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 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 |
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SB Chart block
I’m just testing my brand new SB Chart block plugin. It diplays charts: Line, Bar, Horizontal bar and Pie. I’m going to use it in my monthly top 12 plugins report.
Top 12 – 14 June 2020
On 14th June 2020 there were 56,743 plugins.
- WordPress SEO has recently exceeded a quarter of a billion downloads.
- The Top 12 are in the same order as in May.
- Two more plugins have reached 10 million downloads:
- litespeed-cache up 7 to position 55, overtaking
- backwpup, which is down 1 to position 56.
Total downloads: 4,222,132,145
Top 20 Spam plugins
In response to a question at the WordPress Portsmouth Meetup – Hands on Problem Solving clinic, here’s the top 20 plugins which include spam in their plugin name or short description.