Most popular WordPress Plugins by Active Installations
The WordPress repository boasts an impressive array of over 50,000 plugins. However, only a fraction of these achieve the milestone of hundreds of thousands of active installations. Join us as we embark on a journey to uncover these popular plugins.
In our pursuit of the most sought-after plugins, we turned to the WordPress.org API to meticulously compile a comprehensive list of those with over 1 million active installations.
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| Plugin | Author | Total downloads | Active installs | Published |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. Elementor Website Builder – More than Just a Page Builder The Elementor Website Builder has it all: drag and drop page builder, pixel perfect design, mobile responsive editing, and more. Get started now! | Elementor.com | 445.303.287 | 10.000.000 | 2016-05-30 |
| 2. Contact Form 7 Just another contact form plugin. Simple but flexible. | Takayuki Miyoshi | 332.786.094 | 10.000.000 | 2007-08-02 |
| 3. Yoast SEO Improve your WordPress SEO: Write better content and have a fully optimized WordPress site using the Yoast SEO plugin. | Team Yoast | 683.386.475 | 10.000.000 | 2010-10-11 |
| 4. Classic Editor Enables the previous "classic" editor and the old-style Edit Post screen with TinyMCE, Meta Boxes, etc. Supports all plugins that extend this screen. | WordPress Contributors | 57.766.931 | 10.000.000 | 2017-10-24 |
| 5. WooCommerce Everything you need to launch an online store in days and keep it growing for years. From your first sale to millions in revenue, Woo is with you. | Automattic | 312.240.931 | 7.000.000 | 2011-09-27 |
| 6. Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection The best anti-spam protection to block spam comments and spam in a contact form. The most trusted antispam solution for WordPress and WooCommerce. | Automattic - Anti-spam Team | 321.022.258 | 7.000.000 | 2005-10-20 |
| 7. Contact Form by WPForms – Drag & Drop Form Builder for WordPress The best WordPress contact form plugin. Drag & Drop form builder to create beautiful contact forms, payment forms, & other custom forms in minutes. | WPForms | 202.101.282 | 6.000.000 | 2016-03-14 |
| 8. All-in-One WP Migration and Backup Backup, transfer, copy, and move a site with 1-click. Quick, easy, and reliable. | ServMask | 125.537.232 | 5.000.000 | 2014-01-07 |
| 9. LiteSpeed Cache All-in-one unbeatable acceleration & PageSpeed improvement: caching, image/CSS/JS optimization... | LiteSpeed Technologies | 67.515.274 | 5.000.000 | 2016-01-29 |
| 10. Wordfence Security – Firewall, Malware Scan, and Login Security Firewall, Malware Scanner, Two Factor Auth and Comprehensive Security Features, powered by our 24 hour team. Make security a priority with Wordfence. | Wordfence | 349.335.690 | 5.000.000 | 2012-04-21 |
| 11. Really Simple SSL Easily improve site security with WordPress hardening, vulnerability detection and SSL certificate generation. | Really Simple Plugins | 151.120.912 | 5.000.000 | 2015-03-15 |
| 12. Jetpack – WP Security, Backup, Speed, & Growth Improve your WP security with powerful one-click tools like backup, WAF, and malware scan. Includes free tools like stats, CDN and social sharing. | Automattic | 410.291.030 | 4.000.000 | 2011-01-20 |
| 13. Yoast Duplicate Post The go-to tool for cloning posts and pages, including the powerful Rewrite & Republish feature. | Enrico Battocchi & Team Yoast | 34.316.022 | 4.000.000 | 2007-12-05 |
| 14. Site Kit by Google – Analytics, Search Console, AdSense, Speed Site Kit is a one-stop solution for WordPress users to use everything Google has to offer to make them successful on the web. | 125.385.155 | 4.000.000 | 2019-10-31 | |
