Most Popular Words In Plugin Names

Behold, I bring you even more WordPress-related statistics! Today : the most popular words in plugin names. Use them to come up with new plugin ideas, figure out which services/features are over- or under-represented in the WP plugin ecosystem, and more.

Here’s a tag cloud of the names of all plugins listed in the WordPress.org directory (click the image for a higher-res version) :

The above tag cloud has been filtered to exclude extremely common words like “WordPress” and “Plugin”. You can also view the unfiltered tag cloud.

For those who prefer precise numbers, I’ve also prepared a Top 30 list of the most popular words. This one’s not filtered in any way except converting all words to their base form (e.g. “posts” -> “post”, “commenting” -> “comment”, etc) :

Word	Occurences
WP	803
Widget	506
WordPress	465
Post	400
Plugin	329
Comment	290
Link	198
Page	184
Tag	141
Image	140
Twitter	128
Category	128
Google	128
Simple	114
List	100
Admin	98
Search	97
Gallery	95
User	86
Manage	85
Custom	83
Feed	79
Blog	76
Random	75
Theme	65
Login	64
Author	64
RSS	64
Content	62
Social	60
Video	60
Recent	56
SEO	56
New	55
Dashboard	54
My	54
Easy	53
Button	53
AJAX	52
Code	51
Stats	49
Form	48

Just pick any two (or three) words from the above table and you’re almost guaranteed to get a plausible-sounding plugin name 🙂

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