Folder path: wp-content/plugins/plugin-child
A child plugin is an extension of a parent plugin. They allow developers to modify an existing plugin without directly editing the WordPress theme code and they are transportable. They can be installed on more than one self hosted WordPress website to make minor colour changes and complex custom overrides of the parent plugin.
By most downloaded
1st place, SEO Yoast remains as the all-time most downloaded plugin from the WordPress Plugin Directory. The Team Yoast SEO plugin is designed to maximise your on page SEO effectiveness to search engines and boasts a total of 754,798,545 downloads since its publication on WordPress.org.
2nd place goes to Elementor which supersedes other page builder tools despite Gutenberg "natively" offering many of the features it offers. Elementor grants less technical website designers with a page building tool that can deploy WordPress agency style web pages and landing pages without requiring programming knowledge.
Jetpack was a wise time investment for the WordPress founders Automattic taking the 3rd spot. Jetpack improves WordPress content curation and contains security tools, analytics tools and Jetpack AI assist. Jetpack is ranked as the 3rd most downloaded WordPress plugin despite it no longer being bundled with the latest version of WordPress.
Wordfence Security leads as the WordPress security plugin of choice with 365,933,434 downloads. Contact Form 7 is the most popular contact form WP plugin with 357,478,610 downloads and WooCommerce takes a major share of WordPress ecommerce functionality with 354,572,606 downloads.
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