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 Charts – January 2021
Total downloads: 4,979,794,242
Plugins: 58281
Top 12 plugins – total downloads and active
| 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 |
Grouped by total downloads
| 1->10 | 15 |
|---|---|
| 10->100 | 1481 |
| 100->1000 | 20122 |
| 1000->10000 | 24946 |
| 10000->100000 | 8879 |
| 100000->1000000 | 2293 |
| 1000000->10000000 | 474 |
| 10000000->100000000 | 65 |
| 100000000->1000000000 | 6 |
Last updated
WordPress version compatibility
| Version | Requires | Tested |
|---|---|---|
| 0.70 to 2.9 | 20218 | 4402 |
| 3.0 to 3.9 | 12988 | 9900 |
| 4.0 to 4.9 | 18107 | 17530 |
| 5.0 | 2178 | 1397 |
| 5.1 | 424 | 1089 |
| 5.2 | 718 | 2985 |
| 5.3 | 468 | 2664 |
| 5.4 | 242 | 3820 |
| 5.5 | 221 | 6031 |
| 5.6 | 48 | 6884 |
| Other | 2667 | 1500 |
| Other+ | 2 | 22 |
| 5.7 | 0 | 56 |
| 5.8 | 0 | 1 |
Star ratings
| 5 | 20006 |
|---|---|
| 4 | 6074 |
| 3 | 2520 |
| 2 | 673 |
| 1 | 1093 |
| 0 | 27915 |
Top 12 – 16th December 2020
On the 16th of December 2020 there were 58,121 plugins on wordpress.org. Or 57,993… depending on where you looked.
- Akismet and Wordfence have swapped positions again. With Wordfence up to 3rd.
- And Updraft Plus has overtaken OptinMonster in 11th place.
- Six plugins have achieved more than 100 million downloads.
- Fewer than 6% of the plugins have been tested with WordPress 5.6.
- Just over a quarter have been tested with this year’s WordPress releases: 5.4, 5.5 & 5.6.
Some trivia
- 69 plugins have been downloaded more than 10 million times.
- The twenty most popular words used in plugin names are: wp, for, woocommerce, widget, post, wordpress, simple, custom, plugin, and, by, to, posts, image, form, easy, page, social google and admin. Used between 5000 and 750 times.
quizappears 51 times on its own and 24 times as part of other words. eg quizzes – 5 and quizz – 3 times.- For some reason, in today’s extract, Google XML Sitemaps appears twice – in positions 21 and 22.
Total downloads: 4,907,197,347
Top 12 – 18th November 2020
On the 18th of November 2020 there were 58,134 plugins on WordPress.org
- Akismet and Wordfence have swapped positions.
- Up to 3 – Akismet – last updated 23rd Oct. 1.5 million dowloads that day.
- Down to 4 – Wordfence – last updated 21st Oct – the day I did my extract.
- There are 7 times more plugins than there are themes ( 7,956 ).
Top 12 – 21st October 2020
On the 21st of October 2020 there were 57,803 plugins on wordpress.org.
- OptinMonster has overtaken UpdraftPlus.
- Elementor has overtaken Google Analytics for WordPress.
- Jetpack has reached 200 million downloads.
- WordPress SEO total downloads has increased by 77 million in the past 12 months.
Total downloads: 4,653,582,090
Top 12 – 16th September 2020
On 16th September 2020 there were 57,403 plugins on wordpress.org.
- All-in-One WP Migration has been replaced by OptinMonster, at number 12.
- Elementor has moved up to 8, leaving All in One SEO Pack at 9.
- Wordfence has overtaken Akismet to get into the top 3.
- Over 500 plugins have been downloaded more than 1 million times.
- Apparently one plugin has been tested with WordPress 5.8!
Total downloads: 4,544,345,395
SB plugins
My first single block plugin is called SB Children block. I noticed there were quite a few blocks with the SB prefix.
Top 12 – 19th August 2020
On 19th August 2020 there were 57,086 plugins ( 57,013 officially ).
- That’s 100 fewer plugins than last month.
- The top 12 are still in the same order as July, June and May
- WooCommerce download has now exceeded 100 million.
- WordPress 5.5 was released on 11th August 2020.
- Over 4,000 plugins ( 7% ) have been tested with WordPress 5.5.
- and of those 32 require that version.
- 48% of all the plugins haven’t been rated.
- The next plugin to reach 10 million downloads will probably be WooCommerce Admin.
Total downloads: 4,438,512,436
Booking / reservation plugins
Paul Tansom was looking for recommendations for free booking plugins.
Something for people to be able to book sessions for cycle repair (probably other things in time) for a community group (hence the free bit).
Top 12 – 15th July 2020
On 15th July 2020 there were 57,175 plugins.
- WooCommerce has nearly reached 100 million downloads
- The top 12 are still in the same order as June and May.