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.
Total downloads: 4,321,308,689
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
Page hit counter
At WordUp Pompey! last night, during questions after Steve Wood’s talk on Wordfence, another Steve asked about a page hit counter that suggested editing a file to add some code. He asked what Wordfence would do when it saw a changed file.
Steve hadn’t yet found a page hit counter he liked. So here’s a list.
Top 12 – 15 May 2020
On 15th May there were 56,321 plugins on wordpress.org.
- wp-super-cache dropped out of the top 12: to 14th.
- It was replaced by all-in-one-migration at 12 with optinmonster in 13th position.
- Positions 1 to 11 are unchanged – same order as February.
- WordPress SEO is one minor release away from a quarter of a billion downloads.
Less than half of the total plugins have been updated in the last 3 years.
Top 12 – 15 April 2020
On 15th April there were 55,805 plugins on wordpress.org.
- The top 12 are in the same order as in February.
- In recent weeks Wordfence exceeded 150 million downloads and Elementor 50 million.
- Over 5,000 plugins have been marked compatible with WordPress 5.4
Top 12 – 8 Feb 2020
On 8th February 2020 there were 55,609 plugins on wordpress.org. Will the number of new plugins added per day ever tail off?
- WP Super Cache has re-entered the chart at 12th, knocking OptinMonster down to 13th.
- Wordfence, still in 4th place, has almost made it to 150 million downloads.
- Nearly 60% of all plugins have not been tested past WordPress 4.9.
Top 12 – 30 Jan 2020
On 30th January there were 55,481 plugins on wordpress.org. Again an increase of over 10 plugins per day since mid Jan.
- Nearly 4,000 plugins have been updated so far in 2020.
- Google Analytics for WordPress has moved up, swapping with All in one SEO pack.
- One more plugin has reached 10 million downloads: all-in-one-wp-security-and-firewall, making 48 in total.
- Two stars is the least popular rating for a plugin.
Top 20 for Collapsing Archives
At the WordPress Portsmouth Meetup – 15 Jan 2020 – some people were searching for a plugin to help improve the display of Archives / Categories when the list was very long.
Below are the results of this wp-top12 shortcode to list the first 20 plugins with name containing collaps or archiv
[wp-top12 includes=collaps,archiv limit=20]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.