The following popular WordPress plugins have at least 1 million active installations:
- Akismet Anti-Spam: Helps filter out spam comments and trackbacks on your website.
- Contact Form 7: A simple and flexible contact form plugin.
- Yoast SEO: A comprehensive SEO plugin to optimize your website for search engines.
- Classic Editor: Restores the previous WordPress editor and the Edit Post screen.
- WooCommerce: A powerful e-commerce plugin to sell products and services on your website.
- Jetpack by WordPress.com: Offers multiple features for security, performance, and site management.
- Elementor Website Builder: A user-friendly drag-and-drop page builder.
- Wordfence Security: A security plugin providing firewall and malware scanning.
- Google Analytics Dashboard Plugin for WordPress by MonsterInsights: Integrates your website with Google Analytics.
- UpdraftPlus WordPress Backup Plugin: A reliable plugin for website backups and restoration.
- Really Simple SSL: Helps you migrate your website to SSL with minimal effort.
- WP Super Cache: A caching plugin that improves your website’s loading speed.
- All-in-One WP Migration: A plugin for exporting and importing your WordPress website.
- WP-Optimize: Helps optimize your WordPress database, images, and cache.
- Smush Image Compression and Optimization: Optimizes and compresses images to improve site performance.
- W3 Total Cache: Another caching plugin to enhance your website’s performance.
- Duplicate Post: Allows you to duplicate posts and pages with a single click.
- Redirection: A plugin for managing 301 redirections, tracking 404 errors, and tidying up loose ends.
- The Events Calendar: A plugin to create and manage events on your WordPress site.
- Advanced Custom Fields: A plugin for adding custom fields to your WordPress content.
- Regenerate Thumbnails: Allows you to regenerate thumbnail sizes for image attachments.
- Disable Comments: Lets you disable comments on your entire website or specific post types.
- Page Builder by SiteOrigin: Another drag-and-drop page builder for creating responsive page layouts.
- MetaSlider: A user-friendly plugin to create responsive image sliders.
- WPForms Lite: A user-friendly drag-and-drop form builder plugin.
- Custom Post Type UI: A plugin to create and manage custom post types and taxonomies.
- MailChimp for WordPress: Integrates your WordPress site with MailChimp to manage email subscriptions.
- Loco Translate: A translation plugin to manage and customize translations for your WordPress site.
- Social Icons Widget & Block by WPZOOM: Adds social media icons to your website.
- All In One SEO: Another comprehensive SEO plugin for optimizing your website.