⚡ 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 39.7% of websites from the United Kingdom.

Statistics based on 183K+ 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, which dominates the market with a substantial 53% share.
It is followed by Contact Form 7 with 26.1% and Elementor with 22.5%.

Yoast SEO 53%
Contact Form 7 26.1%
Elementor 22.5%
Site Kit 18.6%
WooCommerce 18%
GlotPress 16.3%
Really Simple Security 11.5%
Rank Math 9.8%
WP Rocket 9.6%
WPBakery 8.9%
Slider Revolution 8.3%
Gravity Forms 6.5%
All in One SEO 5.7%
MonsterInsights 5.6%
Jetpack 4.5%

🚀 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.

8. Rank Math ^(-2)
10. WPBakery ^(-1)
12. Gravity Forms ^(-2)
14. MonsterInsights ^(-1)
15. Jetpack ^(-2)
17. W3 Total Cache ^(-1)
18. LiteSpeed Cache for WordPress ^(-4)
19. Autoptimize ^(-1)
20. GTM4WP ^(-4)
21. Wordfence ^(-7)

✨ Best WordPress Plugins

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 182 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	53%
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	26.1%
3	Elementor Ramat Gan, Israel A visual drag-and-drop page builder for WordPress that enables users to create websites, landing pages, and e-commerce stores through a front-end editor without coding. Free$5+/month	22.5%
4	Site Kit Mountain View, California, United States Google's official WordPress plugin that connects websites to Google services and displays their data directly in the WordPress dashboard. FreeOpen source	18.6%
5	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	18%
6	GlotPress An open-source WordPress plugin that lets you set up your own collaborative, web-based software translation tool. FreeOpen source	16.3%
7	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	11.5%
8	Rank Math New Delhi, India A search engine optimization plugin for WordPress that provides real-time content analysis, schema markup generation, and keyword optimization to improve search rankings. Free$7.99+/month	9.8%
9	WP Rocket Lyon, France A caching and performance optimization plugin that improves the loading speed of WordPress websites. $59/year	9.6%
10	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+	8.9%
11	Slider Revolution Cologne, Germany A commercial WordPress plugin that allows users to create responsive sliders, carousels, and animated content modules without coding. $3.75+/month	8.3%
12	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	6.5%
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	5.7%
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	5.6%
15	Jetpack San Francisco, California, United States A collection of security, performance, and audience growth tools for WordPress sites. Free$19.95+/month	4.5%
16	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	4.2%
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	4%
18	LiteSpeed Cache for WordPress Newtown Square, Pennsylvania, United States An open-source site acceleration plugin that provides optimization tools and server-level caching for WordPress sites. FreeOpen source	3.4%
19	Autoptimize Lokeren, Belgium A WordPress plugin that aggregates, minifies and caches scripts and styles, and defers CSS and scripts. FreeOpen source$12.99/month	3.2%
20	GTM4WP Budapest, Hungary A WordPress plugin that simplifies integration of Google Tag Manager into sites. FreeOpen source	3.1%
21	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	3.1%
22	WP Fastest Cache Ankara, Turkey A caching plugin that speeds up WordPress sites and improves the PageSpeed Insights score. FreeOpen source$49	2.4%
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. FreeOpen source$49.50+/year	2.4%
24	Smush Melbourne, Australia A WordPress image optimization plugin that provides global CDN delivery, WebP and AVIF conversion, and critical LCP image preloading on Pro plans. Free$36+/year	2.4%
25	WP Super Cache San Francisco, California, United States An open-source, fast caching engine for WordPress that produces static HTML files. FreeOpen source	2.3%

👉 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 183,840 websites from the United Kingdom.
We currently track the presence of 185 WordPress plugins across the web.
Of these, 182 were detected on websites from the United Kingdom.
Statistics were last calculated on September 18, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.