Top 23 wordpress-plugin Open-Source Projects

1. gutenberg

   1 108 11,681 10.0 JavaScript

   The Block Editor project for WordPress and beyond. Plugin is available from the official repository.

   

   Project mention: Developing new static analyzer: PVS-Studio JavaScript | dev.to | 2026-04-15

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2. SaaSHub

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3. wp-graphql

   2 54 3,780 9.7 PHP

   :rocket: GraphQL API for WordPress

   

   Project mention: WordPress, Ghost, Hugo? The great CMS war | dev.to | 2025-08-28

   WPGraphQL GraphQL endpoint for headless setups (yes, it’s legit)

4. git-updater

   3 6 3,320 9.5 PHP

   This WP plugin will update GitHub, Bitbucket, GitLab, and Gitea hosted plugins and themes

   

5. S3-Uploads

   4 12 2,140 7.1 PHP

   The WordPress Plugin to Store Uploads on Amazon S3

   

6. jetpack

   5 15 1,812 10.0 PHP

   Security, performance, marketing, and design tools — Jetpack is made by WordPress experts to make WP sites safer and faster, and help you grow your traffic.

   

   Project mention: Flat Rate Website Acceleration Tools for Agencies | dev.to | 2026-01-07

   Jetpack Complete bundles security, backups, performance, and design tools. Flat rate for up to 10,000 sites.

7. amp-wp

   6 4 1,803 9.2 PHP

   Enable AMP on your WordPress site, the WordPress way.

   

8. WPGulp

   7 4 1,757 0.0 JavaScript

   An advanced Gulp workflow for WordPress development with extensive documentation. Used by 40,000+ themes and plugins.

   

9. wp2static

   8 22 1,460 3.3 PHP

   WordPress static site generator for security, performance and cost benefits

   

10. advanced-custom-fields-pro

    9 4 1,348 5.8 PHP

    Advanced Custom Fields Pro, Git-ified. Automatically synced via GitHub Actions! This repository is just a mirror of the Advanced Custom Fields Pro plugin. Please do not send pull requests and issues.

    

11. ElasticPress

    10 5 1,297 9.6 PHP

    A fast and flexible search and query engine for WordPress.

    

12. wordpress-static-site-exporter

    11 1 1,071 9.0 PHP

    One-click WordPress plugin that converts all posts, pages, taxonomies, metadata, and settings to Markdown and YAML which can be dropped into Jekyll (or Hugo or any other Markdown and YAML based site engine).

    

13. acorn

    12 3 972 8.6 PHP

    Integrate Laravel functionality into WordPress projects (by roots)

    

14. two-factor

    13 2 810 9.5 PHP

    Two-Factor Authentication for WordPress.

    

15. coblocks

    14 1 793 4.3 JavaScript

    A suite of professional page building content blocks for the WordPress Gutenberg block editor.

    

16. wp-rocket

    15 4 750 9.8 PHP

    Performance optimization plugin for WordPress

    

17. classifai

    16 1 704 9.7 PHP

    Supercharge WordPress Content Workflows and Engagement with Artificial Intelligence.

    

18. wp-graphql-woocommerce

    17 6 699 4.5 PHP

    Add WooCommerce support and functionality to your WPGraphQL server

    

19. intervention

    18 1 642 1.9 PHP

    WordPress plugin to configure wp-admin and application state using a single config file.

    

20. qtranslate-xt

    19 3 602 8.9 PHP

    qTranslate-XT (eXTended) - reviving qTranslate-X multilingual plugin for WordPress. A new community-driven plugin soon. Built-in modules for WooCommerce, ACF, slugs and others.

    

21. wordpress-activitypub

    20 22 570 9.9 PHP

    ActivityPub for WordPress

    

    Project mention: Introduction to Bluesky's at Protocol | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-08-20

    What do you mean? WordPress already supports ActivityPub through their plugin:

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/activitypub/

    I follow a few blogs on Mastodon just fine (for example John Carlos Baez's Azimuth, https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/), it's just like an RSS reader in your timeline.

22. laps

    21 3 565 0.0 PHP

    Light WordPress profiler.

    

23. Cavalcade

    22 4 538 0.0 PHP

    A better wp-cron. Horizontally scalable, works perfectly with multisite.

    

24. redis-cache

    23 7 527 7.6 PHP

    A persistent object cache backend for WordPress powered by Redis. Supports Predis, PhpRedis, Relay, replication, sentinels, clustering and WP-CLI.

    

    Project mention: Does it Make Sense to Run WordPress in Docker? | dev.to | 2025-08-07

    Caching, at a certain scale it makes sense to add caching to speed up requests, for example use Redis via the Redis Cache plugin

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