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October 15, 2019 by Bobbing Wide

A few useless facts about WordPress

Some useless facts that might help create an unbelievable “Did you know?” fact about WordPress such as

One percent of WordPress plugins deliver blocks.

Herb Miller, based on some (not so flaky) evidence below.

Figures from Oct 2019

Plugins and Gutenberg blocks

  • There are 54,896 plugins. https://wordpress.org/plugins/
  • Over 400 plugins provide Gutenberg blocks or extend blocks. https://wordpress.org/plugins/browse/blocks/
  • These are the curated plugins.
  • From a list of 53,258 blocks, I identified 551 plugins as potentially delivering blocks or somehow enhancing WordPress blocks.
  • That’s 150 more than the curated list.
  • Assuming each plugin provides 8 blocks per plugin that’s 4,500 blocks.

For more information see bobbingwide/oik-loader#1.

Some other miscellany

WordPress has been around for 16 years.

In October 2019, the new block editor was less than one year old.

  • WordPress 5.2 has been downloaded over 76 million times. https://wordpress.org/download/counter
  • The Classic editor plugins is installed on 5 million sites.   https://wordpress.org/plugins/classic-editor/
    Nearly 90K sites are using Gutenberg v6.4 or higher. https://wordpress.org/plugins/gutenberg/advanced/
  • In My Honest Opinion: Themes should not deliver blocks.

Top 17 or so WordPress plugins

All these plugins have been downloaded over 25 million times.

Plugin name and description Plugin links Version, total downloads, last update, tested
Yoast SEO
Improve your WordPress SEO: Write better content and have a fully optimized WordPress site using the Yoast SEO plugin.
wordpress-seo
home
16.1.1
319,083,552
April 6, 2021
5.7
Jetpack – WP Security, Backup, Speed, & Growth
The best WP plugin for backup, anti spam, malware scan, CDN, AMP, social, search, contact form, and integrations with Woo, Facebook, Instagram, Google
jetpack
home
9.6
220,862,309
April 5, 2021
5.7
Akismet Spam Protection
The best anti-spam protection to block spam comments and spam in a contact form. The most trusted antispam solution for WordPress and WooCommerce.
akismet
home
4.1.9
195,283,305
March 2, 2021
5.7
Wordfence Security – Firewall & Malware Scan
Secure your website with the most comprehensive WordPress security plugin. Firewall, malware scan, blocking, live traffic, login security & more.
wordfence
home
7.5.2
191,548,053
March 24, 2021
5.7
Contact Form 7
Just another contact form plugin. Simple but flexible.
contact-form-7
home
5.4
177,211,019
February 24, 2021
5.7
WooCommerce
WooCommerce is the world’s most popular open-source eCommerce solution.
woocommerce
home
5.2.0
130,879,748
April 13, 2021
5.7
All in One SEO
The original WordPress SEO plugin. Improve your WordPress SEO rankings with our comprehensive All in One SEO plugin and toolkit.
all-in-one-seo-pack
home
4.0.17
76,383,318
March 17, 2021
5.7
Google Analytics Dashboard Plugin for WordPress by MonsterInsights
The best Google Analytics plugin for WordPress. See how visitors find and use your website, so you can keep them coming back.
google-analytics-for-wordpress
home
7.17.0
92,705,104
March 23, 2021
5.7
Elementor Website Builder
The Elementor Website Builder has it all: drag and drop page builder, pixel perfect design, mobile responsive editing, and more. Get started now!
elementor
home
3.1.4
101,607,503
March 10, 2021
5.7
Contact Form by WPForms – Drag & Drop Form Builder for WordPress
The best WordPress contact form plugin. Drag & Drop online form builder that helps you create beautiful contact forms with just a few clicks.
wpforms-lite
home
1.6.6
66,170,904
April 1, 2021
5.7
WP Super Cache
A very fast caching engine for WordPress that produces static html files.
wp-super-cache
home
1.7.2
35,533,414
March 15, 2021
5.7
UpdraftPlus WordPress Backup Plugin
Backup and restoration made easy. Complete backups; manual or scheduled (backup to Dropbox, S3, Google…
updraftplus
home
1.16.53
52,348,066
April 5, 2021
5.7
WordPress Importer
Import posts, pages, comments, custom fields, categories, tags and more from a WordPress export file.
wordpress-importer
home
0.7
35,610,862
April 4, 2020
5.4.4
WordPress Gallery Plugin – NextGEN Gallery
The most popular WordPress gallery plugin and one of the most popular plugins of all time with over 31 million downloads.
nextgen-gallery
home
3.9.2
32,207,637
April 7, 2021
5.7.0
Page Builder by SiteOrigin
Build responsive page layouts using the widgets you know and love using this simple drag and drop page builder.
siteorigin-panels
home
2.11.8
31,529,591
March 24, 2021
5.7
XML Sitemaps
This plugin will improve SEO by helping search enginess better index your site using sitemaps.
google-sitemap-generator
home
4.1.1
28,481,414
March 11, 2021
5.7
Marketing Toolkit by OptinMonster – Popups, Email Optin Forms & Newsletter Subscribers
Create popups, opt-in forms, & floating bars to get more email newsletter subscribers, leads, and increase sales conversion – #1 marketing popup p …
optinmonster
home
2.3.1
48,976,165
April 2, 2021
5.7

WordPress SEO is the first plugin to reach over 200 million downloads.

Herb Miller, 17th October 2019

For more information see Top 12 WordPress plugins – October 2019.

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