Top 10 WordPress Plugin Developers

Christmas! New Year! Cthulhu!As the year is coming to an end, perhaps it’s time for a different kind of “Top X” post. Instead of a list of new WP plugins to try out, here are the top plugin authors – the brilliant people who create outstanding tools and share them with the WordPress community.

The list is ranked by the number of downloads from the wordpress.org plugin directory. Also check out the big Top 1000 table.

  1. Michael Torbert
    961 306 downloads. Co-author of All In One SEO Pack (originally created by Uberdose).
  2. Matt Mullenweg
    921 827 downloads. Everybody knows Matt, the main WP dev and author of Akismet.
  3. Lester ‘GaMerZ’ Chan
    775 220 downloads. Author of WP-Polls and other cool plugins.
  4. Arne Brachhold
    628 350 downloads. Author of Google XML Sitemaps, etc.
  5. Andy Skelton
    449 345 downloads. Author of WordPress.com Stats. Another dedicated hacker.
  6. Alex Rabe
    429 705 downloads. Author of NextGEN Gallery, etc.
  7. Oliver Seidel
    361 918 downloads. Author of cforms II.
  8. Joost de Valk
    328 036 downloads. Author of Sociable, Google Analytics for WP and numerous other tools.
  9. Donncha O Caoimh
    246 752 downloads. Author of WP Super Cache and other assorted plugins.
  10. Vladimir Prelovac
    244 963 downloads. Author of Smart YouTube, various SEO plugins, and more.

Special Mentions

Notes

I got the source data by using the mostly undocumented WordPress.org plugin API. First I downloaded all the plugin metadata I could get, which turned out to be 3688 plugin records. Then, with some simple SQL magic, I found all distinct authors (2190 unique names) and how many plugin downloads each author has. You can see a selection of the results above.

Granted, the aggregate stats may not be entirely accurate. For example, if a plugin had the “Author” field set to “John Smith and Jane Doe”, it would be treated as a new, distinct author and wouldn’t count towards the download total of either John or Jane. Perhaps that’s not such a big problem anyway :P

I’m #37, yay?

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    aLee says:
    January 4, 2009 at 18:08

    great.. wordpress rocks!!
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    Alex Vugdelija - CEO of VIZIOSHOP.com says:
    January 7, 2009 at 15:48

    I am honored to have Vladimir Prelovac as friend !!

    Just to let you know that he is great decent, but genius guy !

    I was also using his plug-in wp-wall for online chat on wordpress, on one site with huge community, and I must tell you, it works great, and on the other side, in this several months he made additional improvements from my suggestions, without problems.

    Stay the way you are man !!!

    “BRAVO CIMERU !!!! :) ”

    Sincerelly, Alex, Ceo of vizioshop.com, online t-shirt shop

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    saravanakumar says:
    January 22, 2009 at 10:18

    nice articles.thanks

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    February 11, 2009 at 05:46

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    Fu4ny says:
    February 23, 2009 at 13:11

    I think you should use a better spam catcher :) .
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    White Shadow says:
    February 23, 2009 at 13:49

    Indeed. I had a better one but it slowed down the site too much :/

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    rap dinle says:
    February 26, 2009 at 23:25

    Good.
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    March 26, 2009 at 11:04

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    brad pitt says:
    August 21, 2009 at 05:07

    Amazing! Thank you! Will definitely be checking some of these out on my blog!

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    December 28, 2009 at 12:44

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    ø Top 10 Plugin Developers Of 2009 | W-Shadow.com ø says:
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    Nimit Kashyap says:
    February 6, 2010 at 03:13

    Very useful Post! really helped me out! hope to check more out soon

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    Best WP Plugins says:
    February 23, 2010 at 01:07

    Can you provide more information on other wordpress plugins, or do you have some resources you can share with us where we can find such useful stuff? Thanks.

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    game says:
    March 10, 2010 at 23:36

    wooow, that is amazing and pure nice. Thank you.

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