UPDATED: July 3, 2022
WordPress is used by millions of users for creating their website for various purposes from creating a blog to setting up an eCommerce website. There are numerous features that makes WordPress as the most preferred CMS like ready-made theme, plugins for adding any features, user friendly etc. The developers behind WordPress cannot incorporate all functions in the kernel, so therefore it is possible with plugins to integrate all possible functions in a easy and simple way.
The best place to find great and safe plugins are in – WordPress Plugin Directory. Therefore I have collected the 10 most downloaded plugins of all time from the WordPress Plugin Directory. I guess that many of the plugins are pretty familiar, and you use some of them on your own blog.. Anyway… Download, install and enjoy …
1. Yoast
Yoast SEO plugin is powerful and most famous plugin for SEO purpose. The plugin was launched in the year 2008, plugis has over 5 million active installations and helps in providing complete SEO for your WordPress site. It has both free as well as premium versions and can be ideal choice even for those who are freshers in the field of SEO.
Compatible up to: 5.8 or higher, Last Updated: June 2022, Downloads: 5+ million
2. Akismet
Akismet is a “must have” plugin! Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not and lets you review the spam under your blog’s “Comments” admin screen.
Compatible up to: 5 or higher, Last Updated: June 2022, Downloads: 5+ million
3. Contact Form 7
Contact Form 7 well working contact form plugin. It is Simple but flexible and do the work! You can use and manage multiple contact forms, plus you can customize the form and the mail contents flexibly with simple markup.
Compatible up to: 5.9 or higher, Last Updated: June 2022, Downloads: 5+ million
4. Contact Form by WPForms
Contact form by WPForms provider drag and drop contact form builder which helps in easily setting up a form. It takes just a few minutes to setup a form for various purposes like contact forms, feedback form, subscription forms, payment forms etc.
Compatible up to: 502, Last Updated: June 2022, Downloads: 5+ million
5. All in One SEO Pack
All in One SEO Pack is one of the best SEO plugin aroundd that automatically optimizes your WordPress blog for Search Engines (Search Engine Optimization). Some of the features are – Support for Custom Post Types, Advanced Canonical URLs, Automatically optimizes your titles for search engines and much more.
Compatible up to: 4.9 or higher, Last Updated: June 2022, Downloads: 3+ million
6. MonsterInsights
MonsterInsights allows you to track your WordPress site easily with lots of metadata such as, views per author & category, automatic tracking of outbound clicks and pageviews. It helps in tracking all much needed data one needed to grow business and considered as the best google analytics plugin.
Compatible up to: 4.8.0 or higher, Last Updated: June 2022, Downloads: 3+ million
7. WP Super Cache
WP Super Cache is a plugin that generates static html files from your dynamic WordPress blog. After a html file is generated your webserver will serve that file instead of processing the comparatively heavier and more expensive WordPress PHP scripts.
Compatible up to: 3.2 or higher, Last Updated: June 2022, Downloads: 2+ million
8. Google XML Sitemaps
Google XML Sitemaps generate a special XML sitemap which will help search engines like Google, Bing, Yahoo etc, to better index your blog. The plugin supports all kinds of WordPress generated pages as well as custom URLs.
Compatible up to: 3.3 or higher, Last Updated: June 2022, Downloads: 1+ million
9. NextGEN Gallery
NextGEN Gallery is one of the most used plugins for images and is a full integrated Image Gallery plugin for WordPress with a slideshow option.
Compatible up to: 5.5.4 or higher, Last Updated: April 2022, Downloads: 600000+
10. WP Statistics
WP Statistics is simple, concise stats with no additional load on your server. Future upgrades to WordPress.com Stats will only be available in Jetpack. Jetpack connects your blog to the WordPress.com cloud, enabling awesome features.
Compatible up to: 4.4 or higher, Last Updated: June 2022, Downloads: 600000+