

That’s a lot of people doing a lot of SEO. Yoast is the most popular SEO plugin, but Monster Insights, All In One SEO, GADWP, and Google Sitemap Generator all appear in the top 20.

Probably the least surprising fact here is that there’s a high proportion of SEO and analytic plugins. It’s a popular plugin with theme developers: many themes, including some of the big hitters on Theme Forest, recommend CF7Īccording to the plugin directory, CF7 has been downloaded over 66 million times.It’s been actively developed and supported since then (by Takayuki Miyoshi).CF7 was first released 10 years ago (when WordPress was on version 2.2).Some thoughts on this list Contact Form 7 appears on nearly 50% of all WordPress sitesĬontact Form 7’s popularity seems staggering at first – however, there are a number of reasons to account for it: The 20 most popular active WordPress pluginsīased on data gathered between 1 March 2017 and 7 December 2017 on just over 42,600 websites, the 20 most popular plugins active on WordPress sites are: Plugin There’s more information on how this data was collected at the bottom of the post. All the figures here are representative of products actually in use on websites. Note that the stats here are not for the most frequently downloaded plugins or themes, and they’re not based on any data supplied by the theme or plugin directories. The 20 most popular active WordPress themes.All the websites have been active this year (they’re not just dead and abandoned sites from way back) and the analysis has been interesting in several respects. Over the last few months, I’ve collected extensive data on over 40,000 websites. The findings here are all based on hard facts. However, I feel that this post is somewhat different. They’re easily compiled articles that (as far as I can see) have very little value for the reader. I have a personal dislike for list posts – you know the kind of thing, just cut-and-pasted round-ups of the ’20 top this’ or the ’10 top that’.
