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.
| # | Plugin Name | Total Websites | % of Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Contact Form 7 | 7,117 | 35.175% |
| #2 | Slider Revolution | 2,795 | 13.814% |
| #3 | WooCommerce | 2,204 | 10.893% |
| #4 | WPBakery Page Builder | 2,010 | 9.934% |
| #5 | Sitepress Multilingual CMS | 1,406 | 6.949% |
| #6 | Jetpack | 1,389 | 6.865% |
| #7 | Google Analytics For WordPress | 1,128 | 5.575% |
| #8 | Cookie Notice | 1,031 | 5.096% |
| #9 | The Events Calendar | 1,012 | 5.002% |
| #10 | Elementor Page Builder | 873 | 4.315% |
| #11 | Cookie Law Info | 858 | 4.241% |
| #12 | Instagram Feed | 784 | 3.875% |
| #13 | Layerslider | 748 | 3.697% |
| #14 | TablePress | 645 | 3.188% |
| #15 | Google Analytics Dashboard For WP | 575 | 2.842% |
| #16 | Nextgen Gallery | 565 | 2.792% |
| #17 | Page Builder by SiteOrigin | 530 | 2.619% |
| #18 | WP Pagenavi | 524 | 2.59% |
| #19 | MetaSlider | 486 | 2.402% |
| #20 | Easy Fancybox | 470 | 2.323% |
| #21 | Elementor Pro | 454 | 2.244% |
| #22 | Responsive Lightbox | 443 | 2.189% |
| #23 | MailChimp for WordPress | 440 | 2.175% |
| #24 | Photo Gallery | 440 | 2.175% |
| #25 | Events Calendar Pro | 421 | 2.081% |
| #26 | Page Links To | 416 | 2.056% |
| #27 | Gravity Forms | 413 | 2.041% |
| #28 | Events Manager | 391 | 1.932% |
| #29 | Add To Any | 383 | 1.893% |
| #30 | Max Mega Menu | 353 | 1.745% |
| #31 | WP Rocket | 348 | 1.72% |
| #32 | Simple Lightbox | 334 | 1.651% |
| #33 | Fusion Builder | 332 | 1.641% |
| #34 | All In One Event Calendar | 328 | 1.621% |
| #35 | SiteOrigin Widgets Bundle | 313 | 1.547% |
| #36 | Fusion Core | 312 | 1.542% |
| #37 | Custom Facebook Feed | 301 | 1.488% |
| #38 | Youtube Embed Plus | 279 | 1.379% |
| #39 | Gtranslate | 274 | 1.354% |
| #40 | Newsletter | 271 | 1.339% |
| #41 | Ultimate Vc Addons | 270 | 1.334% |
| #42 | Smart Slider 3 | 268 | 1.325% |
| #43 | Foobox Image Lightbox | 251 | 1.241% |
| #44 | Complianz GDPR | 232 | 1.147% |
| #45 | Masterslider | 228 | 1.127% |
| #46 | WP Smushit | 222 | 1.097% |
| #47 | Google Language Translator | 220 | 1.087% |
| #48 | Duracelltomi Google Tag Manager | 219 | 1.082% |
| #49 | Formidable Forms | 219 | 1.082% |
| #50 | Bb Plugin | 218 | 1.077% |
| #51 | EventOn | 208 | 1.028% |
| #52 | WP Google Maps | 207 | 1.023% |
| #53 | Borlabs Cookie | 202 | 0.998% |
| #54 | Autoptimize | 201 | 0.993% |
| #55 | WPML CMS Nav | 201 | 0.993% |
| #56 | Simple Calendar | 199 | 0.984% |
| #57 | Modern Events Calendar Lite | 198 | 0.979% |
| #58 | Give – Donation Plugin and Fundraising Platform | 192 | 0.949% |
| #59 | Wysija Newsletters | 182 | 0.9% |
| #60 | MailChimp For WooCommerce | 179 | 0.885% |
| #61 | GDPR Cookie Compliance | 175 | 0.865% |
| #62 | Monarch Social Media Sharing | 168 | 0.83% |
| #63 | Pojo Accessibility | 167 | 0.825% |
| #64 | WP Accessibility | 165 | 0.815% |
| #65 | Shortcodes Ultimate | 164 | 0.811% |
| #66 | Essential Grid Gallery Plugin | 162 | 0.801% |
| #67 | WooCommerce Multilingual | 160 | 0.791% |
| #68 | Ultimate Social Media Icons | 158 | 0.781% |
| #69 | WordPress Download Manager | 158 | 0.781% |
| #70 | Content Views Query And Display Post Page | 157 | 0.776% |
| #71 | Cf7 Conditional Fields | 150 | 0.741% |
| #72 | Column Shortcodes | 142 | 0.702% |
| #73 | Menu Icons | 136 | 0.672% |
| #74 | Simple Social Icons | 134 | 0.662% |
| #75 | WP Lightbox 2 | 133 | 0.657% |
| #76 | JS Composer Salient | 133 | 0.657% |
| #77 | Gutenberg | 132 | 0.652% |
| #78 | Google Analyticator | 132 | 0.652% |
| #79 | Addthis | 129 | 0.638% |
| #80 | Wpfront Scroll Top | 128 | 0.633% |
| #81 | WP Featherlight | 127 | 0.628% |
| #82 | Instagram Feed Pro | 127 | 0.628% |
| #83 | MapPress Maps for WordPress | 127 | 0.628% |
| #84 | UberMenu | 126 | 0.623% |
| #85 | Constant Contact Forms | 125 | 0.618% |
| #86 | Event Tickets | 122 | 0.603% |
| #87 | Widget Options | 117 | 0.578% |
| #88 | Enable jQuery Migrate Helper | 115 | 0.568% |
| #89 | Custom Facebook Feed Pro | 115 | 0.568% |
| #90 | Social Icons Widget By WPzoom | 115 | 0.568% |
| #91 | Contact Form 7 Datepicker | 114 | 0.563% |
| #92 | Simple Share Buttons Adder | 113 | 0.558% |
| #93 | WooCommerce Gateway Paypal Express Checkout | 112 | 0.554% |
| #94 | Gp Premium | 111 | 0.549% |
| #95 | Recent Posts Widget With Thumbnails | 111 | 0.549% |
| #96 | Captcha | 110 | 0.544% |
| #97 | My Calendar | 110 | 0.544% |
| #98 | EU Cookie Law | 110 | 0.544% |
| #99 | Cleantalk Spam Protect | 108 | 0.534% |
| #100 | jQuery Collapse O Matic | 107 | 0.529% |
| Number of Museum Websites Powered by WordPress | 20,233 | ||
| Last updated | April 7th, 2022 | ||
