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:
SEO
- Premium SEO Pack
- Yoast SEO
- All in One SEO
- The SEO Framework
- Squirrly SEO
- SEO Optimized Images
- SEOPress Pro
Gallery
- DFactory
- NextGEN Pro
- Jetpack
- Envira
- Modula
- FooGallery
- Photo Gallery
Memberships
- S2Member
- MemberPress
- Restrict Content Pro
- Paid Memberships Pro
- MemberMouse
- WooCommerce Memberships
Optin
- Thrive Leads
- Newsletter
- OptinMonster
- Bloom
- WP Subscribe
- Ninja Popups
- MailOptin
Mutilingual
- WPML
- Polylang Pro
- Gtranslate
- TranslatePress
- Loco Translate
- MutilingualPress
- GLT Premium
Migration & Backup
- Updraft Plus
- Duplicator
- ManageWP
- WP Migration DB Pro
- BackWPup
- BackupBuddy
- Vaultpress
Sliders
- Masterslider
- Smart Slider 3
- Slider Reverlution
- Soliloquy
- MetaSlider
- Nivo Slider
- Smooth Slider
E-commerce
- WooCommerce
- EDD
- Jigoshop
- Shopp
- WPecommerce
- BigCommerce
- Ecwid Ecommerce
Social
- Social Warfare
- Sumo Me
- Instagram Feed
- Revive Old Post
- Social Pug
- WordPress to Buffer
- Nextend Social Plugin
Caching
- WP Rocket
- CometCache
- Borlabs Cache
- WordPress Cache Enable
- LiteSpeed Cache
- WP Speed of Light
- Swift Performance
Forms
- Ninja Forms
- WPForms
- Formidable
- Gravity Forms
- weForms
- WPEverest
- QuForms
Security
- Cerber Sucurity
- Loginizer
- iThemes
- Sucuri
- Easy Updates Manager
- Sitelock
- Malcare
Page Builders
- WP Bakery Page Builder
- Elementor
- SiteOrigin
- Beaver Builder
- Visual Composer
- Themify
- Thrive Architect
Optimization & Performance
- Compress JPEG & PNG images
- WP Optimize
- Smush Image Compression
- Autoptimize
- Imagify Image Optimizer
- EWWW Image Optimizer
- ShortPixel Image Optimizer