Most Popular WordPress Plugins for Churches
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Most Church websites have very specific needs which cannot be easily fulfilled by WordPress straight out of the box. Things like content sliders and accordions, event calendars and timetables, newsletters, donation and crowdfunding features.
Thankfully there are plenty of WordPress plugins, free and paid, that can extend your church’s WordPress website with such features.
To make it easier for you to discover and install these plugins, we are bringing you this table of the Top 100 most used WordPress plugins on church websites. You might discover some popular plugins that will inspire you to create something useful for your churchgoers.
If you’re looking for some design inspiration for your new website, then check out our list of the Most Used WordPress Themes by Churches.
| # | Plugin Name | Total Websites | % of Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Contact Form 7 | 20,984 | 33.438% |
| #2 | Slider Revolution | 9,283 | 14.792% |
| #3 | The Events Calendar | 6,755 | 10.764% |
| #4 | Jetpack | 6,748 | 10.753% |
| #5 | WPBakery Page Builder | 5,215 | 8.31% |
| #6 | Simple Calendar | 3,992 | 6.361% |
| #7 | Google Analytics For WordPress | 3,959 | 6.309% |
| #8 | Layerslider | 3,386 | 5.396% |
| #9 | All In One Event Calendar | 3,210 | 5.115% |
| #10 | WooCommerce | 2,723 | 4.339% |
| #11 | Youtube Embed Plus | 2,624 | 4.181% |
| #12 | Elementor Page Builder | 2,184 | 3.48% |
| #13 | Page Builder by SiteOrigin | 2,055 | 3.275% |
| #14 | Google Analytics Dashboard For WP | 2,007 | 3.198% |
| #15 | TablePress | 1,843 | 2.937% |
| #16 | MetaSlider | 1,792 | 2.856% |
| #17 | Cookie Notice | 1,790 | 2.852% |
| #18 | Custom Facebook Feed | 1,700 | 2.709% |
| #19 | Photo Gallery | 1,606 | 2.559% |
| #20 | WP Pagenavi | 1,514 | 2.413% |
| #21 | Page Links To | 1,498 | 2.387% |
| #22 | Nextgen Gallery | 1,488 | 2.371% |
| #23 | Events Manager | 1,461 | 2.328% |
| #24 | Instagram Feed | 1,412 | 2.25% |
| #25 | Wc Gallery | 1,379 | 2.197% |
| #26 | Essential Grid Gallery Plugin | 1,345 | 2.143% |
| #27 | SiteOrigin Widgets Bundle | 1,246 | 1.985% |
| #28 | Bb Plugin | 1,189 | 1.895% |
| #29 | MailChimp for WordPress | 1,091 | 1.739% |
| #30 | Give – Donation Plugin and Fundraising Platform | 1,080 | 1.721% |
| #31 | Simple Social Icons | 1,067 | 1.7% |
| #32 | Fusion Builder | 951 | 1.515% |
| #33 | Cookie Law Info | 940 | 1.498% |
| #34 | Fusion Core | 884 | 1.409% |
| #35 | Seriously Simple Podcasting | 860 | 1.37% |
| #36 | Cornerstone | 852 | 1.358% |
| #37 | Seriesengine Plugin | 844 | 1.345% |
| #38 | Gravity Forms | 831 | 1.324% |
| #39 | Add To Any | 817 | 1.302% |
| #40 | Responsive Lightbox | 811 | 1.292% |
| #41 | Wysija Newsletters | 797 | 1.27% |
| #42 | Easy Fancybox | 796 | 1.268% |
| #43 | WP Google Maps | 790 | 1.259% |
| #44 | Formidable Forms | 786 | 1.252% |
| #45 | Elementor Pro | 778 | 1.24% |
| #46 | Bible Verse Of The Day | 767 | 1.222% |
| #47 | MapPress Maps for WordPress | 742 | 1.182% |
| #48 | EventOn | 736 | 1.173% |
| #49 | Events Calendar Pro | 724 | 1.154% |
| #50 | Gutenberg | 722 | 1.151% |
| #51 | Social Icons Widget By WPzoom | 713 | 1.136% |
| #52 | Max Mega Menu | 697 | 1.111% |
| #53 | Sermon Manager For WordPress | 672 | 1.071% |
| #54 | Seamless Donations | 666 | 1.061% |
| #55 | Compact WP Audio Player | 643 | 1.025% |
| #56 | Simple Lightbox | 614 | 0.978% |
| #57 | Contact Widgets | 614 | 0.978% |
| #58 | My Calendar | 613 | 0.977% |
| #59 | WordPress Download Manager | 608 | 0.969% |
| #60 | Smart Slider 3 | 600 | 0.956% |
| #61 | Social Media Icons Widget | 593 | 0.945% |
| #62 | Monarch Social Media Sharing | 577 | 0.919% |
| #63 | Ultimate Vc Addons | 573 | 0.913% |
| #64 | Newsletter | 563 | 0.897% |
| #65 | Masterslider | 548 | 0.873% |
| #66 | Ultimate Social Media Icons | 547 | 0.872% |
| #67 | Content Views Query And Display Post Page | 527 | 0.84% |
| #68 | Custom Facebook Feed Pro | 516 | 0.822% |
| #69 | Modern Events Calendar Lite | 515 | 0.821% |
| #70 | Vamtam Push Menu | 513 | 0.817% |
| #71 | Sitepress Multilingual CMS | 501 | 0.798% |
| #72 | JS Composer Salient | 492 | 0.784% |
| #73 | Google Analyticator | 490 | 0.781% |
| #74 | WP Rocket | 489 | 0.779% |
| #75 | Extra Sidebar Widgets | 484 | 0.771% |
| #76 | Ortox Network Sites | 484 | 0.771% |
| #77 | Prihod Ru Webmaster | 484 | 0.771% |
| #78 | Column Shortcodes | 478 | 0.762% |
| #79 | UK Cookie Consent | 465 | 0.741% |
| #80 | Simple Share Buttons Adder | 465 | 0.741% |
| #81 | Cromax | 464 | 0.739% |
| #82 | Social Media Widget | 461 | 0.735% |
| #83 | Feed Them Social | 461 | 0.735% |
| #84 | Dynamic To Top | 453 | 0.722% |
| #85 | Genesis Responsive Slider | 449 | 0.715% |
| #86 | Captcha | 434 | 0.692% |
| #87 | Download Monitor | 433 | 0.69% |
| #88 | Media Element Html5 Video And Audio Player | 429 | 0.684% |
| #89 | Modern Events Calendar | 426 | 0.679% |
| #90 | jQuery Collapse O Matic | 419 | 0.668% |
| #91 | Contact Form Plugin | 416 | 0.663% |
| #92 | Sharedaddy | 412 | 0.657% |
| #93 | WP Mailto Links | 409 | 0.652% |
| #94 | Shortcodes Ultimate | 407 | 0.649% |
| #95 | Foobox Image Lightbox | 406 | 0.647% |
| #96 | UberMenu | 398 | 0.634% |
| #97 | Themeisle Companion | 397 | 0.633% |
| #98 | Payment Imithemes | 392 | 0.625% |
| #99 | bbPress | 388 | 0.618% |
| #100 | Google Language Translator | 387 | 0.617% |
| Number of Church Websites Powered by WordPress | 62,755 | ||
| Last updated | December 16th, 2020 | ||
