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Daily rankings and insights for every theme and plugin on WordPress.org.

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8,403themes tracked
4,535plugins tracked
Dailysnapshots since 2024
Biggest moves this week
7-day ranking movement · 10K+ installs only
Themes
▲ Trending up
▲ 10 Nisarg 10K+ installs
▲ 8 Parabola 10K+ installs
▲ 7 MH Magazine lite 10K+ installs
▲ 7 Shapely 10K+ installs
▼ Trending down
▼ 11 Envo Royal 10K+ installs
▼ 3 Vantage 30K+ installs
▼ 3 Raft 10K+ installs
▼ 3 Blogus 10K+ installs

Top Free Themes

by active installs
  1. 1 Twenty Twenty-Five 1M+
  2. 2 Hello Elementor 1M+
  3. 3 Astra 1M+
  4. 4 Twenty Twenty-Four 500K+
  5. 5 Kadence 500K+
  6. 6 OceanWP 500K+
  7. 7 GeneratePress 500K+
  8. 8 Twenty Twenty-Three 300K+
  9. 9 Blocksy 300K+
  10. 10 Twenty Seventeen 300K+
  11. 11 Extendable 200K+
  12. 12 Twenty Twenty-One 200K+
  13. 13 Neve 200K+
  14. 14 Twenty Twenty 200K+
  15. 15 Hello Biz 100K+
  16. 16 Twenty Twenty-Two 100K+
  17. 17 Royal Elementor Kit 100K+
  18. 18 PopularFX 100K+
  19. 19 Lightning 100K+
  20. 20 Twenty Nineteen 90K+
View the full themes top →

Top Free Plugins

by active installs
  1. 1 Elementor 10M+
  2. 2 Yoast SEO 10M+
  3. 3 Contact Form 7 10M+
  4. 4 Classic Editor 9M+
  5. 5 LiteSpeed Cache 7M+
  6. 6 WooCommerce 7M+
  7. 7 Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection 5M+
  8. 8 Site Kit by Google 5M+
  9. 9 WPForms Lite 5M+
  10. 10 All-in-One WP Migration and Backup 5M+
  11. 11 Wordfence Security 5M+
  12. 12 WP Mail SMTP 4M+
  13. 13 Rank Math SEO 4M+
  14. 14 Yoast Duplicate Post 3M+
  15. 15 UpdraftPlus - Backup/Restore 3M+
  16. 16 Duplicate Page 3M+
  17. 17 Really Simple Security 3M+
  18. 18 Jetpack 3M+
  19. 19 WPCode Lite 3M+
  20. 20 Hostinger Tools 3M+
View the full plugins top →

Top Premium Themes

by live sites
  1. 1 Astra Pro 3.4M sites
  2. 2 Divi 2.3M sites
  3. 3 Flatsome 907.2K sites
  4. 4 Avada 627.6K sites
  5. 5 OceanWP Pro 516.5K sites
  6. 6 Kadence Pro 509.7K sites
  7. 7 Blocksy Pro 504.6K sites
  8. 8 WoodMart 370.4K sites
  9. 9 Enfold 296.5K sites
  10. 10 BeTheme 291.1K sites
  11. 11 Salient 266.5K sites
  12. 12 GeneratePress Premium 259.5K sites
  13. 13 Neve Pro 259.1K sites
  14. 14 StudioPress / Genesis 203.4K sites
  15. 15 The7 199.9K sites
  16. 16 Bridge 137.6K sites
  17. 17 Impreza 129.8K sites
  18. 18 JupiterX 108.4K sites
  19. 19 Newspaper 108K sites
  20. 20 ThemeGrill 101.2K sites
View the full premium themes top →

Top Premium Plugins

by live sites
  1. 1 Yoast SEO Premium 10.7M sites
  2. 2 Elementor Pro 5.8M sites
  3. 3 Slider Revolution 3.2M sites
  4. 4 Rank Math 3.1M sites
  5. 5 WPBakery 2.2M sites
  6. 6 WP Rocket 2.1M sites
  7. 7 Essential Addons for Elementor 1.6M sites
  8. 8 WPForms 1.5M sites
  9. 9 Complianz 1.5M sites
  10. 10 Gravity Forms 837K sites
  11. 11 Kadence Blocks 637.1K sites
  12. 12 Premium Addons for Elementor 512.7K sites
  13. 13 Smart Slider 3 499.7K sites
  14. 14 The Events Calendar 489.3K sites
  15. 15 Wordfence 473.7K sites
  16. 16 Fluent Forms 415.9K sites
  17. 17 TranslatePress 360.6K sites
  18. 18 JetEngine 357.6K sites
  19. 19 YITH WooCommerce Wishlist 338.6K sites
  20. 20 All in One SEO Pack 281.1K sites
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Top Theme Authors

