DOWNLOADS: 3,550,985,988
was 3,492,183,046 in October 2019
In terms of Total Downloads, the top 12 plugins table, with a new column added for 2019, is:
Position |
move |
plugin |
2015 |
2016 |
2019 |
1 |
up 2 |
wordpress-seo |
23888967 |
37219578 |
203 million |
2 |
down 1 |
akismet |
41870866 |
54086058 |
146 million |
3 |
up 2 |
jetpack |
20854957 |
30883469 |
146 million |
4 |
up 2 |
wordfence |
10655259 |
22199987 |
136 million |
5 |
down 3 |
contact-form-7 |
33264457 |
45014223 |
122 million |
6 |
up 1 |
woocommerce |
11542164 |
18968270 |
78 million |
7 |
down 3 |
all-in-one-seo-pack |
25340154 |
31222282 |
62 million |
8 |
up 3 |
google-analytics-for-wordpress |
10436289 |
12697215 |
56 million |
9 |
new entry |
elementor |
? |
? |
38 million |
10 |
new entry |
wpforms-lite |
? |
? |
33 million |
11 |
up 1 |
wp-super-cache |
9031498 |
11313369 |
31 million |
12 |
new entry |
updraftplus |
? |
? |
30 million |
- WordPress SEO was the first plugin to reach over 200 million downloads, on October 17th, 2019.
- Akismet was knocked into third place by Jetpack for a while.
- Wordfence is rising fast.
- Contact Form 7, is the last of the 5 plugins with over 100 million downloads.
- There are 3 new entries: elementor, wpforms-lite and updraftplus.
- nextgen-gallery, wordpress-importer and google-sitemap-generator have fallen out of the top 12.
GROUPED BY TOTAL DOWNLOADS
Total downloads |
2015 |
2016 |
2019 |
1->10 |
167 |
137 |
16 |
10->100 |
2405 |
1815 |
1391 |
100->1000 |
15307 |
18017 |
19934 |
1000->10000 |
16919 |
19826 |
22705 |
10000->100000 |
5938 |
6799 |
8022 |
100000->1000000 |
1118 |
1379 |
2026 |
1000000->10000000 |
127 |
180 |
360 |
10000000->100000000 |
11 |
12 |
38 |
100000000->-1000000000 |
|
|
5 |
The top 1,000 plugins have all achieved at least one third of a million downloads. They account for over 80% of the total downloads.
The top 400 plugins, with over 1 million downloads each, account for 73% of the total downloads.
MOST RECENT UPDATES
Summary of when the plugin was last updated.
Last updated |
2015 |
2016 |
2019 |
2019 |
|
|
16699 |
2018 |
|
|
6206 |
2017 |
|
|
4974 |
2016 |
|
16996 |
5285 |
2015 |
16149 |
7292 |
4665 |
2014 |
6602 |
5429 |
4006 |
2013 |
4462 |
4092 |
3039 |
2012 |
3955 |
3773 |
2935 |
2011 |
3325 |
3235 |
2388 |
2010 |
3174 |
3121 |
1905 |
2009 |
2392 |
2349 |
1402 |
2008 |
1265 |
1247 |
663 |
2007 |
430 |
420 |
227 |
2006 |
61 |
61 |
33 |
2005 |
143 |
143 |
64 |
2004 |
7 |
7 |
6 |
WORDPRESS VERSION COMPATIBILITY
Versions of WordPress – minimum required versions and tested up to.
Version |
Requires 2015 |
Requires 2016 |
Tested 2015 |
Tested 2016 |
4.8 |
|
|
2 |
32 |
4.7 |
|
38 |
2 |
4477 |
4.6 |
|
226 |
3 |
5115 |
4.5 |
72 |
3753 |
4.4 |
57 |
726 |
3755 |
2962 |
4.3 |
306 |
552 |
5186 |
2246 |
4.2 |
342 |
540 |
3504 |
2334 |
4.1 |
445 |
675 |
2749 |
2070 |
4.0 |
1668 |
3069 |
2430 |
1945 |
3.0 to 3.9 |
13205 |
1438 |
15167 |
14131 |
0.70 to 2.9 |
23848 |
25222 |
7426 |
7323 |
Other+ |
40 |
41 |
68 |
95 |
Other |
2081 |
2269 |
1628 |
1682 |
STAR RATINGS
Stars |
2015 |
2016 |
2019 |
5 |
12626 |
15275 |
14834 |
4 |
3810 |
4702 |
5108 |
3 |
1828 |
2184 |
2085 |
2 |
538 |
610 |
480 |
1 |
988 |
1119 |
714 |
0 |
22182 |
24275 |
14411 |
OTHER INTERESTING FACTS?
Number |
Factoid |
591 |
Plugins using the keyword block |
413 |
Plugins with SEO in their name |
2500 |
Plugins with widget in their name |
10% |
Percentage of plugins using “wp” in their name |
CAVEATS
- The latest 2019 figures were determined for 54497 plugins.
- The REST API doesn’t provide the same level of information as the published API.