⚡ WordPress Plugins in the United Kingdom

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.

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (UK) is a Western European country with a population of over 67 million people.

According to our data, WordPress plugins are used on 39.4% of websites from the United Kingdom.

Statistics based on 160K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is Yoast SEO with a substantial share of 51.8%, followed by Contact Form 7 with 28% and Elementor with 21.4%.

Yoast SEO 51.8%
Contact Form 7 28%
Elementor 21.4%
WooCommerce 17.4%
Site Kit 15.6%
Really Simple Security 13.2%
GlotPress 10.9%
WP Rocket 9.6%
WPBakery 9.6%
Slider Revolution 9.3%
Rank Math 8.1%
All in One SEO 6.1%
MonsterInsights 5.9%
Gravity Forms 5.5%
Jetpack 4.7%

🚀 Highlights

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

4. WooCommerce ^(-2)
7. GlotPress ^(-2)
9. WPBakery ^(-1)
13. MonsterInsights ^(-1)
14. Gravity Forms ^(-2)
16. W3 Total Cache ^(-2)
18. Autoptimize ^(-1)
19. Wordfence ^(-6)
20. WPForms ^(-1)
21. LiteSpeed Cache for WordPress ^(-2)

✨ Best WordPress Plugins

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 181 WordPress plugins used on sites from the United Kingdom, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market 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	51.8%
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	28%
3	Elementor Ramat Gan, Israel A visual drag-and-drop page builder for WordPress. Free$4.92+/month	21.4%
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	17.4%
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	15.6%
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	13.2%
7	GlotPress An open-source WordPress plugin that lets you set up your own collaborative, web-based software translation tool. FreeOpen source	10.9%
8	WP Rocket Lyon, France A caching and performance optimization plugin that improves the loading speed of WordPress websites. $59/year	9.6%
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+	9.6%
10	Slider Revolution Cologne, Germany A commercial WordPress plugin that allows users to create responsive sliders, carousels, and animated content modules without coding. $39/year	9.3%
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	8.1%
12	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	6.1%
13	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	5.9%
14	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	5.5%
15	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	4.7%
16	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	4.3%
17	The Events Calendar Lansing, Michigan, United States A WordPress plugin that enables users to create, manage, and display in-person and virtual events through customizable calendar views and event listings. FreeOpen source$149	4.1%
18	Autoptimize Lokeren, Belgium A WordPress plugin that aggregates, minifies and caches scripts and styles, and defers CSS and scripts. FreeOpen source$12.99/month	3.5%
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	3.4%
20	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	3.2%
21	LiteSpeed Cache for WordPress Newtown Square, Pennsylvania, United States An all-in-one open source site acceleration plugin that provides server-level caching and a collection of optimization features. FreeOpen source	2.9%
22	GTM4WP Budapest, Hungary A WordPress plugin that simplifies integration of Google Tag Manager into sites. FreeOpen source	2.8%
23	Smush Melbourne, Australia An image optimization plugin for WordPress that allows you to optimize and resize images, enable lazy loading, and compress media files in background mode. Free$36+/year	2.6%
24	WP Super Cache San Francisco, California, United States An open-source, fast caching engine for WordPress that produces static HTML files. FreeOpen source	2.5%
25	WP Fastest Cache Ankara, Turkey A caching plugin that speeds up WordPress sites and improves the PageSpeed Insights score. FreeOpen source$49	2.4%

👉 See Also

🌎 WordPress Plugins in other countries

🗃️ About This Data

We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
This report is based on the analysis of 160,968 websites from the United Kingdom.
We currently track the presence of 185 WordPress plugins across the web.
Of these, 181 were detected on websites from the United Kingdom.
Statistics were last calculated on May 6, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.