WP Most Popular
by MattGeri 4.9 (11 reviews)

WP Most Popular

WP Most Popular is a simple plugin which tracks your most popular blog posts based on views and lets you display them in your theme or blog sidebar.

WP Most Popular ranks #5,115 among WordPress.org plugins with 2,000+ active installations, a 4.9/5 rating from 11 reviews, and was last updated Aug 7, 2018. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.

Tested up to WP 4.9 (Current: 7.1)
v0.3.1 Current Version v0.3.1
Updated 8 years ago Last Update on 07 Aug, 2018
Refreshed 11 hours ago Last Refreshed on
Top 10% by installs No update in over a year
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Rank
#5,115
-1 this week
Active Installs
2K+
-28.2%
KW Avg Position
N/A
No change
Downloads
81K
+5 today
Support Resolved
0%
No change
Rating
98%
Review 4.9 out of 5
4.9 (11 reviews)

Next Milestone 3K

Total Progress 78%
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Growth Needed
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Rank Changes

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Active Installs Growth

Active Installs 0,000,000+
Growth +0.0%
Peak 0,000,000

Downloads Growth

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Reviews & Ratings

4.9
11 reviews
Overall 98%
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10 (91%)
4
1 (9%)
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Security History

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Plugin Details

Version
0.3.1
Last Updated
Aug 07, 2018
Requires WP
3.0+
Tested Up To
4.9
PHP Version
5.2.4 or higher
Author
MattGeri

Support & Rating

Rating
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Reviews
11
Support Threads
0
Resolved
0%

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TL;DR

AI summary of the plugin's readme

WP Most Popular is for bloggers and theme developers who want to highlight their most-viewed posts. It solves the problem of ranking and displaying popular blog posts based on view counts over different time periods.

  • Tracks post views
  • Ranks most popular posts
  • Sidebar widget display
  • Custom theme integration function
  • Popular custom post types support
  • Filter by time range
  • Filters for list output
  • Action hook for list items

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about WP Most Popular

99% of the time this is because no posts have been visited yet to receive a ranking. Simply click on a blog post to read it on your blog and it will receive a ranking and display in the list of most popular posts.
You will need a web server or shared host that supports PHP version 5 or newer. Javascript is also required to log post views.
The original version of the plugin that I wrote used PHP to track the post views and the reason why I switched to Javascript was because if a caching plugin is enabled on your blog, the page will be loaded statically to your visitor and the PHP code to log a view on a post will not be run.
Yes, please do so on the WordPress support forum for the plugin. I will consider it and if I feel it is worth adding, I will schedule it for a future release.
Yes! The plugin is open source and I host it on Github. Feel free to send me pull requests.
This plugin is managed by WP Geeks and you can contact our support team on our website.

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