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 | 21,453 | 35.597% |
| #2 | Slider Revolution | 9,523 | 15.801% |
| #3 | Jetpack | 6,781 | 11.252% |
| #4 | The Events Calendar | 6,638 | 11.014% |
| #5 | WPBakery Page Builder | 5,310 | 8.811% |
| #6 | Simple Calendar | 4,230 | 7.019% |
| #7 | Google Analytics For WordPress | 3,844 | 6.378% |
| #8 | Layerslider | 3,548 | 5.887% |
| #9 | All In One Event Calendar | 3,333 | 5.53% |
| #10 | WooCommerce | 2,772 | 4.6% |
| #11 | Youtube Embed Plus | 2,552 | 4.234% |
| #12 | Elementor Page Builder | 2,181 | 3.619% |
| #13 | Page Builder by SiteOrigin | 2,109 | 3.499% |
| #14 | Google Analytics Dashboard For WP | 1,931 | 3.204% |
| #15 | TablePress | 1,872 | 3.106% |
| #16 | MetaSlider | 1,845 | 3.061% |
| #17 | Custom Facebook Feed | 1,787 | 2.965% |
| #18 | Cookie Notice | 1,774 | 2.944% |
| #19 | Photo Gallery | 1,665 | 2.763% |
| #20 | WP Pagenavi | 1,564 | 2.595% |
| #21 | Nextgen Gallery | 1,537 | 2.55% |
| #22 | Page Links To | 1,508 | 2.502% |
| #23 | Events Manager | 1,482 | 2.459% |
| #24 | Wc Gallery | 1,433 | 2.378% |
| #25 | Instagram Feed | 1,401 | 2.325% |
| #26 | Essential Grid Gallery Plugin | 1,382 | 2.293% |
| #27 | SiteOrigin Widgets Bundle | 1,259 | 2.089% |
| #28 | Bb Plugin | 1,159 | 1.923% |
| #29 | MailChimp for WordPress | 1,117 | 1.853% |
| #30 | Give – Donation Plugin and Fundraising Platform | 1,110 | 1.842% |
| #31 | Simple Social Icons | 1,077 | 1.787% |
| #32 | Fusion Builder | 940 | 1.56% |
| #33 | Cookie Law Info | 930 | 1.543% |
| #34 | Seriously Simple Podcasting | 879 | 1.459% |
| #35 | WP Google Maps | 878 | 1.457% |
| #36 | Cornerstone | 875 | 1.452% |
| #37 | Fusion Core | 868 | 1.44% |
| #38 | Seriesengine Plugin | 842 | 1.397% |
| #39 | Responsive Lightbox | 835 | 1.386% |
| #40 | Gravity Forms | 832 | 1.381% |
| #41 | Wysija Newsletters | 832 | 1.381% |
| #42 | Add To Any | 816 | 1.354% |
| #43 | Easy Fancybox | 816 | 1.354% |
| #44 | Bible Verse Of The Day | 781 | 1.296% |
| #45 | Formidable Forms | 770 | 1.278% |
| #46 | Elementor Pro | 768 | 1.274% |
| #47 | MapPress Maps for WordPress | 757 | 1.256% |
| #48 | Gutenberg | 744 | 1.235% |
| #49 | Events Calendar Pro | 742 | 1.231% |
| #50 | EventOn | 731 | 1.213% |
| #51 | Seamless Donations | 709 | 1.176% |
| #52 | Sermon Manager For WordPress | 705 | 1.17% |
| #53 | Social Icons Widget By WPzoom | 700 | 1.161% |
| #54 | Max Mega Menu | 692 | 1.148% |
| #55 | Compact WP Audio Player | 662 | 1.098% |
| #56 | Social Media Icons Widget | 629 | 1.044% |
| #57 | Contact Widgets | 629 | 1.044% |
| #58 | Simple Lightbox | 629 | 1.044% |
| #59 | My Calendar | 620 | 1.029% |
| #60 | WordPress Download Manager | 608 | 1.009% |
| #61 | Smart Slider 3 | 604 | 1.002% |
| #62 | Monarch Social Media Sharing | 580 | 0.962% |
| #63 | Ultimate Vc Addons | 573 | 0.951% |
| #64 | Newsletter | 572 | 0.949% |
| #65 | Masterslider | 564 | 0.936% |
| #66 | Ultimate Social Media Icons | 548 | 0.909% |
| #67 | Vamtam Push Menu | 540 | 0.896% |
| #68 | Custom Facebook Feed Pro | 525 | 0.871% |
| #69 | Content Views Query And Display Post Page | 525 | 0.871% |
| #70 | Google Analyticator | 516 | 0.856% |
| #71 | Sitepress Multilingual CMS | 513 | 0.851% |
| #72 | Column Shortcodes | 502 | 0.833% |
| #73 | JS Composer Salient | 499 | 0.828% |
| #74 | Cromax | 497 | 0.825% |
| #75 | UK Cookie Consent | 490 | 0.813% |
| #76 | Ortox Network Sites | 486 | 0.806% |
| #77 | Extra Sidebar Widgets | 486 | 0.806% |
| #78 | Prihod Ru Webmaster | 486 | 0.806% |
| #79 | Simple Share Buttons Adder | 478 | 0.793% |
| #80 | Modern Events Calendar Lite | 471 | 0.782% |
| #81 | Social Media Widget | 471 | 0.782% |
| #82 | Feed Them Social | 466 | 0.773% |
| #83 | WP Rocket | 456 | 0.757% |
| #84 | Captcha | 455 | 0.755% |
| #85 | Genesis Responsive Slider | 454 | 0.753% |
| #86 | Dynamic To Top | 454 | 0.753% |
| #87 | Media Element Html5 Video And Audio Player | 450 | 0.747% |
| #88 | Download Monitor | 443 | 0.735% |
| #89 | Contact Form Plugin | 437 | 0.725% |
| #90 | jQuery Collapse O Matic | 422 | 0.7% |
| #91 | Shortcodes Ultimate | 421 | 0.699% |
| #92 | Modern Events Calendar | 418 | 0.694% |
| #93 | Sharedaddy | 417 | 0.692% |
| #94 | Foobox Image Lightbox | 411 | 0.682% |
| #95 | UberMenu | 409 | 0.679% |
| #96 | WP Mailto Links | 404 | 0.67% |
| #97 | Payment Imithemes | 402 | 0.667% |
| #98 | Google Language Translator | 394 | 0.654% |
| #99 | Themeisle Companion | 394 | 0.654% |
| #100 | Spider Event Calendar | 391 | 0.649% |
| Number of Church Websites Powered by WordPress | 60,267 | ||
| Last updated | August 4th, 2020 | ||
