The 50 Most Popular Ranked Plugins
Sort By:   Name   Date   Popular Rank   Rating   #Ratings   #Downloads
WordPress SEO by Yoast	Rated 4.7 2728 ratings  4,579,693 times 16 Apr 2013
Improve your WordPress SEO: Write better content and have a fully optimized WordPress site using the WordPress SEO plugin by Yoast.
Version: 1.4.7   Added: 11 Oct 2010 Tested with WP version: 3.5.1
Contact Form 7	Rated 4.31 1935 ratings  8,388,607 times 8 Apr 2013
Just another contact form plugin. Simple but flexible.
Version: 3.4   Added: 02 Aug 2007 Tested with WP version: 3.5.1
NextGEN Gallery	Rated 4.18 2607 ratings  7,171,762 times 15 Feb 2013
The most popular WordPress gallery plugin and one of the most popular plugins of all time with over 6 million downloads.
Version: 1.9.12   Added: 23 Apr 2007 Tested with WP version: 3.5.1
Akismet	Rated 4.04 1041 ratings  8,388,607 times 13 Dec 2012
Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not.
Version: 2.5.7   Added: 20 Oct 2005 Tested with WP version: 3.5.1
Google XML Sitemaps	Rated 4.65 3563 ratings  8,388,607 times 11 Jan 2013
This plugin will generate a special XML sitemap which will help search engines to better index your blog.
Version: 3.2.9   Added: 16 Jun 2005 Tested with WP version: 3.5.1
Fast Secure Contact Form	Rated 4.47 1388 ratings  3,596,015 times 3 Apr 2013
A super customizable contact form that lets your visitors send you email. Blocks all automated spammers. No templates to mess with.
Version: 3.1.8.2   Added: 27 Aug 2009 Tested with WP version: 3.5.1
Ultimate TinyMCE	Rated 4.68 317 ratings  1,404,152 times 21 Apr 2013
Description: Beef up your visual tinymce editor with a plethora of advanced options.
Version: 4.5   Added: 14 Nov 2011 Tested with WP version: 3.6
WP Super Cache	Rated 4.14 1541 ratings  4,452,725 times 24 Apr 2013
A very fast caching engine for WordPress that produces static html files.
Version: 1.3.2   Added: 05 Nov 2007 Tested with WP version: 3.5.1
Google Analytics for WordPress	Rated 4.29 1205 ratings  4,521,965 times 5 Apr 2013
Track your WordPress site easily and with lots of metadata: views per author & category, automatic tracking of outbound clicks and pageviews.
Version: 4.3.3   Added: 14 Sep 2007 Tested with WP version: 3.5.1
W3 Total Cache	Rated 4.55 3384 ratings  2,018,808 times 17 Apr 2013
Easy Web Performance Optimization (WPO) using caching: browser, page, object, database, minify and content delivery network support.
Version: 0.9.2.9   Added: 29 Jul 2009 Tested with WP version: 3.5.1
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