Plugin Madness 2024 has arrived!
It’s time for Torque’s annual Plugin Madness contest — the spring classic where 64 plugins enter the technical arena to determine which one is the most beloved on WordPress.
With nearly 60,000 plugins available in the official WordPress catalog and an ever-expanding premium plugin market, there’s no shortage of options when it comes to enhancing your WordPress site and workflow.
Plugin Madness is your chance to showcase the most innovative and impressive WordPress plugins—the ones that streamline processes, enhance your designs, and improve functionality across all sites—and the talented developers who create them.
Your votes will be instrumental in crowning this year’s Plugin Madness winner. But first, the Torque team needs your help to nominate your favorite MVP (Most Valuable Plugin) before the madness begins.
Additional Nominations and Voting Schedule
Plugin Madness kicks off with an awesome lineup: 64 of the best, most useful WordPress plugins divided into four categories: Marketing, Optimization, Maintenance, and Ecommerce. The Torque team relies on WordPress enthusiasts like you to define the plugins that make a significant impact on your WordPress journey.
Whether it’s a plugin that revolutionized your workflow, solved complex challenges with ease, or simply took your website to new heights, it can’t get the recognition it deserves without a nomination!
So be sure to take the time to submit your favorites by heading over to Torque—Nominations are open from 12 February to 26 February 2024.
To be eligible for nomination, plugins must be listed in the WordPress Plugin Repository, updated within the last 12 months, and compatible with WordPress 6.2+.
Once nominations close, Torque staff will review and categorize the plugins with the most nominations into the aforementioned categories: Marketing, Optimization, Maintenance, and eCommerce.
After submitting your nomination, your work is not done! To ensure your favorites make it to the end, you’ll need to keep coming back as they compete head-to-head in weekly voting rounds. The voting schedule is as follows:
- Week 1 (64): March 4–10
- Week 2 (32): March 11–17
- Week 3 (16): March 18–24
- Week 4 (8): March 25–31
- Week 5 (4): April 1–7
- Week 6 (2): April 8–14
- Winner announced: April 15th
Past Plugin Madness Winners
Over the past eight years, the competition for the Plugin Madness crown has grown fiercer. Last year, Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) won for the second time after taking gold during the inaugural tournament in 2016.
Other past winners include The Plus Addons for Elementor (2022), FluentCRM (2021), Elementor (2019 & 2020) and Smush (2017 & 2018).
While these powerhouse additions may make another deep run this year, which, if any, Cinderella stories will rise to the top?
Only the WordPress community can decide which plugin will be declared the winner of Plugin Madness 2024!
Submit your nominations today!
Nominations are open until February 26th, so be sure to submit your favorite plugins before the deadline. Then head over to Torque every Monday and keep voting to push your favorite plugins to the top!
