Most Popular WordPress Plugins for Museums

Were you tasked with creating a new website for a museum or updating an existing one, but need to add some extra flair to it? That’s what some WordPress plugins can help you with.

We monitor and analyze over 74,000 unique museum websites, ~27% of which are powered by WordPress.

Here are the Top 100 Most Used WordPress Plugins on museum websites from all around the world. We hope that this ranking of plugins will help you identify some of the most common features of museum websites.

One such example is WPML (Sitepress Multilingual CMS), a paid plugin that lets you create a multilingual WordPress website. This plugin has an unusually high ranking (#6), even if it’s a paid plugin. But it can be easily explained. Museums are usually important tourist attractions, so it makes sense to have these websites translated into multiple languages, hence the increased popularity of WPML.

We have several WordPress Themes for Museums 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.


The Most Used WordPress Plugins on Museum Websites
#Plugin NameTotal Websites% of Total
#1Contact Form 77,11735.175%
#2Slider Revolution2,79513.814%
#3WooCommerce2,20410.893%
#4WPBakery Page Builder2,0109.934%
#5Sitepress Multilingual CMS1,4066.949%
#6Jetpack1,3896.865%
#7Google Analytics For WordPress1,1285.575%
#8Cookie Notice1,0315.096%
#9The Events Calendar1,0125.002%
#10Elementor Page Builder8734.315%
#11Cookie Law Info8584.241%
#12Instagram Feed7843.875%
#13Layerslider7483.697%
#14TablePress6453.188%
#15Google Analytics Dashboard For WP5752.842%
#16Nextgen Gallery5652.792%
#17Page Builder by SiteOrigin5302.619%
#18WP Pagenavi5242.59%
#19MetaSlider4862.402%
#20Easy Fancybox4702.323%
#21Elementor Pro4542.244%
#22Responsive Lightbox4432.189%
#23MailChimp for WordPress4402.175%
#24Photo Gallery4402.175%
#25Events Calendar Pro4212.081%
#26Page Links To4162.056%
#27Gravity Forms4132.041%
#28Events Manager3911.932%
#29Add To Any3831.893%
#30Max Mega Menu3531.745%
#31WP Rocket3481.72%
#32Simple Lightbox3341.651%
#33Fusion Builder3321.641%
#34All In One Event Calendar3281.621%
#35SiteOrigin Widgets Bundle3131.547%
#36Fusion Core3121.542%
#37Custom Facebook Feed3011.488%
#38Youtube Embed Plus2791.379%
#39Gtranslate2741.354%
#40Newsletter2711.339%
#41Ultimate Vc Addons2701.334%
#42Smart Slider 32681.325%
#43Foobox Image Lightbox2511.241%
#44Complianz GDPR2321.147%
#45Masterslider2281.127%
#46WP Smushit2221.097%
#47Google Language Translator2201.087%
#48Duracelltomi Google Tag Manager2191.082%
#49Formidable Forms2191.082%
#50Bb Plugin2181.077%
#51EventOn2081.028%
#52WP Google Maps2071.023%
#53Borlabs Cookie2020.998%
#54Autoptimize2010.993%
#55WPML CMS Nav2010.993%
#56Simple Calendar1990.984%
#57Modern Events Calendar Lite1980.979%
#58Give – Donation Plugin and Fundraising Platform1920.949%
#59Wysija Newsletters1820.9%
#60MailChimp For WooCommerce1790.885%
#61GDPR Cookie Compliance1750.865%
#62Monarch Social Media Sharing1680.83%
#63Pojo Accessibility1670.825%
#64WP Accessibility1650.815%
#65Shortcodes Ultimate1640.811%
#66Essential Grid Gallery Plugin1620.801%
#67WooCommerce Multilingual1600.791%
#68Ultimate Social Media Icons1580.781%
#69WordPress Download Manager1580.781%
#70Content Views Query And Display Post Page1570.776%
#71Cf7 Conditional Fields1500.741%
#72Column Shortcodes1420.702%
#73Menu Icons1360.672%
#74Simple Social Icons1340.662%
#75WP Lightbox 21330.657%
#76JS Composer Salient1330.657%
#77Gutenberg1320.652%
#78Google Analyticator1320.652%
#79Addthis1290.638%
#80Wpfront Scroll Top1280.633%
#81WP Featherlight1270.628%
#82Instagram Feed Pro1270.628%
#83MapPress Maps for WordPress1270.628%
#84UberMenu1260.623%
#85Constant Contact Forms1250.618%
#86Event Tickets1220.603%
#87Widget Options1170.578%
#88Enable jQuery Migrate Helper1150.568%
#89Custom Facebook Feed Pro1150.568%
#90Social Icons Widget By WPzoom1150.568%
#91Contact Form 7 Datepicker1140.563%
#92Simple Share Buttons Adder1130.558%
#93WooCommerce Gateway Paypal Express Checkout1120.554%
#94Gp Premium1110.549%
#95Recent Posts Widget With Thumbnails1110.549%
#96Captcha1100.544%
#97My Calendar1100.544%
#98EU Cookie Law1100.544%
#99Cleantalk Spam Protect1080.534%
#100jQuery Collapse O Matic1070.529%
Number of Museum Websites Powered by WordPress20,233
Last updatedApril 7th, 2022