WordPress Popular Posts WordPress Plugin
WordPress Popular Posts is a highly customizable widget that displays the most popular posts on your blog.
Main Features
- Multi-widget capable. That is, you can have several widgets of WordPress Popular Posts on your blog - each with its own settings!
- Time Range - list those posts of your blog that have been the most popular ones within a specific time range (eg. last 24 hours, last 7 days, last 30 days, etc.)!
- Custom Post-type support. Wanna show other stuff than just posts and pages?
- Display a thumbnail of your posts! (see the FAQ section for technical requirements).
- Use your own layout! Control how your most popular posts are shown on your theme.
- WPML support!
- WordPress Multisite support!
Other Features
- Check the statistics on your most popular posts from wp-admin.
- Order your popular list by comments, views (default) or average views per day!
- Shortcode support - use the [wpp] shortcode to showcase your most popular posts on pages, too! For usage and instructions, please refer to the installation section.
- Template tags - Don't feel like using widgets? No problem! You can still embed your most popular entries on your theme using the wpp_get_mostpopular() template tag. Additionally, the wpp_gets_views() template tag allows you to retrieve the views count for a particular post. For usage and instructions, please refer to the installation section.
- Localizable to your own language (See the FAQ section for more info).
- WP-PostRatings support. Show your visitors how your readers are rating your posts!
Notices
- Starting version 3.0.0, the way plugin tracks views count switched back to AJAX. The reason for this change is to prevent bots / spiders from inflating views count, so if you're using a caching plugin you should clear its cache after installing / upgrading the WordPress Popular Posts plugin so it can track your posts and pages normally.
WordPress Popular Posts is now also on GitHub!
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Usage of WordPress Popular Posts over time
June 2023 — July 2024Between June 2023 and July 2024 the number of sites running this plugin went from 17 024 to 13 921 — down 3 103 (-18.2%).
| Month | Sites | Change |
|---|---|---|
| July 2024 | 13 921 | -820 |
| June 2024 | 14 741 | -193 |
| May 2024 | 14 934 | +37 |
| April 2024 | 14 897 | +73 |
| March 2024 | 14 824 | -141 |
| February 2024 | 14 965 | -517 |
| January 2024 | 15 482 | -328 |
| December 2023 | 15 810 | +265 |
| November 2023 | 15 545 | +60 |
| October 2023 | 15 485 | -527 |
| September 2023 | 16 012 | -450 |
| August 2023 | 16 462 | -418 |
| July 2023 | 16 880 | -144 |
| June 2023 | 17 024 | — |
Themes used with WordPress Popular Posts
Detected most often on sites that run this plugin.
| # | Theme |
|---|---|
| 1 | Genesis |
| 2 | Divi |
| 3 | Bimber |
| 4 | Simplicity2 |
| 5 | Twentytwelve |
| 6 | Simplicity2-child |
| 7 | Simplicity |
| 8 | Generatepress |
| 9 | Simplicity-child |
| 10 | Newspaper |
| 11 | Avada |
| 12 | Twentyeleven |
| 13 | Twentyfourteen |
| 14 | Cocoon-master |
| 15 | Canvas |
| 16 | Astra |
| 17 | Bimber-child-theme |
| 18 | Cocoon-child-master |
| 19 | Divi-child |
| 20 | Enfold |
Sites running WordPress Popular Posts
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