Top 10 WordPress plugins

WordUp Pompey! December 2019.   Originally developed August 2012

Category: News

  • 10 billion downloads: downloads and plugin count history – Oct 2019 to Feb 2024

    10 billion total downloads of active plugins from wordpress.org reached early this morning, 16th February 2024

    Herb Miller @bobbingwide
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  • 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

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  • Top 12 WordPress plugins – November 2019

    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:

    Positionmoveplugin201520162019
    1 up 2wordpress-seo2388896737219578203 million
    2 down 1akismet4187086654086058146 million
    3 up 2jetpack2085495730883469146 million
    4 up 2wordfence1065525922199987136 million
    5 down 3contact-form-73326445745014223122 million
    6 up 1woocommerce115421641896827078 million
    7 down 3all-in-one-seo-pack253401543122228262 million
    8 up 3google-analytics-for-wordpress104362891269721556 million
    9 new entryelementor??38 million
    10 new entrywpforms-lite??33 million
    11 up 1wp-super-cache90314981131336931 million
    12 new entryupdraftplus??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 downloads201520162019
    1->1016713716
    10->100240518151391
    100->1000153071801719934
    1000->10000169191982622705
    10000->100000593867998022
    100000->1000000111813792026
    1000000->10000000127180360
    10000000->100000000111238
    100000000->-10000000005

    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 updated201520162019
    201916699
    20186206
    20174974
    2016169965285
    20151614972924665
    2014660254294006
    2013446240923039
    2012395537732935
    2011332532352388
    2010317431211905
    2009239223491402
    200812651247663
    2007430420227
    2006616133
    200514314364
    2004776

    WORDPRESS VERSION COMPATIBILITY

    Versions of WordPress – minimum required versions and tested up to.

    VersionRequires 2015Requires 2016Tested 2015Tested 2016
    4.8232
    4.73824477
    4.622635115
    4.5723753
    4.45772637552962
    4.330655251862246
    4.234254035042334
    4.144567527492070
    4.01668306924301945
    3.0 to 3.91320514381516714131
    0.70 to 2.9238482522274267323
    Other+40416895
    Other2081226916281682

    STAR RATINGS

    Stars201520162019
    5126261527514834
    4381047025108
    3182821842085
    2538610480
    19881119714
    0221822427514411

    OTHER INTERESTING FACTS?

    NumberFactoid
    591 Plugins using the keyword block
    413Plugins with SEO in their name
    2500Plugins 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.

  • Top 10 WP plugins has moved

    I’m in the process of consolidating multiple WordPress Multi Site networks into a single network and letting a number of domains expire.

  • Top 12 WordPress plugins – December 2016

    Today, 22 December 2016, according to WordPress.org there are 48,166 plugins on WordPress.org.
    Total downloads: 1,506,575,759. That’s an increase of over 6,000 plugins (was 42,001), and nearly 400 million downloads (was 1,126,080,405), in one year. (more…)
  • Site broken since 17th Feb now fixed 7th July

    Site broken since 17th Feb now fixed 7th July

    When PHP was upgraded to version 5.4.45 on the 17th Feb the wp-top-10-plugins.com site took a dive. It’s just resurfaced again today. (more…)