Trending WordPress Plugins

WordPress.org contains several ancient plugins which are not so popular anymore. It is hard to see which plugin is trending and which one loses more and more users. For example, WP Super Cache was the most popular cache plugin, but it is losing users while other cache plugins are trending.

Active Install Growth

A few months ago WordPress.org started to display the Active Install Growth diagram in the advanced section of the plugin’s page. Our site collects the active install growth metrics for each plugin and computes how much the number of active users has increased in the last 4 weeks. The “Growth” column displays this information.

Why Active Install count is not enough anymore

When you pick the right plugin for the task, you might make the mistake to check the active installation count only. The plugin growth is a better indicator as you can see how much the number of active users has increased. If you see huge active install growth you can expect:

  • fewer compatibility issues with other plugins
  • a bigger community who can help you
  • better support
  • more frequent updates and improvements

Top 500 Trending WordPress Plugins



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3,892 plugins matched your criteria.

Rank Plugin Category Growth Active Install Growth %
#101 All in One SEO SEO +9,968 2,000,000 +0.50%
#102 MalCare Security – Free Malware Scanner, Protection & Security for WordPress +9,957 90,000 +12.44%
#103 Breadcrumb NavXT Navigation +9,830 900,000 +1.10%
#104 Head, Footer and Post Injections +9,697 300,000 +3.34%
#105 Custom Fonts +9,318 200,000 +4.89%
#106 Gutenberg Blocks by Kadence Blocks – Page Builder Features Gutenberg +9,316 100,000 +10.27%
#107 WooCommerce PDF Invoices & Packing Slips WooCommerce +9,122 300,000 +3.14%
#108 Simple Custom CSS and JS +9,121 300,000 +3.14%
#109 Ninja Forms Contact Form – The Drag and Drop Form Builder for WordPress Form Builder +8,949 1,000,000 +0.90%
#110 Regenerate Thumbnails Misc +8,948 1,000,000 +0.90%
#111 Custom Login Page Customizer | LoginPress +8,940 200,000 +4.68%
#112 Flamingo Form Builder +8,915 600,000 +1.51%
#113 Facebook for WordPress +8,898 500,000 +1.81%
#114 HubSpot – CRM, Email Marketing, Live Chat, Forms & Analytics Form Builder +8,562 200,000 +4.47%
#115 Forminator – Contact Form, Payment Form & Custom Form Builder Form Builder +8,515 100,000 +9.31%
#116 SEO 2021 by Squirrly (Smart Strategy) SEO +8,416 80,000 +11.76%
#117 ReCaptcha v2 for Contact Form 7 +8,371 200,000 +4.37%
#118 BackWPup – WordPress Backup Plugin Migration +8,337 700,000 +1.21%
#119 SiteGuard WP Plugin Security +8,255 300,000 +2.83%
#120 Formidable Form Builder – Contact Form, Survey & Quiz Forms Plugin for WordPress Form Builder +8,254 300,000 +2.83%
#121 Easy Table of Contents +8,181 200,000 +4.26%
#122 WooCommerce Shipping & Tax WooCommerce +7,957 1,000,000 +0.80%
#123 TablePress +7,949 800,000 +1.00%
#124 WordPress Real Cookie Banner: GDPR (DSGVO) & ePrivacy Cookie Consent +7,885 9,000 +707.17%
#125 Advanced noCaptcha & invisible Captcha (v2 & v3) +7,801 200,000 +4.06%
#126 WooCommerce Payments +7,758 60,000 +14.85%
#127 Happy Addons for Elementor +7,704 100,000 +8.35%
#128 Max Mega Menu Navigation +7,510 400,000 +1.91%
#129 Category Order and Taxonomy Terms Order Admin +7,429 500,000 +1.51%
#130 AMP AMP +7,429 500,000 +1.51%
#131 Post SMTP Mailer/Email Log Email +7,422 200,000 +3.85%
#132 Translate WordPress with GTranslate +7,422 200,000 +3.85%
#133 Crowdsignal Forms +7,403 40,000 +22.71%
#134 Gutenberg Blocks – Ultimate Addons for Gutenberg Gutenberg +7,381 300,000 +2.52%
#135 Floating Chat Widget: Contact Icons, Messages, Telegram, Email, SMS, Call Button – Chaty +7,380 70,000 +11.79%
#136 Redis Object Cache +7,379 80,000 +10.16%
#137 Post Types Order Admin +7,145 600,000 +1.21%
#138 TranslatePress – Translate Multilingual sites +7,069 100,000 +7.61%
#139 Ultimate Member – User Profile, User Registration, Login & Membership Plugin Membership +7,040 200,000 +3.65%
