Provide two widgets, showing lists of the most and reast read posts.

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“Most And Least Read Posts Widget” is a free plugin for WordPress. developed by Giuliano Polverari (WhileTrue.it) to generate lists of the most and least read posts.
The following options are customizable:
<ul>
<li>number of posts to show</li>
<li>exclude posts whose title contains certain words</li>
<li>show post hits after the title (style customizable via CSS class)</li>
<li>exclude posts older than XX days</li>
</ul>
The plugin starts counting hits once activated, storing them in the “custom_total_hits” custom field without the need of external accounts.
The most popular web crawlers (e.g. Googlebot) are recognized and their hits discarded; also Admin hits are discarded.
Archived post hits are shown in a column inside the backend post list.
The plugin is compatible with multi-language WPML plugin, showing most/least read posts for current language.
Optionally, the number of hits can be shown inside the post content, with:
<ul>
<li>a custom phrase, e.g. “This post has already been read XX times!”</li>
<li>a custom position (above the post, below the post, both)</li>
<li>a custom CSS style</li>
</ul>
If you want to show the post hits anywhere inside the template loop, you can the PHP function provided, e.g.:
<pre><code>echo most_and_least_read_posts_get_hits(get_the_ID());
</code></pre>
<h4>Shortcode</h4>
Also, [most_read_posts] a shortcode is available. Use it like this:
<pre><code>[most_read_posts type="most" posts_number="5" show_thumbs="false" date_from="2016-01-01" date_to="2016-04-30"]
</code></pre>
Shortcode attributes:
<ul>
<li>type: “most” or “least”</li>
<li>posts_number</li>
<li>words_excluded</li>
<li>title_max_chars</li>
<li>excerpt_max_chars</li>
<li>show_thumbs: “true” or “false”</li>
<li>add_line_break_before_thumbs: “true” or “false”</li>
<li>show_hits: “true” or “false”</li>
<li>show_hits_text (default: “views”)</li>
<li>days_ago</li>
<li>date_from and date_to: if set, overwrite the “days_ago” attribute (format: YYYY-MM-DD)</li>
</ul>
<h4>Reference</h4>
For more informations: <a href="https://www.whiletrue.it/most-and-least-read-posts-widget-for-wordpress/" title="www.whiletrue.it" rel="nofollow ugc">www.whiletrue.it</a>
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