by total active installs
  1. 1 Elementor 3 themes 1.1M+
  2. 2 Brainstorm Force 2 themes 1M+
  3. 3 Nexcess 4 themes 514K+
  4. 4 Tom 6 themes 502K+
  5. 5 oceanwp 1 theme 500K+
  6. 6 Themeisle 11 themes 309.5K+
  7. 7 Creative Themes 1 theme 300K+
  8. 8 Automattic 261 themes 226K+
  9. 9 Extendify 1 theme 200K+
  10. 10 Extend Themes 57 themes 180.2K+
  11. 11 WP Royal 4 themes 147K+
  12. 12 ThemeGrill 23 themes 136.4K+
  13. 13 Hidekazu Ishikawa 2 themes 106K+
  14. 14 pagelayer 1 theme 100K+
  15. 15 aThemes 2 themes 90K+
  16. 16 themeansar 114 themes 88.4K+
  17. 17 FameThemes 19 themes 75.7K+
  18. 18 Catch Themes 145 themes 67.3K+
  19. 19 WPZOOM 7 themes 66K+
  20. 20 Anders Norén 33 themes 62.9K+
View the full authors leaderboard →

Top Plugin Authors

by total active installs
  1. 1 Syed Balkhi 98 plugins 22.5M+
  2. 2 Automattic 77 plugins 18.2M+
  3. 3 Yoast 7 plugins 13.2M+
  4. 4 Elementor 14 plugins 12.3M+
  5. 5 Rock Lobster Inc. 6 plugins 11.1M+
  6. 6 LiteSpeed Technologies 2 plugins 7M+
  7. 7 Brainstorm Force 34 plugins 6.9M+
  8. 8 David Anderson / Team Updraft 16 plugins 6.3M+
  9. 9 Google 3 plugins 5.1M+
  10. 10 Mark Maunder 2 plugins 5M+
  11. 11 ServMask 1 plugin 5M+
  12. 12 WooCommerce 30 plugins 4.5M+
  13. 13 Softaculous 12 plugins 4.3M+
  14. 14 Rank Math SEO 2 plugins 4.2M+
  15. 15 mndpsingh287 8 plugins 4.1M+
  16. 16 Hostinger 2 plugins 4M+
  17. 17 WPDeveloper 47 plugins 3.9M+
  18. 18 WP Engine 15 plugins 3.5M+
  19. 19 WebFactory 28 plugins 3.5M+
  20. 20 Really Simple Plugins 4 plugins 3.1M+
View the full authors leaderboard →

What is WP.MD?

WP.MD is a daily tracker for the WordPress.org ecosystem. Every day we capture the official directories’ popularity rankings for themes and plugins and record each one’s position, active installs, and downloads — building the time series the directories themselves never show. Instead of a static snapshot, you see who’s rising, who’s falling, and how fast, across 1, 7, and 30 days. The lists above show the current top 20 themes and top 20 plugins by active installs, as of 2026-08-06.

Two catalogs, one ecosystem

Themes and plugins play by different rules, and the numbers reflect it. The theme directory caps public install counts at 1M+ — a bucket currently shared by Twenty Twenty-Five, Hello Elementor, and Astra. The plugin side runs an order of magnitude bigger, topping out at 10M+ active installs, where Elementor, Yoast SEO, and Contact Form 7 lead the field. Movement has different causes too: theme rankings are shaped by WordPress’s bundled defaults, while plugin downloads spike with every update a popular plugin ships.

The full trackers go much deeper than the top 20 — daily movement columns, Block vs. Classic filtering, ratings, install milestones, and a page for every theme and plugin with its complete ranking history: see the most popular WordPress themes and the most popular WordPress plugins.

Beyond the rankings

Popularity is only one lens. Our WordPress theme statistics and WordPress plugin statistics cover the whole directories — nearly 15,000 themes and over 50,000 plugins — with growth trends, author breakdowns, and category leaders. We also benchmark the fastest WordPress themes with Lighthouse performance scores, and rank the top theme authors across their entire portfolios.

Frequently asked questions

As of 2026-08-06, Twenty Twenty-Five leads the WordPress.org theme popularity ranking, followed by Hello Elementor and Astra. Keep in mind that default themes ship with WordPress core, so part of their lead reflects bundling rather than deliberate choice — the daily theme tracker shows how the full ranking moves.

As of 2026-08-06, Elementor tops the plugin ranking with 10M+ active installs, ahead of Yoast SEO and Contact Form 7. See the daily plugin tracker for the full list and movement.

Where does the data come from?

All ranking data comes from the public WordPress.org directories, captured once a day and stored as a time series. Real-world usage figures and performance scores come from independent sources — live-site surveys and Lighthouse tests — so directory popularity can be compared against actual deployment.

How often is this data updated?

Every day. Each snapshot is compared against the previous day, and the trackers surface 7-day and 30-day movement alongside it. The top-20 lists on this page always reflect the latest capture.