WordPress becoming more popular not just only as a blogging software but as a CMS. Lots of users are using wordpress as A content management system where you can easily manage your website content from admin section without any technical skills. This post contains list of 100 most downloaded wordpress plugins.
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In this post i want to showcase most downloaded wordpress plugins from wordpress repository this doesn’t mean you have to install all these plugins but you can check them out.
List updated on 13 February 2013
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Plugin Name |
Total Downloads |
| 1 |
Akismet |
13,728,261 |
| 2 |
All in One SEO Pack |
13,533,331 |
| 3 |
Contact Form 7 |
9,781,520 |
| 4 |
Google XML Sitemaps |
9,620,528 |
| 5 |
NextGEN Gallery |
6,686,140 |
| 6 |
WP Super Cache |
4,085,110 |
| 7 |
Google Analytics for WordPress |
4,054,445 |
| 8 |
Jetpack by WordPress.com |
4,050,881 |
| 9 |
WPtouch |
3,881,436 |
| 10 |
WordPress Importer |
3,865,567 |
| 11 |
WordPress SEO by Yoast |
3,522,352 |
| 12 |
Fast Secure Contact Form |
3,398,773 |
| 13 |
WP-PageNavi |
3,268,081 |
| 14 |
WP e-Commerce |
2,272,074 |
| 15 |
Google Analyticator |
2,246,079 |
| 16 |
Yet Another Related Posts Plugin |
2,149,607 |
| 17 |
TinyMCE Advanced |
2,135,963 |
| 18 |
Sociable |
1,918,993 |
| 19 |
Shareaholic | email, bookmark, share buttons |
1,804,827 |
| 20 |
W3 Total Cache |
1,637,861 |
| 21 |
Broken Link Checker |
1,582,163 |
| 22 |
WP-DB-Backup |
1,525,307 |
| 23 |
Smart YouTube PRO |
1,499,470 |
| 24 |
SI CAPTCHA Anti-Spam |
1,491,505 |
| 25 |
BuddyPress |
1,384,458 |
| 26 |
WP to Twitter |
1,304,006 |
| 27 |
AddThis |
1,205,178 |
| 28 |
WP-Polls |
1,204,171 |
| 29 |
Redirection |
1,190,495 |
| 30 |
Viper’s Video Quicktags |
1,168,585 |
| 31 |
Really Simple CAPTCHA |
1,163,948 |
| 32 |
ShareThis: Share Buttons and Sharing Analytics |
1,154,171 |
| 33 |
Ultimate TinyMCE |
1,084,269 |
| 34 |
Add Link to Facebook |
1,070,627 |
| 35 |
Twitter Tools |
1,029,755 |
| 36 |
SEO Ultimate |
1,024,045 |
| 37 |
GD Star Rating |
1,021,902 |
| 38 |
Page Links To |
1,001,807 |
| 39 |
Disqus Comment System |
938,508 |
| 40 |
Subscribe2 |
929,725 |
| 41 |
SEO Friendly Images |
878,403 |
| 42 |
Xhanch – My Twitter |
825,791 |
| 43 |
Post video players, slideshow albums, photo galleries and music / podcast playlist |
811,013 |
| 44 |
Social Media Widget |
807,215 |
| 45 |
Breadcrumb NavXT |
788,160 |
| 46 |
Maintenance Mode |
785,028 |
| 47 |
WP-DBManager |
768,538 |
| 48 |
WP-PostViews |
765,372 |
| 49 |
Exclude Pages |
763,862 |
| 50 |
WP-PostRatings |
750,771 |
| 51 |
SEO Smart Links |
723,364 |
| 52 |
GRAND FlAGallery |
722,949 |
| 53 |
Lightbox Plus ColorBox |
718,426 |
| 54 |
qTranslate |
709,942 |
| 55 |
Advanced Custom Fields |
692,536 |
| 56 |
Ozh’ Admin Drop Down Menu |
683,273 |
| 57 |
CommentLuv |
644,375 |
| 58 |
Twitter Widget Pro |
639,557 |
| 59 |
FeedWordPress |
638,505 |
| 60 |
WP Maintenance Mode |
623,140 |
| 61 |
WordPress Related Posts |
620,009 |
| 62 |
Pretty Link Lite |
611,717 |
| 63 |
Simple Facebook Connect |
611,434 |
| 64 |
Image Widget |
593,184 |
| 65 |
WP Photo Album Plus |
592,246 |
| 66 |
Regenerate Thumbnails |
591,018 |
| 67 |
Audio Player |
584,533 |
| 68 |
Digg Digg |
574,819 |
| 69 |
Polldaddy Polls & Ratings |
570,559 |
| 70 |
Contact Form |
540,841 |
| 71 |
Events Manager |
540,186 |
| 72 |
Facebook |
536,040 |
| 73 |
WP-Table Reloaded |
533,456 |
| 74 |
bbPress |
532,741 |
| 75 |
Theme My Login |
526,880 |
| 76 |
WooCommerce – excelling eCommerce |
523,269 |
| 77 |
User Role Editor |
517,980 |
| 78 |
Lightbox Gallery |
517,616 |
| 79 |
Custom Contact Forms |
511,914 |
| 80 |
WordPress Download Monitor |
503,864 |
| 81 |
Widget Logic |
502,709 |
| 82 |
BackWPup |
495,676 |
| 83 |
BulletProof Security |
494,423 |
| 84 |
eShop |
482,609 |
| 85 |
Newsletter |
479,946 |
| 86 |
BackUpWordPress |
462,837 |
| 87 |
Really simple Facebook Twitter share buttons |
459,172 |
| 88 |
WordPress Popular Posts |
452,992 |
| 89 |
WordPress Mobile Pack |
445,065 |
| 90 |
MapPress Easy Google Maps |
422,942 |
| 91 |
Exploit Scanner |
422,545 |
| 92 |
JW Player for WordPress – Flash & HTML5 Video Player |
409,331 |
| 93 |
Search and Replace |
405,938 |
| 94 |
Better WP Security |
404,597 |
| 95 |
AdRotate |
404,122 |
| 96 |
Antispam Bee |
403,337 |
| 97 |
Contact Form DB |
400,268 |
| 98 |
MailChimp List Subscribe Form |
396,713 |
| 99 |
FancyBox for WordPress |
393,663 |
| 100 |
WP Mail SMTP |
393,471 |
WordPress plugin repository is very active and new plugins are added regularly. Most downloaded wordpress plugins doesn’t mean they are good, use plugins which are having good ranking and features to suit your websites requirements.
