⚡ WordPress Plugins in South Africa

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.

South Africa is an African country with a population of over 60 million people.

According to our data, WordPress plugins are used on 47.5% of websites from South Africa.

Statistics based on 18K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is Yoast SEO with an impressive share of 43.6%, followed by Elementor with 37.3% and Contact Form 7 with 30.7%.

Yoast SEO 43.6%
Elementor 37.3%
Contact Form 7 30.7%
Really Simple Security 26.7%
WooCommerce 24.3%
Site Kit 20.1%
Slider Revolution 18.7%
WPBakery 13.8%
Rank Math 10.1%
MonsterInsights 8.2%
WP Rocket 8.1%
All in One SEO 6.7%
WPForms 6.6%
Gravity Forms 5.6%
GlotPress 5.3%

🚀 Highlights

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

2. Elementor ^(-1)
4. Really Simple Security ^(-1)
5. WooCommerce ^(-1)
8. WPBakery ^(-2)
9. Rank Math ^(-2)
10. MonsterInsights ^(-4)
13. WPForms ^(-8)
14. Gravity Forms ^(-2)
16. W3 Total Cache ^(-1)
17. WP-Optimize ^(-16)

✨ Best WordPress Plugins

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 166 WordPress plugins used on sites from South Africa, 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	43.6%
2	Elementor Ramat Gan, Israel A visual drag-and-drop page builder for WordPress. Free$4.92+/month	37.3%
3	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	30.7%
4	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	26.7%
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	24.3%
6	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	20.1%
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	18.7%
8	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+	13.8%
9	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	10.1%
10	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	8.2%
11	WP Rocket Lyon, France A caching and performance optimization plugin that improves the loading speed of WordPress websites. $59/year	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	6.7%
13	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	6.6%
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	5.6%
15	GlotPress An open-source WordPress plugin that lets you set up your own collaborative, web-based software translation tool. FreeOpen source	5.3%
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	4.5%
17	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	4.1%
18	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%
19	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	3.9%
20	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	3.9%
21	GTM4WP Budapest, Hungary A WordPress plugin that simplifies integration of Google Tag Manager into sites. FreeOpen source	3.4%
22	WP Fastest Cache Ankara, Turkey A caching plugin that speeds up WordPress sites and improves the PageSpeed Insights score. FreeOpen source$49	3.3%
23	Smart Slider Győr, Hungary A responsive slider for WordPress and Joomla. Free$49	3.1%
24	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	3%
25	Redux Framework Chagrin Falls, Ohio, United States A simple, extensible framework for WordPress themes and plugins.	2.9%

👉 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 18,135 websites from South Africa.
We currently track the presence of 185 WordPress plugins across the web.
Of these, 166 were detected on websites from South Africa.
Statistics were last calculated on May 5, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.