| 15. WP Mail SMTP by WPForms – The Most Popular SMTP and Email Log Plugin Make email delivery easy for WordPress. Connect with SMTP, Gmail, Outlook, SendGrid, Mailgun, SES, Zoho, + more. Rated #1 WordPress SMTP Email plugin. | WP Mail SMTP | 53.108.191 | 3.000.000 | 2007-09-12 |
| 16. UpdraftPlus: WordPress Backup & Migration Plugin Backup, restoration and migration - world's most popular backup tool. Backup to the cloud - schedule backups or backup manually. | UpdraftPlus.Com, DavidAnderson | 119.297.969 | 3.000.000 | 2012-05-22 |
| 17. WordPress Importer Import posts, pages, comments, custom fields, categories, tags and more from a WordPress export file. | wordpressdotorg | 51.273.015 | 3.000.000 | 2010-05-20 |
| 18. Duplicate Page Duplicate Posts, Pages and Custom Posts easily using single click | mndpsingh287 | 26.786.293 | 3.000.000 | 2016-05-04 |
| 19. All in One SEO – Powerful SEO Plugin to Boost SEO Rankings & Increase Traffic AIOSEO is the most powerful WordPress SEO plugin. Improve SEO rankings and traffic with comprehensive SEO tools and smart AI SEO optimizations! | All in One SEO Team | 150.897.384 | 3.000.000 | 2007-03-30 |
| 20. MonsterInsights – Google Analytics Dashboard for WordPress (Website Stats Made Easy) The best free Google Analytics plugin for WordPress. See how visitors find and use your website, so you can grow your business. | MonsterInsights | 185.731.705 | 3.000.000 | 2007-09-14 |
| 21. Rank Math SEO – AI SEO Tools to Dominate SEO Rankings Rank Math SEO is the Best WordPress SEO plugin with the features of many SEO and AI SEO tools in a single package to help multiply your SEO traffic. | Rank Math | 97.059.693 | 2.000.000 | 2018-11-19 |
| 22. Redirection Manage 301 redirects, track 404 errors, and improve your site. No knowledge of Apache or Nginx required. | John Godley | 55.622.544 | 2.000.000 | 2007-09-10 |
| 23. Classic Widgets Enables the previous "classic" widgets settings screens in Appearance - Widgets and the Customizer. Disables the block editor from managing widgets. | WordPress Contributors | 5.453.338 | 2.000.000 | 2021-05-05 |
| 24. WPCode – Insert Headers and Footers + Custom Code Snippets – WordPress Code Manager Easily add code snippets in WordPress. Insert header & footer scripts, add PHP code snippets with conditional logic, insert ads pixel code, and more. | WPCode | 42.062.472 | 2.000.000 | 2012-07-12 |
| 25. Advanced Editor Tools Extends and enhances the block editor (Gutenberg) and the classic editor (TinyMCE). | Automattic | 34.001.887 | 2.000.000 | 2007-06-22 |
| 26. Limit Login Attempts Reloaded Block excessive login attempts and protect your site against brute force attacks. Simple, yet powerful tools to improve site performance. | Limit Login Attempts Reloaded | 55.642.089 | 2.000.000 | 2016-08-03 |
| 27. Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) helps you easily customize WordPress with powerful, professional and intuitive fields. Proudly powering over 2 million we … | WP Engine | 49.425.566 | 2.000.000 | 2011-03-25 |
| 28. MC4WP: Mailchimp for WordPress The #1 Mailchimp plugin for WordPress. Allows you to add a multitude of newsletter sign-up methods to your site. | ibericode | 55.487.304 | 2.000.000 | 2013-06-19 |
| 29. Essential Addons for Elementor – Best Elementor Templates, Widgets, Kits & WooCommerce Builders The Essential plugin you install after Elementor! Packed with 50+ stunning elements like Data Table, Event Calendar, Filterable Gallery, WooCommerce. | WPDeveloper | 75.584.122 | 2.000.000 | 2017-07-20 |
| 30. Elementor Header & Footer Builder Create Header, Footer and Blocks for your WordPress website using Elementor Page Builder for free. | Brainstorm Force, Nikhil Chavan | 28.933.800 | 2.000.000 | 2017-03-07 |
