
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 | 21,224 | 33.826% |
#2 | Slider Revolution | 9,942 | 15.845% |
#3 | Jetpack | 9,297 | 14.817% |
#4 | WPBakery Page Builder | 5,062 | 8.068% |
#5 | Simple Calendar | 4,285 | 6.829% |
#6 | Layerslider | 4,101 | 6.536% |
#7 | All In One Event Calendar | 3,966 | 6.321% |
#8 | WooCommerce | 3,004 | 4.788% |
#9 | The Events Calendar | 2,970 | 4.733% |
#10 | Google Analytics For WordPress | 2,963 | 4.722% |
#11 | Page Builder by SiteOrigin | 2,346 | 3.739% |
#12 | Custom Facebook Feed | 1,868 | 2.977% |
#13 | MetaSlider | 1,855 | 2.956% |
#14 | WP Pagenavi | 1,841 | 2.934% |
#15 | TablePress | 1,766 | 2.815% |
#16 | Photo Gallery | 1,705 | 2.717% |
#17 | Events Manager | 1,584 | 2.525% |
#18 | Page Links To | 1,541 | 2.456% |
#19 | Youtube Embed Plus | 1,488 | 2.372% |
#20 | Nextgen Gallery | 1,377 | 2.195% |
#21 | Essential Grid Gallery Plugin | 1,365 | 2.175% |
#22 | Cookie Notice | 1,328 | 2.117% |
#23 | Wysija Newsletters | 1,259 | 2.007% |
#24 | SiteOrigin Widgets Bundle | 1,176 | 1.874% |
#25 | Events Calendar Pro | 1,159 | 1.847% |
#26 | MailChimp for WordPress | 1,078 | 1.718% |
#27 | Instagram Feed | 1,060 | 1.689% |
#28 | Simple Social Icons | 1,048 | 1.67% |
#29 | MapPress Maps for WordPress | 891 | 1.42% |
#30 | Seamless Donations | 881 | 1.404% |
#31 | Easy Fancybox | 879 | 1.401% |
#32 | Give – Donation Plugin and Fundraising Platform | 852 | 1.358% |
#33 | Cornerstone | 849 | 1.353% |
#34 | Add To Any | 845 | 1.347% |
#35 | Audio Player | 828 | 1.32% |
#36 | Captcha | 819 | 1.305% |
#37 | Responsive Lightbox | 811 | 1.293% |
#38 | Bible Verse Of The Day | 810 | 1.291% |
#39 | Sermon Manager For WordPress | 805 | 1.283% |
#40 | Elementor Page Builder | 793 | 1.264% |
#41 | Seriously Simple Podcasting | 775 | 1.235% |
#42 | Seriesengine Plugin | 770 | 1.227% |
#43 | Compact WP Audio Player | 752 | 1.199% |
#44 | WP Statistics | 750 | 1.195% |
#45 | Gravity Forms | 740 | 1.179% |
#46 | Social Media Icons Widget | 700 | 1.116% |
#47 | Google Analyticator | 698 | 1.112% |
#48 | EventOn | 691 | 1.101% |
#49 | WP Google Maps | 653 | 1.041% |
#50 | Social Media Widget | 648 | 1.033% |
#51 | Cromax | 648 | 1.033% |
#52 | My Calendar | 644 | 1.026% |
#53 | Vamtam Push Menu | 634 | 1.01% |
#54 | Bb Plugin | 622 | 0.991% |
#55 | Masterslider | 620 | 0.988% |
#56 | Simple Lightbox | 620 | 0.988% |
#57 | Contact Form Plugin | 608 | 0.969% |
#58 | Formidable Forms | 603 | 0.961% |
#59 | Cookie Law Info | 591 | 0.942% |
#60 | Fusion Builder | 588 | 0.937% |
#61 | WP Retina 2x | 572 | 0.912% |
#62 | Column Shortcodes | 565 | 0.9% |
#63 | Max Mega Menu | 563 | 0.897% |
#64 | WordPress Download Manager | 556 | 0.886% |
#65 | Genesis Responsive Slider | 555 | 0.885% |
#66 | Media Element Html5 Video And Audio Player | 540 | 0.861% |
#67 | Ultimate Vc Addons | 537 | 0.856% |
#68 | Monarch Social Media Sharing | 533 | 0.849% |
#69 | WP Spamshield | 517 | 0.824% |
#70 | Sitepress Multilingual CMS | 516 | 0.822% |
#71 | bbPress | 511 | 0.814% |
#72 | Fusion Core | 503 | 0.802% |
#73 | JS Composer Salient | 499 | 0.795% |
#74 | Divi Builder | 495 | 0.789% |
#75 | Simple Share Buttons Adder | 491 | 0.783% |
#76 | Maxbuttons | 486 | 0.775% |
#77 | UK Cookie Consent | 485 | 0.773% |
#78 | Extra Sidebar Widgets | 484 | 0.771% |
#79 | Lightbox Plus | 484 | 0.771% |
#80 | Prihod Ru Webmaster | 484 | 0.771% |
#81 | Ortox Network Sites | 484 | 0.771% |
#82 | Payment Imithemes | 482 | 0.768% |
#83 | Vamtam Love It | 479 | 0.763% |
#84 | UberMenu | 479 | 0.763% |
#85 | Ajax Event Calendar | 477 | 0.76% |
#86 | Google Captcha | 476 | 0.759% |
#87 | Spider Event Calendar | 475 | 0.757% |
#88 | Dynamic To Top | 465 | 0.741% |
#89 | Mp3 Jplayer | 458 | 0.73% |
#90 | Newsletter | 449 | 0.716% |
#91 | Download Monitor | 446 | 0.711% |
#92 | Form Maker | 443 | 0.706% |
#93 | jQuery Collapse O Matic | 436 | 0.695% |
#94 | Shortcodes Ultimate | 434 | 0.692% |
#95 | Custom Facebook Feed Pro | 433 | 0.69% |
#96 | MailChimp List Subscribe Form | 431 | 0.687% |
#97 | Contact Widgets | 427 | 0.681% |
#98 | Gutenberg | 426 | 0.679% |
#99 | Sharedaddy | 426 | 0.679% |
#100 | Feed Them Social | 404 | 0.644% |
Number of Church Websites Powered by WordPress | 62,745 | ||
Last updated | August 15th, 2018 |