What is the Most Popular WordPress Plugin?

Have you ever wondered what’s the most popular WordPress plugin ever? Here’s a chart of the 15 most popular WordPress plugins downloaded descending by the download count:

1. Akismet – 28.128 million downloads
2. Contact Form 7 – 24.304 million downloads
3. All In One SEO – 21.853 million
4. Google Sitemap Generator – 16.477 million
5. WordPress SEO – 15.928 million
6. Jetpack – 14.587 million
7. NextGen Gallery – 11.991 million
8. WordPress Importer – 9.635 million
9. Google Analytics for WordPress – 8.159 million
10. WP Super Cache – 6.869 million
11. WooCommerce – 6.445 million
12. WP Page Navi – 5.432 million
13. WordFence – 4.828 million
14. Tiny MCE Advanced – 4.788 million
15. W3 Total Cache – 4.491 million

(This data is from March 2015)

So, if you are a theme developer and you want to develop really popular plugin you should build some poplar functionality which is required for almost every website such as contact form, google analytics code, page navigation, etc.

Note: If you use some of our premium themes, you don’t need to use the Contact Form 7 form, because all of the themes comes with page template for contact form. Also, you don’t need to use WP Page Navi (there’s built-in page navigation in all of our themes), and Google Analytics for WordPress (in Amin Panel > Appearance > Theme Options > General there’s a field to add your google analytics code).