| 31. WP Super Cache A very fast caching engine for WordPress that produces static html files. | Automattic | 52.351.086 | 1.000.000 | 2007-11-05 |
| 32. Starter Templates — Elementor, WordPress & Beaver Builder Templates The growing library of 300+ ready-to-use templates that work with all WordPress themes including Astra, Hello, OceanWP, GeneratePress and more | Brainstorm Force | 58.601.740 | 1.000.000 | 2017-07-26 |
| 33. Loco Translate Translate WordPress plugins and themes directly in your browser | Tim Whitlock | 25.323.764 | 1.000.000 | 2013-07-23 |
| 34. Speed Optimizer – The All-In-One Performance-Boosting Plugin Boost your website performance and page speed, and increase conversions with powerful caching, frontend, media, and environment optimizations. | SiteGround | 75.661.100 | 1.000.000 | 2014-11-25 |
| 35. Hostinger Tools Hostinger Tools is an all-in-one plugin designed to streamline essential tasks for WordPress site administrators. This plugin offers a range of featur … | Hostinger | 6.169.213 | 1.000.000 | 2023-11-03 |
| 36. Duplicator – Migration & Backup Plugin WordPress migration and backups are much easier with Duplicator! Clone, backup, move and transfer an entire site from one location to another. | Duplicator | 42.167.805 | 1.000.000 | 2011-06-07 |
| 37. WPS Hide Login Change wp-login.php to anything you want. | WPServeur, NicolasKulka, wpformation | 21.505.025 | 1.000.000 | 2015-04-23 |
| 38. Disable Comments – Remove Comments & Stop Spam [Multi-Site Support] Allows administrators to globally disable comments on their site. Comments can be disabled according to post type. Multisite friendly. | WPDeveloper | 24.675.730 | 1.000.000 | 2011-05-27 |
| 39. Popup Builder by OptinMonster – WordPress Popups for Optins, Email Newsletters and Lead Generation 🤩 Make popups & optin forms to get more email newsletter subscribers, leads, and sales - #1 most popular popup builder plugin! 🚀 | OptinMonster Popup Builder Team | 105.288.854 | 1.000.000 | 2015-04-26 |
| 40. WP Fastest Cache The simplest and fastest WP Cache system | Emre Vona | 49.384.956 | 1.000.000 | 2013-08-04 |
| 41. CookieYes – Cookie Banner for Cookie Consent (Easy to setup GDPR/CCPA Compliant Cookie Notice) Easily set up cookie banner or cookie notice and cookie policy page for GDPR (DSGVO, RGPD) compliance. Also supports CCPA/CPRA and other major global … | CookieYes | 30.636.662 | 1.000.000 | 2012-05-21 |
| 42. XML Sitemap Generator for Google Generate multiple types of sitemaps to improve SEO and get your website indexed quickly. | Auctollo | 39.382.319 | 1.000.000 | 2005-06-16 |
| 43. Better Search Replace A simple plugin to update URLs or other text in a database. | WP Engine | 14.170.446 | 1.000.000 | 2015-01-06 |
| 44. ElementsKit Elementor addons and Templates Library The Elementor Addons provides various premium and free Elementor addons. Get exclusive modules and 90+ custom Elementor widgets under one hood. | Wpmet | 20.128.504 | 1.000.000 | 2019-07-06 |
| 45. Smush Image Optimization – Optimize Images | Compress & Lazy Load Images | Convert WebP | Image CDN Compress images & optimize images with built-in lossless compression, lazy load, WebP conversion, and resize detection to make your site load amaz … | WPMU DEV | 54.154.449 | 1.000.000 | 2008-12-05 |
| 46. ManageWP Worker A better way to manage dozens of WordPress websites. | GoDaddy | 21.078.980 | 1.000.000 | 2011-03-10 |
| 47. Regenerate Thumbnails Regenerate the thumbnails for one or more of your image uploads. Useful when changing their sizes or your theme. | Alex Mills (Viper007Bond) | 21.302.280 | 1.000.000 | 2008-08-28 |
| 48. SVG Support Safely upload SVG files to the Media Library with optional sanitization and minification. Render your SVG files inline for direct styling/animation of … | Benbodhi | 8.017.081 | 1.000.000 | 2014-07-22 |
