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.
We have several Church WordPress Themes with Google Fonts integrated directly into them. The selected fonts are automatically downloaded and are served locally, which is better for performance and complies with GDPR regulations.
| # | Plugin Name | Total Websites | % of Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Contact Form 7 | 18,211 | 28.681% |
| #2 | Slider Revolution | 8,014 | 12.622% |
| #3 | Jetpack | 6,360 | 10.017% |
| #4 | WPBakery Page Builder | 4,596 | 7.238% |
| #5 | The Events Calendar | 3,816 | 6.01% |
| #6 | Google Analytics For WordPress | 3,722 | 5.862% |
| #7 | Simple Calendar | 3,165 | 4.985% |
| #8 | Youtube Embed Plus | 2,993 | 4.714% |
| #9 | Layerslider | 2,623 | 4.131% |
| #10 | Elementor Page Builder | 2,533 | 3.989% |
| #11 | All In One Event Calendar | 2,491 | 3.923% |
| #12 | WooCommerce | 2,431 | 3.829% |
| #13 | Nextgen Gallery | 1,969 | 3.101% |
| #14 | Google Analytics Dashboard For WP | 1,767 | 2.783% |
| #15 | Page Builder by SiteOrigin | 1,674 | 2.636% |
| #16 | MetaSlider | 1,670 | 2.63% |
| #17 | TablePress | 1,648 | 2.596% |
| #18 | Events Calendar Pro | 1,442 | 2.271% |
| #19 | Bb Plugin | 1,440 | 2.268% |
| #20 | Instagram Feed | 1,409 | 2.219% |
| #21 | Page Links To | 1,402 | 2.208% |
| #22 | Photo Gallery | 1,352 | 2.129% |
| #23 | Custom Facebook Feed | 1,305 | 2.055% |
| #24 | Cookie Law Info | 1,296 | 2.041% |
| #25 | Events Manager | 1,284 | 2.022% |
| #26 | WP Pagenavi | 1,258 | 1.981% |
| #27 | Wc Gallery | 1,138 | 1.792% |
| #28 | SiteOrigin Widgets Bundle | 1,107 | 1.743% |
| #29 | Elementor Pro | 1,096 | 1.726% |
| #30 | Essential Grid Gallery Plugin | 1,087 | 1.712% |
| #31 | Fusion Builder | 1,044 | 1.644% |
| #32 | Give – Donation Plugin and Fundraising Platform | 1,032 | 1.625% |
| #33 | Gravity Forms | 971 | 1.529% |
| #34 | Fusion Core | 971 | 1.529% |
| #35 | MailChimp for WordPress | 913 | 1.438% |
| #36 | Simple Social Icons | 876 | 1.38% |
| #37 | Modern Events Calendar Lite | 868 | 1.367% |
| #38 | Seriesengine Plugin | 822 | 1.295% |
| #39 | Add To Any | 777 | 1.224% |
| #40 | Smart Slider 3 | 768 | 1.21% |
| #41 | Formidable Forms | 757 | 1.192% |
| #42 | Max Mega Menu | 748 | 1.178% |
| #43 | Responsive Lightbox | 733 | 1.154% |
| #44 | Social Icons Widget By WPzoom | 725 | 1.142% |
| #45 | Easy Fancybox | 690 | 1.087% |
| #46 | Bible Verse Of The Day | 664 | 1.046% |
| #47 | WP Rocket | 656 | 1.033% |
| #48 | Cornerstone | 629 | 0.991% |
| #49 | Thechurchco | 628 | 0.989% |
| #50 | WordPress Download Manager | 624 | 0.983% |
| #51 | EventOn | 617 | 0.972% |
| #52 | Gutenberg | 613 | 0.965% |
| #53 | Simple Lightbox | 611 | 0.962% |
| #54 | WP Smushit | 605 | 0.953% |
| #55 | MapPress Maps for WordPress | 590 | 0.929% |
| #56 | Cookie Notice | 584 | 0.92% |
| #57 | Newsletter | 581 | 0.915% |
| #58 | WP Google Maps | 563 | 0.887% |
| #59 | Ultimate Vc Addons | 560 | 0.882% |
| #60 | JS Composer Salient | 545 | 0.858% |
| #61 | My Calendar | 538 | 0.847% |
| #62 | Sermon Manager For WordPress | 536 | 0.844% |
| #63 | Ninja Forms | 532 | 0.838% |
| #64 | Ultimate Social Media Icons | 532 | 0.838% |
| #65 | Wysija Newsletters | 528 | 0.832% |
| #66 | Coblocks | 521 | 0.821% |
| #67 | Monarch Social Media Sharing | 513 | 0.808% |
| #68 | Custom Facebook Feed Pro | 510 | 0.803% |
| #69 | Seamless Donations | 503 | 0.792% |
| #70 | Content Views Query And Display Post Page | 500 | 0.787% |
| #71 | Contact Widgets | 500 | 0.787% |
| #72 | Embed Any Document | 499 | 0.786% |
| #73 | Sitepress Multilingual CMS | 497 | 0.783% |
| #74 | Compact WP Audio Player | 483 | 0.761% |
| #75 | Wpforms Lite | 480 | 0.756% |
| #76 | Modern Events Calendar | 479 | 0.754% |
| #77 | Bbpowerpack | 479 | 0.754% |
| #78 | Extra Sidebar Widgets | 434 | 0.684% |
| #79 | Prihod Ru Webmaster | 434 | 0.684% |
| #80 | Ortox Network Sites | 434 | 0.684% |
| #81 | Vamtam Push Menu | 427 | 0.673% |
| #82 | Foobox Image Lightbox | 423 | 0.666% |
| #83 | WP Mailto Links | 420 | 0.661% |
| #84 | Masterslider | 419 | 0.66% |
| #85 | Social Media Icons Widget | 414 | 0.652% |
| #86 | Feed Them Social | 401 | 0.632% |
| #87 | Dynamic To Top | 398 | 0.627% |
| #88 | Cleantalk Spam Protect | 397 | 0.625% |
| #89 | Column Shortcodes | 382 | 0.602% |
| #90 | Feeds For Youtube | 380 | 0.598% |
| #91 | Seriously Simple Podcasting | 376 | 0.592% |
| #92 | Google Language Translator | 375 | 0.591% |
| #93 | Ocean Extra | 370 | 0.583% |
| #94 | Shortcodes Ultimate | 369 | 0.581% |
| #95 | Salient Core | 367 | 0.578% |
| #96 | Sharedaddy | 366 | 0.576% |
| #97 | Constant Contact Forms | 364 | 0.573% |
| #98 | Gtranslate | 350 | 0.551% |
| #99 | Ezchurch | 346 | 0.545% |
| #100 | Recent Posts Widget With Thumbnails | 346 | 0.545% |
| Number of Church Websites Powered by WordPress | 63,494 | ||
| Last updated | April 6th, 2022 | ||
