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Top 10 Most Downloaded WordPress Plugins

Posted by John Saddington on Jul 29, 2010

There are a lot of great and wonderful Plugins for WordPress out there but there’s just something about sheer volume of popularity, right?

I mean, people wouldn’t be downloading them if they weren’t actually good, right?

Here’s a list of the top 10 most downloaded WordPress plugins:

  1. Akismet
  2. All in One SEO Pack
  3. Google XML Sitemaps
  4. Contact Form 7
  5. NextGEN Gallery
  6. WordPress.com Stats
  7. AddToAny: Share/Bookmark/Email Button
  8. Google Analyticator
  9. WP-PageNavi
  10. WPtouch iPhone Theme

The 8BIT Network uses Akismet, our own XML Sitemaps (based #3), WordPress.com Stats.

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John Saddington

John is the Chief Editor @ The 8BIT Network and Senior Blog Junkie here at ChurchIT. He enjoys Triple-Tall Americanos, developing Wordpress Themes, and a few other Random Things.

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9 Responses to “Top 10 Most Downloaded WordPress Plugins”

  1. Phillip Gibb
    Thursday, July 29, 2010 at 9:24 am

    no caching plugins, hmmm

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  2. Daniel Snyder
    Thursday, July 29, 2010 at 9:27 am

    Thanks for turning me on to the WPTouch IPhone Theme plugin, really needed that one. Fantastic list by the way, I think I have almost all of those plugins running on my blog.

    Reply
  3. Ryan
    Thursday, July 29, 2010 at 9:44 am

    It’s pretty standard for me to use Akismet, All in one SEO and Contact Form 7 on almost any site I design. Hah…I should probably figure out a way to do the second two without a plugin huh? ;) Just so much easier!

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  4. Rodlie
    Thursday, July 29, 2010 at 9:57 am

    This is an excellent list, John! Thanks…..Quick question, though: if someone is using the Standard Theme, do you still recommend they install the SEO pack? Is that something every blog should install regardless?

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    • John Saddington
      Thursday, July 29, 2010 at 10:02 am

      no. we don’t use that plugin with our sites or with standardtheme installs.

      Reply
    • John Saddington
      Thursday, July 29, 2010 at 10:02 am

      you can use it though, if you’d like, but we don’t.

      Reply
  5. PatrckB
    Thursday, July 29, 2010 at 9:58 am

    When you say: “our own XML Sitemaps” is that built into standard.theme or is it a separate add-on plug-in you hacked?

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