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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
20.0
509,181,116
January 24, 2023
6.1.1
Jetpack – WP Security, Backup, Speed, & Growth
Improve your WP security with powerful one-click tools like backup and malware scan. Get essential free tools including stats, CDN and social sharing.
jetpack
home
11.7.1
311,743,780
January 16, 2023
6.1.1
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
5.0.2
274,179,726
December 1, 2022
6.1.1
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
7.8.2
273,794,946
January 27, 2023
6.1.1
Contact Form 7
Just another contact form plugin. Simple but flexible.
contact-form-7
home
5.7.3
257,718,730
January 26, 2023
6.1.1
WooCommerce
WooCommerce is the world’s most popular open-source eCommerce solution.
woocommerce
home
7.3.0
229,751,919
January 13, 2023
6.1.1
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! πŸš€
all-in-one-seo-pack
home
4.2.9
108,820,755
January 21, 2023
6.1.1
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
8.12.1
143,285,672
January 16, 2023
6.1.1
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
3.10.2
245,553,194
January 29, 2023
6.1.1
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 + custom forms in minutes.
wpforms-lite
home
1.7.9.1
135,695,284
January 11, 2023
6.1.1
WP Super Cache
A very fast caching engine for WordPress that produces static html files.
wp-super-cache
home
1.9.2
45,386,594
December 14, 2022
6.1.1
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
1.22.24
91,393,476
December 14, 2022
6.1.1
WordPress Importer
Import posts, pages, comments, custom fields, categories, tags and more from a WordPress export file.
wordpress-importer
home
0.8
42,898,776
September 29, 2022
6.1.1
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
3.33
36,827,948
January 18, 2023
6.1.1
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
2.20.4
43,414,904
January 16, 2023
6.1.1
XML Sitemaps
This plugin will improve SEO by helping search enginess better index your site using sitemaps.
google-sitemap-generator
home
4.1.7
32,389,443
November 29, 2022
6.0.3
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! πŸš€
optinmonster
home
2.11.2
78,759,897
January 18, 2023
6.1.1

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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