⚡ WordPress Plugins in New Zealand

WordPress plugins extend the functionality of WordPress websites by adding various features such as design customizations, contact forms, SEO improvements, security enhancements, and e-commerce capabilities with no coding required.

New Zealand is an Oceanian country with a population of over 5.1 million people.

According to our data, WordPress plugins are used on 32.6% of websites from New Zealand.

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is Yoast SEO with a substantial share of 51%, followed by Contact Form 7 with 26.2% and Elementor with 24.9%.

🚀 Highlights

Here is a list of the top plugins that are more popular in New Zealand 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 147 WordPress plugins used on sites from New Zealand, 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
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
5
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
6
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
7
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+
8
WP Rocket
Lyon, France

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

$59/year
9
Slider Revolution
Cologne, Germany

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

$39/year
10
GlotPress

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

FreeOpen source
11
Gravity Forms
Virginia Beach, Virginia, United States

A WordPress plugin that enables site owners to create and manage online forms for collecting data directly within WordPress websites.

$59+/year
12
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
13
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
14
MonsterInsights
West Palm Beach, Florida, United States

A WordPress plugin that integrates Google Analytics into WordPress and displays key website performance metrics directly in the WordPress dashboard.

Free$99.50+/year
15
GTM4WP
Budapest, Hungary

A WordPress plugin that simplifies integration of Google Tag Manager into sites.

FreeOpen source
16
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
17
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
18
WP Super Cache
San Francisco, California, United States

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

FreeOpen source
19
Wordfence
Seattle, Washington, United States

A WordPress security plugin that provides a web application firewall and malware scanner to protect websites from hacking attempts, malicious traffic, and vulnerable code.

Free$149+/year
20
The Events Calendar
Lansing, Michigan, United States

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

FreeOpen source$149
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
WP Fastest Cache
Ankara, Turkey

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

FreeOpen source$49
23
Formidable Forms
Riverton, Utah, United States

A forms plugin for WordPress that provides a drag-and-drop builder to create contact forms, surveys, quizzes, payment and calculator forms, user registration, and custom data-driven applications without coding.

FreeOpen source$39.50+/year
24
Beaver Builder
San Francisco, California, United States

A drag-and-drop page builder plugin for WordPress that lets users visually design and customize responsive website layouts.

FreeOpen source$89+/year
25
Autoptimize
Lokeren, Belgium

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

FreeOpen source$12.99/month

👉 See Also

Data is based on the analysis of 13,907 websites from New Zealand.
Statistics were last calculated on .
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.