by Jeff Starr 4.9 (38 reviews)

Simple Blog Stats

Name: Simple Blog Stats
Rating: 4.9 (38 reviews)
Author: Jeff Starr

Displays a wealth of useful statistics about your site. Display total number of posts, pages, categories, tags, and much more.

Simple Blog Stats ranks #3,522 among WordPress.org plugins with 4,000+ active installations, is #107 of 2,168 in the Analytics category, a 4.9/5 rating from 38 reviews, and was last updated Aug 9, 2026. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.

Compatible with WP 7.1.4

v20260809 Current Version v20260809

Updated 2 months ago Last Update on 09 Aug, 2026

Refreshed 18 hours ago Last Refreshed on

#107 of 2,168 in Analytics Top 5% by installs Downloads -19.5% this week

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4K+

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KW Avg Position

32.8

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Downloads

171.3K

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Rating

98%

Review 4.9 out of 5

4.9 (38 reviews)

Next Milestone 5K

Total Progress 42.6%

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Security History

Source: WPVulnerability

1 known vulnerability on record · 1 in the last 24 months · checked 1 month ago

May 7, 2025

Simple Blog Stats [simple-blog-stats] < 20250423

CVE-2025-47499 · Fixed in v20250423

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Plugin Details

Version: 20260809
Last Updated: Aug 09, 2026
Requires WP: 4.7+
Tested Up To: 7.1.4
PHP Version: 5.6.20 or higher
Author: Jeff Starr

Support & Rating

Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9
Reviews: 38
Support Threads: 0
Resolved: 0%

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TL;DR

AI summary of the plugin's readme

Simple Blog Stats is for WordPress site owners and theme developers who want to display site statistics like post, page, and comment counts. It solves the problem of manually tracking and displaying blog metrics by providing shortcodes and template tags to show stats anywhere in posts, pages, or themes.

Shortcodes for site statistics
Template tags for themes
Custom Post Type counts
Logged-in users display
Dashboard widget for stats
Word count for posts
Recent posts and comments list
Caching for performance

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about Simple Blog Stats

The plugin provides a filter hook for customizing the total number of posts that are displayed using the [sbs_posts] shortcode. To do it, add the following snippet to your theme functions.php file, or add via custom plugin: function sbs_get_posts_limit_custom($limit) { return 100; } add_filter('sbs_get_posts_limit', 'sbs_get_posts_limit_custom'); No changes need made; simply edit the 100 to whatever is desired and done.

By default the [sbs_updated] shortcode includes only posts that have "publish" post status. To customize the post status, add the following code to your theme (or child theme's) functions.php file, or add via custom plugin: function sbs_updated_post_status($status) { return 'publish,draft,pending'; // whatever post statuses } add_filter('sbs_updated_post_status', 'sbs_updated_post_status'); Notice where it says publish,draft,pending, that determines which post statuses are included. You can change/edit as needed.

By default the [sbs_updated] shortcode includes only posts (post type = post). To customize the post type, add the following code to your theme (or child theme's) functions.php file, or add via custom plugin: function sbs_updated_post_type($type) { return array('post', 'book'); // whatever post types } add_filter('sbs_updated_post_type', 'sbs_updated_post_type'); You can edit the return array with whatever post types are required.

Many of the plugin's shortcodes provide an attribute to specify the separator used for numbers (see documentation under the Installation tab). For the shortcodes that do not yet provide an attribute, it is possible to do it with a bit of JavaScript, check out this post.

By default, the plugin formats long numbers with commas. To remove/disable the commas for the [sbs_media_count] shortcode, add the following code to your theme (or child theme) functions.php, or add via custom plugin: function sbs_include_commas($enable) { return false; } add_filter('sbs_include_commas', 'sbs_include_commas'); Save changes and done. Note: currently this works only with the shortcode, [sbs_media_count].

For sites with many many posts and/or posts with LOTS of words. Depending on server capacity, PHP may time out when trying to go through and count everything. As a workaround solution, it's possible to disable the "all word count" shortcode by adding the following code to your theme functions.php, or add via custom plugin: function sbs_word_count_all_disable($disable) { return true; } add_filter('sbs_word_count_all_disable', 'sbs_word_count_all_disable');

By default, the shortcode [sbs_word_count_all] counts words in posts from any/all post types. To customize the post type, add the following code to your theme functions.php, or add via custom plugin: function sbs_word_count_all_post_type($type) { return array('post', 'page', 'movie', 'book'); // whatever post types } add_filter('sbs_word_count_all_post_type', 'sbs_word_count_all_post_type'); You can customize the post types in the array as desired.

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