| 49. Loginizer Loginizer is a WordPress security plugin which helps you fight against bruteforce attacks. | Softaculous | 20.861.251 | 1.000.000 | 2016-01-27 |
| 50. Custom Post Type UI Admin UI for creating custom content types like post types and taxonomies | WebDevStudios | 17.609.792 | 1.000.000 | 2010-02-26 |
| 51. One Click Demo Import Import your demo content, widgets and theme settings with one click. Theme authors! Enable simple theme demo import for your users. | OCDI | 15.837.340 | 1.000.000 | 2016-03-25 |
| 52. Smash Balloon Social Photo Feed – Easy Social Feeds Plugin Formerly "Instagram Feed". Display clean, customizable, and responsive Instagram feeds from multiple accounts. Supports Instagram oEmbeds. | Smash Balloon | 40.682.805 | 1.000.000 | 2014-07-23 |
| 53. File Manager file manager provides you ability to edit, delete, upload, download, copy and paste files and folders. | mndpsingh287 | 23.337.425 | 1.000.000 | 2016-08-09 |
| 54. WP-Optimize – Cache, Compress images, Minify & Clean database to boost page speed & performance Get caching and more with this powerful cache plugin. Cache, optimize images, clean your database and minify for maximum performance. | David Anderson, Ruhani Rabin, Team Updraft | 38.046.503 | 1.000.000 | 2009-01-21 |
| 55. W3 Total Cache Search Engine (SEO) & Performance Optimization (WPO) via caching. Integrated caching: CDN, Page, Minify, Object, Fragment, Database support. | BoldGrid | 48.442.107 | 1.000.000 | 2009-07-29 |
| 56. Envato Elements – Photos & Elementor Templates Access thousands of quality, free templates; plus royalty-free photos from Envato Elements. | Envato | 7.777.141 | 1.000.000 | 2018-07-31 |
| 57. Cookie Notice & Compliance for GDPR / CCPA Cookie Notice allows you to you elegantly inform users that your site uses cookies and helps you comply with GDPR, CCPA and other data privacy laws. | Hu-manity.co | 28.359.282 | 1.000.000 | 2013-07-08 |
| 58. Security Optimizer – The All-In-One Protection Plugin Secure your WordPress site from brute-force attacks, threats, malware, and bots. Free to use and easy to set up. | SiteGround | 20.719.957 | 1.000.000 | 2021-05-31 |
| 59. Autoptimize Autoptimize speeds up your website by optimizing JS, CSS, images (incl. lazy-load), HTML and Google Fonts, asyncing JS, removing emoji cruft and more. | Frank Goossens (futtta) | 39.158.909 | 1.000.000 | 2009-07-09 |
| 60. EWWW Image Optimizer Smaller Images, Faster Sites, Happier Visitors. Comprehensive image optimization that doesn't require a degree in rocket science. | Exactly WWW | 37.043.598 | 1.000.000 | 2012-06-07 |
| 61. All-In-One Security (AIOS) – Security and Firewall Protect your website investment with All-In-One Security (AIOS) – a comprehensive and easy to use security plugin designed especially for WordPress. | All In One WP Security & Firewall Team | 27.141.024 | 1.000.000 | 2013-06-03 |
| 62. Redux Framework Redux is a simple, truly extensible and fully responsive options framework for WordPress themes and plugins. It ships with an integrated demo. | Team Redux | 26.109.539 | 1.000.000 | 2013-10-24 |
| 63. WP Multibyte Patch Multibyte functionality enhancement for the WordPress Japanese package. | Seisuke Kuraishi | 6.571.515 | 1.000.000 | 2011-07-14 |
| 64. Complianz – GDPR/CCPA Cookie Consent Configure your Cookie Banner, Cookie Consent and Cookie Policy with our Wizard and Cookie Scan. | Really Simple Plugins | 16.612.010 | 1.000.000 | 2018-06-26 |
We trust this list has sparked the inspiration for you to contribute to the WordPress community in your own way. Whether it's assisting with translations or publishing your own plugin, every contribution counts toward the vibrant ecosystem of WordPress.
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