Plugins have been a contributing factor to the success of WordPress which now empowers 33% of all websites on the Internet. Both free and premium plugins have improved a standard WordPress website significantly especially in terms of features and sometimes UI (user interface) as well as UX (User experience).
In this series of articles, we’re going to analyze the 99 most popular commercial WordPress plugins on various matters including their business and pricing models, pricing tiers and average prices charged by these plugins.
These 99 WordPress plugins come from 14 major categories that we believe an average website would use ranging from content, forms to SEO and performance. Most websites would install plugins belonging to at least 5-8 categories highlighted in bold below while some, more than 10 if not all 14 categories.
- Page Builders
- Sliders
- Forms
- Security
- Migration & Backups
- SEO
- Optimization & Performance
- Caching
- Memberships
- E-commerce
- Opt-in
- Social
- Multilingual
- Comments & Spam
Here's the full list of plugins:
