According to W3Tech, WordPress powers 38% of all the websites on the internet. Currently, WordPress developers have produced over 58,000 plugins that can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. What is a plugin?! As you may already know, a WordPress plugin is a PHP script containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website.
In this post, I’ll give you an overview of the most popular WordPress plugins.
Most Popular WordPress Plugins
There is no denying that there is a list of the most popular plugins on the wordpress.org website. Yes, but this list constantly changes. So, this post will focus on the most popular plugins ever!
1. WooCommerce
“WooCommerce is an open-source e-commerce plugin.” This plugin is free and adds e-commerce functionality to your WordPress website. If you want to create an online store using WordPress, then you should install the WooCommerce plugin on your website.
- Active installations: 5+ million
- Reviews: 3,654
- Average Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
2. Yoast SEO
“Yoast SEO is a search engine optimization plug-in for WordPress.” Yoast SEO plugin helps your website rank higher in search engines and contains everything you need to manage your Search Engine Optimization.
- Active installations: 5+ million
- Reviews: 27,280
- Average Rating: 4.9 out of 5 stars
3. Contact Form 7
Contact Form 7 is a simple and widely chosen WordPress plugin for creating and adding contact forms to WordPress websites. It is one of the oldest WordPress contact form plugins and is still helpful in making various contact forms.
- Active installations: 5+ million
- Reviews: 1,823
- Average Rating: 4.1 out of 5 stars
4. Classic Editor
Classic Editor was the default editor for the previous version of WordPress. But now, in WordPress 5.0, Classic Editor is a plugin that you should install to restore the previous classic editor.
- Active installations: 5+ million
- Reviews: 903
- Average Rating: 4.9 out of 5 stars
5. Wordfence Security
Wordfence is a security plugin that helps protect your website against malware, hacking, and brute-force attacks. Wordfence includes an endpoint firewall and malware scanner that was built from the ground up to protect WordPress. Our Threat Defense Feed arms Wordfence with the newest firewall rules, malware signatures, and malicious IP addresses it needs to keep your website safe. Rounded out by 2FA and a suite of additional features, Wordfence is the most comprehensive WordPress security solution available.”
- Active installations: 5+ million
- Reviews: 903
- Average Rating: 4.9 out of 5 stars
conclusion
In this post, I tried to give you some ideas about the most popular WordPress plugins. Well, to be honest, when it comes to talking about the best or most popular plugins, everyone has a top 10 list, but there is one thing that I can say for sure:
WooCmmerce, Yoast SEO, Wordfance, Classic Editor, and Contact Form 7 are the most popular of all time.
What other plugins can you add to this list that I may not have mentioned? Let us know in the comments. Thank you for reading.
