There are now 42 Full Site Editing (FSE) themes published on wordpress.org. The most recently added show 0 downloads in December, and a few in January.
Top 12 – 14th December 2021
Here’s the report for the Top 12 WordPress plugins by total downloads as of the 14th December 2021.
- All in One SEO pack has overtaken wpforms-lite to move back up into 9th place.
- Contact Form 7 has reached 200 million downloads.
- Over 200 plugins have been added since last month.
Total downloads: 6,241,811,641
Plugins: 59659
FSE and Bundled themes total downloads
31 themes on wordpress.org are tagged as Full Site Editing (FSE) . This chart shows the total downloads for each theme as of 13th December 2021.
Top 12 – 15th November 2021
Here’s the report for the Top 12 WordPress plugins by total downloads as of the 15th November 2021.
- There’s been no change to the order since September.
- Jetpack is now 30 million ahead of Akismet.
- Wordfence was last ahead of Akismet in December 2020.
Total downloads: 6,130,318,649
Plugins: 59425
My Favourite Plugin – WordPress Cambridge Meetup – 8 Nov 2021
Here’s a list of some of the plugins that were talked about at the meetup.
Chris Cox told us about Enable Media Replace, Simon Bragg talked about HTTP headers, then there was TablePress, and Internal Links Manager.
Also mentioned were plugins to eliminate unwanted JavaScript and CSS – Hummingbird.
Elliot Richmond told us about his WooCommerce checkout extension used to help couriers locate premises for local deliveries.
I, Herb Miller, mentioned a couple of plugins in “My Favourite Plugin”
Michael Noder included a link to a video about CloudFlare and a plugin called WP Auto Terms.
Total plugins: 59457
| Position | Plugin | Total downloads | Active | Star Rating | Tested up to |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 | SiteGround Optimizer | 38046619 | 1000000 | 4.4 | 5.9 |
| 34 | Rank Math SEO | 27824448 | 1000000 | 4.9 | 5.9 |
| 113 | TablePress | 7791343 | 800000 | 5 | 5.9 |
| 128 | Enable Media Replace | 6482212 | 500000 | 4.4 | 5.9 |
| 296 | Hummingbird | 2531755 | 100000 | 4.8 | 5.9 |
| 430 | WebP Express | 1633144 | 100000 | 4.6 | 5.8.3 |
| 1452 | HTTP Headers | 325209 | 30000 | 4.5 | 5.7.5 |
| 3602 | Internal Links Manager | 79114 | 9000 | 4.8 | 5.8.3 |
| 8892 | Advanced Custom Fields: TablePress | 18008 | 1000 | 4.8 | 4.5.25 |
| 11185 | TablePress Extension: Chartist | 11895 | 1000 | 5 | 4.9.19 |
| 24846 | “SEO-HEADERS-Easy” Protocol HTTP 1.1 | 2604 | 300 | 4.7 | 4.4.26 |
| 29960 | inDiv for TablePress | 1771 | 300 | 0 | 5.6.7 |
| 35817 | Eazy HTTP Headers | 1185 | 50 | 0 | 4..9.1 |
| 39569 | WebP Express Plus | 941 | 100 | 5 | 5.7.5 |
| 42732 | Secure HTTP Headers | 781 | 100 | 3 | 5.7.5 |
| 51136 | WP Secure HTTP Headers | 434 | 60 | 0 | 5.2.14 |
| 51501 | WP Hummingbird Purger | 421 | 10 | 0 | |
| 56876 | WP Activity Log Extension for TablePress | 185 | 0 | 0 | 5.9 |
| 18 | TOTALS | 84752069 |
Top 12 – 7th November 2021
Here’s the report for the Top 12 WordPress plugins by total downloads as of the 7th November 2021.
- There’s been no change to the order since September.
- Jetpack’s reached a quarter of a billion downloads.
- The total downloads of the top 4 plugins (1046 million) is one sixth of the total plugin downloads from wordpress.org
Total downloads: 6,100,316,618
Plugins: 59330
Top 12 plugins – total downloads and active
| Position | Plugin | Total downloads |
|---|---|---|
| 12 | all-in-one-wp-migration | 63,146,457 |
| 11 | really-simple-ssl | 75,537,100 |
| 10 | wpforms-lite | 85,358,027 |
| 9 | all-in-one-seo-pack | 86,295,952 |
| 8 | google-analytics-for-wordpress | 103,475,285 |
| 7 | elementor | 139,784,516 |
| 6 | woocommerce | 158,989,882 |
| 5 | contact-form-7 | 197,274,530 |
| 4 | wordfence | 216,749,457 |
| 3 | akismet | 222,415,845 |
| 2 | jetpack | 252,716,455 |
| 1 | wordpress-seo | 371,216,852 |
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Top 12 – 19th October 2021
Here’s the report for the Top 12 WordPress plugins by total downloads as of the 19th October 2021.
The total number of downloads from WordPress dot org recently exceeded 6 billion. That’s over 1 billion downloads in just under 10 months. Or 268 days since Five billion plugin downloads! Approximately 3.7 million downloads a day.
In that time the total number of plugins has also increased.
- The order of the top 12 by total downloads hasn’t changed since September.
- Google Analytics for WordPress has exceeded 100 million downloads.
- There are now 8 plugins with more than 100M downloads.
- 16% of the plugins have been tested with WordPress 5.8
Top 12 – 12th September 2021
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.
Top 12 – 21st July 2021
On the 21st July 2021 there were 58,701 plugins in the wordpress.org plugin repository.
- 17 fewer than in June.
- The Top 12 by total downloads was the same as for June.
- Total downloads for Akismet had exceeded 200 million.
- 4 plugins require WordPress 5.8
- Over 2.5 thousand plugins have been tested with WordPress 5.8
Top 12 – 16th June 2021
On the 16th June 2021 there were 58,718 plugins in the wordpress.org plugin repository.
- Wordfence has reached 200 million downloads.
- All-In-One WP Migration has entered the chart at 12, replacing Updraftplus
- 14 plugins have reached 50 million total downloads.
- 118 plugins already say they’ve been tested with WordPress 5.8.