⚡ WordPress Plugins in Germany

WordPress plugins extend the functionality of WordPress websites by adding modular software components that integrate with the core system and enable customization without direct code modifications.

Germany is a Central European country with a population of around 84 million people.

According to our data, WordPress plugins are used on 26.9% of websites from Germany.

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

The following chart shows the top WordPress plugins in Germany in 2026, based on market share.

The most popular is Yoast SEO with an impressive share of 44.6%, followed by Contact Form 7 with 28.6% and Elementor with 23.4%.

🚀 Highlights

Here is a list of the top plugins that are more popular in Germany than worldwide.
Differences between global and country rankings are shown in parentheses.

✨ Best WordPress Plugins

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 178 WordPress plugins used on sites from Germany, ranked by their market share.

RankNameMarket share
1
Yoast SEO
Wijchen, Netherlands

A WordPress search engine optimization plugin that helps optimize website content, metadata, and technical SEO settings to improve visibility in search engines.

Free$99/year
2
Contact Form 7
Fukuoka, Japan

A free WordPress plugin that allows users to create and customize contact forms and other types of forms for their websites.

FreeOpen source
3
Elementor
Ramat Gan, Israel

A visual drag-and-drop page builder for WordPress.

Free$4.92+/month
4
Borlabs Cookie
Hamburg, Germany

A WordPress consent management plugin designed to help website owners comply with GDPR and ePrivacy regulations by managing cookie consent.

€49+/year
5
GlotPress

An open-source WordPress plugin that lets you set up your own collaborative, web-based software translation tool.

FreeOpen source
6
WP Rocket
Lyon, France

A caching and performance optimization plugin that improves the loading speed of WordPress websites.

$59/year
7
Slider Revolution
Cologne, Germany

A commercial WordPress plugin that allows users to create responsive sliders, carousels, and animated content modules without coding.

$39/year
8
Really Simple Security
Groningen, Netherlands

A security plugin for WordPress that can generate an SSL certificate, enforce https redirection, scan for possible vulnerabilities, enable 2FA, and implement WordPress hardening.

Free$49+/year
9
WPBakery
Nicosia, Cyprus

A commercial drag-and-drop page builder plugin for WordPress that lets users visually create and edit page layouts without writing code.

$69+
10
WooCommerce
San Francisco, California, United States

A customizable, open-source e-commerce platform built on WordPress that lets businesses sell online and retain full ownership of their site, data, and code.

FreeOpen source
11
Rank Math
New Delhi, India

A search engine optimization plugin for WordPress that makes it easy to optimize content with built-in suggestions based on widely accepted best practices.

Free$7.99+/month
12
WPML
Hong Kong

A multilingual WordPress plugin that helps users translate websites and WooCommerce stores into multiple languages from a single dashboard.

€39+/year
13
Site Kit
Mountain View, California, United States

The official WordPress plugin from Google for integrating and managing multiple Google services like Tag Manager, Search Console, Analytics, AdSense, PageSpeed Insights directly from the WordPress dashboard.

FreeOpen source
14
Autoptimize
Lokeren, Belgium

A WordPress plugin that aggregates, minifies and caches scripts and styles, and defers CSS and scripts.

FreeOpen source$12.99/month
15
WP Fastest Cache
Ankara, Turkey

A caching plugin that speeds up WordPress sites and improves the PageSpeed Insights score.

FreeOpen source$49
16
The Events Calendar
Lansing, Michigan, United States

A WordPress plugin designed to organize and display events on your website.

FreeOpen source$149
17
All in One SEO
West Palm Beach, Florida, United States

A WordPress SEO plugin that helps optimize websites for search engines by managing metadata, sitemaps, and structured data.

Free$49.60+/year
18
W3 Total Cache
Los Angeles, California, United States

A feature-rich WordPress caching plugin to speed up websites and rank higher on Google.

FreeOpen source$99+/year
19
WP Super Cache
San Francisco, California, United States

An open-source, fast caching engine for WordPress that produces static HTML files.

FreeOpen source
20
Real Cookie Banner

A cookie and consent management plugin for WordPress that obtains consent from website visitors to load services and set cookies in accordance with the GDPR and ePrivacy Directive.

FreeOpen source€59/year
21
Jetpack
San Francisco, California, United States

A collection of security, performance, and growth tools that make WordPress sites safer, faster, and increase traffic.

Free$19.95+/month
22
Polylang
Bourgoin Jallieu, France

A WordPress plugin that helps users translate posts, pages, media, categories, tags, widgets, navigation menus, and more.

FreeOpen source€99+
23
WPForms
West Palm Beach, Florida, United States

A WordPress form builder plugin with a drag-and-drop editor that lets users create contact, payment, survey, registration, and other custom forms without coding.

FreeOpen source$49.50+/year
24
WP-Optimize
Newport, Wales, United Kingdom

An all-in-one WordPress plugin that cleans your database, compresses your images, and minifies and caches your website.

FreeOpen source$49/year
25
LayerSlider
Budapest, Hungary

A commercial WordPress slider plugin for creating responsive sliders, animated content blocks, popups, and hero sections without coding.

$29+/year

👉 See Also

Data is based on the analysis of 225,778 websites from Germany.
Statistics were last calculated on .
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.