Top 20 Most Popular WordPress Plugins

Looking for a plugin for your blog? Check this list.

I made a list based on sheer number of downloads with a quirk - the plugin has to be last updated this year to ensure the support is ongoing.

Num PluginDownloadsUpdated
1Akismet8,327,65815-Jun-10
2All in One SEO Pack5,203,6423-Jun-10
3Google XML Sitemaps3,853,50829-May-10
4Contact Form 71,972,63025-May-10
5NextGEN Gallery1,931,26714-Jun-10
6WordPress.com Stats1,618,02616-Jun-10
7AddToAny: Share/Bookmark/Email Button959,46616-Jun-10
8Google Analyticator913,99327-May-10
9WP-PageNavi844,34919-Apr-10
10WPtouch iPhone Theme837,61721-May-10
11WP e-Commerce609,10515-Jun-10
12Twitter Tools554,1141-May-10
13Yet Another Related Posts Plugin542,7586-Jun-10
14GD Star Rating512,60220-May-10
15Simple Tags495,6497-Feb-10
16Easy AdSense489,25120-May-10
17Smart YouTube467,6274-Jun-10
18Page Flip Image Gallery463,4609-Jun-10
19SEO Smart Links400,3902-Jun-10
20Lightbox 2373,25210-Feb-10

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12 Comments

  1. Phyllis sa-technology.com
    1 week ago

    Very nice list of plugins. Thanks for sharing them.

  2. Leon http
    Jul 14th, 2010

    Thanks.
    It is very interesting, I'm using 13 plugins of this top 20 list.

  3. plant lover plantpedia.blogspot.com
    Jul 13th, 2010

    Thanks,..those a nice pugins, i'll try its in my wp blog!

  4. Fashion Girl oldfashiongirl.com
    Jul 10th, 2010

    i also like t20,because it is not just a game,its like a party,fashion is also important.

  5. Shubert abode-of-books.blogspot.com
    Jul 9th, 2010

    Interesting..
    5,203,642 downloads for the All in One SEO Pack.. Nice :)

    But still wondering why just 959,466 for the AddToAny: Share/Bookmark/Email Button tool.

  6. internet and network marketing tutorial ilmu-marketing.com
    Jul 6th, 2010

    I found your article very interesting, do you still have another article? maybe we can share the article

  7. jimmy41687 makemoneyonline.pk
    Jun 25th, 2010

    Well to tell u the truth to you guy i have read many article of who the plugin of the wordpress make their site much more slow and even not anyone can extent these plugin but hey as long as you guys are happy with the plugins no problem right.

  8. Nathalie officemagenta.net
    Jun 20th, 2010

    Thank you folks :)
    Very useful.

    P.S. Can you disable this "comment must be 7 words long"?

    • Vladimir prelovac.com
      Jun 20th, 2010

      Ah it proved to be very effective against spammers

  9. Igor
    Jun 17th, 2010

    Thanks.. very helpful.. will use when moving our blog to WordPress..

    Brian makes a good point, should have linked them.. i had to google each one.

  10. Brian
    Jun 17th, 2010

    You should link to the ones that are your plugins that are in the list.

    • Vladimir prelovac.com
      Jun 17th, 2010

      You are right, corrected

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