Most downloaded WordPress plugins ever
Best Design Options has compiled a list of the 10 most downloaded WordPress plugins of all time. The data is readily available at the WordPress plugin repository, but this post prioritizes download history instead of rating, which the WP site does.
- All in One SEO Pack
- Akismet
- Google XML Sitemaps
- NextGEN Gallery
- Contact Form 7
- WordPress.com Stats
- WP Super Cache
- Sociable
- Google Analyticator
- Google Analytics for Wordpress
Three Google-related plugins, two of which are for the same purpose—site analytics, but both were beaten by WordPress.com’s own stats service and plugin. Contact Form 7 and NextGEN Gallery are the most popular contact form and gallery plugins, respectively.
WordPress Plugin: Akismet 2.2.1 with Stats
Our favorite spam-fighting plugin Akismet has a new version, now with statistics:
Spam most people know as the unwanted commercial comments on their blog, its counterpart we call ham to indicate legitimate comments. On the Akismet mistakes side, missed spam is pretty self-explanitory, but a false positive is what it’s called when we incorrectly identify a legitimate comment as spam. (Which hopefully happens exceedingly rarely.) Also, we’re sorry about the vegetarian thing.
All that spam and ham getting you hungry yet? To top it all off, there’s a “Yummy Pie” chart that summarizes your blog’s commenting history. You can find your Akismet Stats beside the link to your Dashboard.