#140 Layout Grid Block +7,016 90,000 +8.45%
#141 Sticky Header Effects for Elementor Elementor +6,978 100,000 +7.50%
#142 Marketing Toolkit by OptinMonster – Popups, Email Optin Forms & Newsletter Subscribers Marketing +6,952 1,000,000 +0.70%
#143 Hide My WP Ghost – Security Plugin +6,821 60,000 +12.83%
#144 Page Optimize +6,812 80,000 +9.31%
#145 301 Redirects – Easy Redirect Manager +6,794 100,000 +7.29%
#146 Contact Form Plugin – WP Fluent Forms – Fastest Contact Form Builder Plugin for WordPress +6,742 60,000 +12.66%
#147 MainWP Child – Securely connects sites to the MainWP WordPress Manager Dashboard +6,728 400,000 +1.71%
#148 Stripe For WooCommerce +6,646 40,000 +19.93%
#149 Gutenberg Blocks and Template Library by Otter +6,608 90,000 +7.92%
#150 WebP Converter for Media +6,469 50,000 +14.86%
#151 Cerber Security, Anti-spam & Malware Scan Security +6,465 200,000 +3.34%
#152 Disable Comments +6,455 40,000 +19.24%
#153 Backup & Migration – WPvivid Backup and Migration Plugin +6,428 100,000 +6.87%
#154 The Events Calendar Events +6,367 800,000 +0.80%
#155 Unyson Page Builder +6,273 200,000 +3.24%
#156 WP Multibyte Patch Misc +6,272 900,000 +0.70%
#157 All 404 Redirect to Homepage +6,272 200,000 +3.24%
#158 Honeypot for Contact Form 7 Contact Form 7 +6,217 300,000 +2.12%
#159 PDF Embedder +6,217 300,000 +2.12%
#160 Ajax Search for WooCommerce WooCommerce +6,151 100,000 +6.55%
#161 NitroPack +6,144 30,000 +25.75%
#162 Custom Twitter Feeds (Tweets Widget) +5,965 100,000 +6.34%
#163 WP Statistics Statistics +5,954 500,000 +1.21%
#164 Header and Footer Scripts +5,888 200,000 +3.03%
#165 Header Footer Code Manager +5,873 100,000 +6.24%
#166 Supreme Modules Lite – Divi Theme, Extra Theme and Divi Builder +5,801 80,000 +7.82%
#167 Meta Tag Manager +5,800 80,000 +7.82%
#168 Favicon by RealFaviconGenerator +5,696 200,000 +2.93%
#169 Smash Balloon Social Post Feed +5,695 200,000 +2.93%
#170 WordPress.com Editing Toolkit +5,688 100,000 +6.03%
#171 Spam protection, AntiSpam, FireWall by CleanTalk Security +5,595 100,000 +5.93%
#172 Widget for Google Reviews +5,582 80,000 +7.50%
#173 Hello Dolly Misc +5,573 800,000 +0.70%
#174 Broken Link Checker SEO +5,572 700,000 +0.80%
#175 White Label CMS +5,503 200,000 +2.83%
#176 AddToAny Share Buttons Social +5,461 500,000 +1.10%
#177 WebP Express +5,409 100,000 +5.72%
#178 Health Check & Troubleshooting +5,309 200,000 +2.73%
#179 Asset CleanUp: Page Speed Booster +5,222 100,000 +5.51%
#180 CMP – Coming Soon & Maintenance Plugin by NiteoThemes +5,221 100,000 +5.51%
#181 Elementor Custom Skin Elementor +5,203 70,000 +8.03%
#182 reSmush.it : the only free Image Optimizer & compress plugin Optimize +5,128 100,000 +5.41%
#183 Password Protected +5,116 200,000 +2.63%
#184 Post Duplicator +5,116 200,000 +2.63%
#185 Unlimited Elements for Elementor +5,108 60,000 +9.31%
#186 Child Theme Configurator +5,046 300,000 +1.71%
#187 Table Rate for WooCommerce by Flexible Shipping WooCommerce +4,952 90,000 +5.82%
#188 MailPoet – emails and newsletters in WordPress +4,922 200,000 +2.52%
#189 Customizer Export/Import +4,922 200,000 +2.52%
#190 Remove Footer Credit +4,908 80,000 +6.54%
#191 Advanced AJAX Product Filters +4,869 40,000 +13.86%
#192 Funnel Builder by CartFlows – Create High Converting Sales Funnels For WordPress +4,847 100,000 +5.09%
#193 FileBird – WordPress Media Library Folders & File Manager +4,847 80,000 +6.45%
#194 Slider, Gallery, and Carousel by MetaSlider – Responsive WordPress Plugin Slider +4,781 800,000 +0.60%
#195 PixelYourSite – Your smart PIXEL (TAG) Manager WooCommerce +4,753 100,000 +4.99%
#196 Admin Menu Editor +4,752 300,000 +1.61%
#197 Pretty Links – Link Management, Branding, Tracking & Sharing Plugin +4,751 300,000 +1.61%
#198 Premium SEO Pack – WordPress SEO Plugin SEO +4,738 20,000 +31.04%
#199 Popup Builder – Responsive WordPress Pop up – Subscription & Newsletter +4,728 200,000 +2.42%
#200 Page Builder: PageLayer – Drag and Drop website builder +4,728 200,000 +2.42%