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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
20.8
552,072,102
May 29, 2023
6.2.2
Jetpack – WP Security, Backup, Speed, & Growth
Improve your WP security with powerful one-click tools like backup, WAF, and malware scan. Get essential free tools including stats, CDN and social sh …
jetpack
home
12.2
339,097,069
June 6, 2023
6.2.2
Akismet Anti-Spam: 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
5.1
285,209,865
April 5, 2023
6.2.2
Wordfence Security – Firewall, Malware Scan, and Login Security
Firewall, Malware Scanner, Two Factor Auth and Comprehensive Security Features, powered by our 24 hour team. Make security a priority with Wordfence.
wordfence
home
7.9.3
290,371,645
May 31, 2023
6.2.2
Contact Form 7
Just another contact form plugin. Simple but flexible.
contact-form-7
home
5.7.7
277,404,814
May 31, 2023
6.2.2
WooCommerce
Everything you need to launch an online store in days and keep it growing for years. From your first sale to millions in revenue, Woo is with you.
woocommerce
home
7.7.2
250,575,306
June 1, 2023
6.2.2
All in One SEO – Best WordPress SEO Plugin – Easily Improve SEO Rankings & Increase Traffic
The original WordPress SEO plugin. Improve your WordPress SEO rankings and traffic with our comprehensive SEO tools and smart SEO optimizations!
all-in-one-seo-pack
home
4.3.9
119,000,152
June 8, 2023
6.2.2
MonsterInsights – Google Analytics Dashboard for WordPress (Website Stats Made Easy)
The best free Google Analytics plugin for WordPress. See how visitors find and use your website, so you can grow your business.
google-analytics-for-wordpress
home
8.15
153,125,912
May 22, 2023
6.2.2
Elementor Website Builder – More than Just a Page 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
3.13.4
294,912,928
May 28, 2023
6.2.2
Contact Form by WPForms – Drag & Drop Form Builder for WordPress
The best WordPress contact form plugin. Drag & Drop online form builder to create beautiful contact forms, payment forms, & other custom forms …
wpforms-lite
home
1.8.2.1
153,240,597
June 7, 2023
6.2.2
WP Super Cache
A very fast caching engine for WordPress that produces static html files.
wp-super-cache
home
1.9.4
47,600,440
March 27, 2023
6.2.2
UpdraftPlus WordPress Backup Plugin
Backup and restoration made easy. Complete backups; manual or scheduled (backup to Dropbox, S3, Google Drive, Rackspace, FTP, SFTP, email + others).
updraftplus
home
1.23.4
98,299,544
May 16, 2023
6.2.2
WordPress Importer
Import posts, pages, comments, custom fields, categories, tags and more from a WordPress export file.
wordpress-importer
home
0.8.1
45,726,291
April 28, 2023
6.2.2
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
3.36
37,582,117
May 10, 2023
6.2.2
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
2.23.0
45,268,516
May 30, 2023
6.2.2
XML Sitemap Generator for Google
Generate multiple types of sitemaps to improve SEO and get your website indexed quickly.
google-sitemap-generator
home
4.1.11
34,795,255
May 21, 2023
6.2.2
Popup Builder by OptinMonster – WordPress Popups for Optins, Email Newsletters and Lead Generation
🤩 Make popups & optin forms to get more email newsletter subscribers, leads, and sales – #1 most popular popup builder plugin! 🚀
optinmonster
home
2.13.4
86,901,577
June 6, 2023
6.2.2

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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