With all the WordPress plugins available today, there are ones that really out shine others with regards to users using them on a daily basis and others that don’t get used at all.
Please note that the download stats have been used while writing this post, they could of increased since then.
I have listed 35 popular plugins according to WordPress and they are:
- All in One SEO Pack – 3,296,121 Downloads
- Contact form 7 – 926,506 Downloads
- Google XML Sitemaps – 1,995,042 Downloads
- NextGEN Gallery – 1,163,814 Downloads
- SexyBookmarks – 63,366 Downloads
- Easy AdSense – 265,594 Downloads
- GD Star Rating – 252,503 Downloads
- Yet Another Related Posts Plugin – 258,779 Downloads
- WP-Cumulus – 293,879 Downloads
- Add to Any: Share/Bookmark/Email Button – 499,738 Downloads
- WPtouch iPhone Theme – 217,894 Downloads
- Page Flip Image Gallery – 270,389 Downloads
- Akismet – 1,921,123 Downloads
- Viper’s Video Quicktags – 381,751 Downloads
- Google XML Sitemaps – 11,034 Downloads
- Broken Link Checker – 135,412 Downloads
- WP Super Cache – 742,225 Downloads
- WordPress.com Stats – 945,382 Downloads
- WP-Polls – 335,328 Downloads
- Simple Tags – 316,006 Downloads
- Platinum SEO Pack – 126,019 Downloads
- WP-PageNavi – 381,408 Downloads
- WP e-Commerce – 293,683 Downloads
- Google Analyticator – 554,005 Downloads
- Sociable – 664,866 Downloads
- Google Analytics for WordPress – 542,263 Downloads
- WP Security Scan – 237,632 Downloads
- TweetMeme Button – 64,617 Downloads
- Bad Behavior – 83,465 Downloads
- Twitter Tools – 273,979 Downloads
- WP Ajax Edit Comments – 144,566 Downloads
- WP-DB-Backup – 344,095 Downloads
- WordPress Related Posts – 111,997 Downloads
- WP-PostRatings – 233,025 Downloads
- Twitter for Wordpress – 182,588 Downloads
Final Thought
I could have missed a few plugins, but I think the list is already to long standing at 35. Let me know if you are using them and which ones you never liked.
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I’m not going to comment about the plugins George. I want to tell you how cool your blog looks. Love the new header and sidebar.
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@Asswass – thanks man, working hard to get things better looking
First of all I have to agree with Asswass about your blog, now on to the plugins, that’s a serious list of plugins of which, after reading through them all, I think I have used nearly all of them, though I have only a few running now, too many plugins slows everything down a tad!
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@Karen – you are correct, I also had a lot of them at one stage. As you go on you get rid of some that are not so important to you.
I was not astonished to find the All in One SEO pack as one of the most used plugins because people generally opt for Wordpress because they want better SEO and they can do anything for it.
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@tech-Freak Stuff – some of obviuos and others are somewhat of a surprise. Some of the plugins are now standard of WordPress core so they won’t be as popular now as they were in the past.
I will be checking out Cumulus and Post Ratings, I love plugins. LOVE THEM!!
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@Extreme John – I know you love them, I do too
I am surprised to WP Super Cache on 17th no….I thought it would be in Top 5
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@Compute Live – I did not put them in order, just listed the plugins. I would also like to think that it would be ranked in the top 5.
Plugins listed here really awesome, I think after couple of years, Wordpress should start delivering the package with some of them like All In One SEO and Wp Super Cache. Nice List buddy.
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@Sanjeev – I actually wrote a post about this, go have a look at Plugins I think should be part of WordPress core functionality and see what I said.
Nice list, I use a number of these already but I’ll be checking out platinum SEO and WP security scan.
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@Blaine Bullman – have a look and let me know, maybe they can a bit useful
I’m using 7 plugins from your list. BTW your blog become better and better each day
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@steppinout – thanks a lot, trying my best to achieve something nice and cool
Hey thanks for putting up this list together, i didnt know about so many plugins. Gonna use them now. Thanks
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@Amar – there are loads of plugins, but these seem to be very popular with the users
Excellent lists. I am thinking to translate it and repost in blogviet.info and linkback and source article. Hope you agree, if yes, please let me know. Thanks
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@Tinh – that’s no problem, I will allow if you link back to me.
Thanks, of course I will link back to you and at the end of my post, i will put link source to you too
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@Tinh – I just checked the site and it looks fine.
A great set of plugins there, by the amount of downloads. I have got quite a couple off that list, but a few are always a-welcome to be tested.
Hope you are well.
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@Ana – there are so many plugins, I always try a few here and there.
Hey great set of plugins here.. some of them I use on regular basis.. they are really very helpful.. and awesome amount of downloads!
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@Nehh – thanks
It’s to try a few, but don’t have too many plugins.
I am using many plugins from this list. I am surprised to see that not many security plugin made it to the top list.
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@Ricky – they are probably in the first 100. Remeber that you can do a lot of security hacks, I have seen numerous posts detailing what to do.
George,
Great list. Thanks for sharing this. I am using most of them but few of them i anew to it. I will check it out.
I am checking out your blog after some time now and I am really impressed with your correct CSS on the theme. Great. lots of changes..
have you done all the changes. the Icons, comments style, side bar. infact everything.
Hope i too have such theme…
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@Nihar – yes, I did everything. Looked at many sites and started to combine all the nice bells and whistles into one, this blog
Can i borrow some of these from your website ?
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I installed at least 15 plugins were listed. All of them are very useful. I will translate into VietNamese, and linkback to this post.
Thanks!
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@minhmeo – no problem, maybe install a translator so that other users can also read your site.
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