Lightweight popular-posts engine. Track page views and comments, display top posts by today, this week, this month, or all-time.

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Mostify is a fast, no-bloat popular-posts plugin that turns your WordPress views and comments into ranked lists you can drop anywhere via shortcode, widget, or Gutenberg block.
It uses a pre-aggregated bucket schema (one row per post per time bucket) so ranking queries stay snappy even on sites with millions of pageviews — no on-the-fly aggregation, no JOIN fan-out, no slow <code>wp_postmeta</code> scans.
<h4>Highlights</h4>
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<li>Page-views counter — AJAX tracking with bot detection, per-visitor cookie deduplication, and a <code>mostify_should_track_view</code> filter for custom rules.</li>
<li>Comments counter — counts approved comments (auto-approved + admin-approved transitions).</li>
<li>Time-period rankings — <code>today</code>, <code>yesterday</code>, <code>past_24_hours</code>, <code>this_week</code>, <code>last_week</code>, <code>past_7_days</code>, <code>this_month</code>, <code>last_month</code>, <code>past_30_days</code>, <code>this_year</code>, <code>last_year</code>, <code>past_12_months</code>, <code>all_time</code>.</li>
<li>Custom periods — build any window via <code>custom_hours_N</code>, <code>custom_days_N</code>, <code>custom_months_N</code>.</li>
<li>4 list styles — simple, bars, cards, medal (top-3 medal emoji).</li>
<li>Multi-tab layouts — show several time periods side by side in one block, each tab with its own period and sort order. Choose from 4 tab styles: horizontal tabs, vertical tabs, horizontal accordion, vertical accordion. Leave tabs empty to render a single period exactly as before.</li>
<li>10 color presets — ocean, sunset, forest, berry, fire, midnight, coral, arctic, earth, neon — plus theme inheritance and custom CSS.</li>
<li>Views migration — one-click import of lifetime view counts from popular counter plugins so you can switch to Mostify without resetting your rankings to zero. Supports WordPress Popular Posts, Post Views Counter, WP-PostViews, WP Statistics, Top 10 — Popular Posts, and Jetpack Stats. Runs as a batched background job with live progress.</li>
<li>Display surfaces — shortcode <code>[mostify]</code>, classic widget, server-rendered Gutenberg block, post-editor meta box, auto-insert into the_content.</li>
<li>Admin chart — per-post hourly / daily / monthly histogram with period switcher.</li>
<li>Performance — 3-tier cache (request memo + object cache + transient), optional batch-write buffer for high-traffic sites.</li>
<li>Capabilities — role-based access via the <code>mostify_edit</code> and <code>mostify_view</code> capabilities.</li>
<li>Privacy — no third-party tracking. View tracking happens entirely on your own server.</li>
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<h3>Privacy</h3>
Mostify stores anonymous, per-post view counts on your own database. No personal data, no IP addresses, and no third-party services are involved. The view-tracking AJAX endpoint sets a single first-party cookie (<code>mostify_v_<post_id></code>, default 3-hour TTL) used solely for deduplication; cookie name and TTL are filterable. The plugin makes no outbound HTTP calls.

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