Nick Adams

Revault Media

<p>This easy to use WordPress plugin is designed to add a new feature for theme developers. Used on many of my own websites as well as those of my clients, the plugin allows me to quickly add a collection of popular posts to any theme element.</p>
<p>The plugin can easily be used by website owners as a WordPress Widget, adding lists of posts to the Sidebar of a WordPress website.</p>
<h4>About the plugin</h4>
<p>More advanced users can also call the functionality of the plugin from a WordPress shortcode by adding the code <code>[thisismyurl_easy_popular_posts]</code> to any Post or Page within WordPress.</p>
<p>Finally, theme authors may also take advantage of the plugin by calling the functionality directly from theme files with the code <code>thisismyurl_easy_popular_posts();</code>.</p>
<p>This plugin was originally authored by Christopher Ross.</p>
<p>Questions about this plugin can be posted to the WordPress.org forums at https://wordpress.org/plugins/easy-popular-posts/, or to the Issues tab at the GitHub https://github.com/thisismyurl/easy-popular-posts repository for the plugin.</p>
<p>This plugin is currently available in:</p>
<ul>
<li>English</li>
<li>French</li>
<li>German</li>
</ul>
<h3>Updates</h3>
<p>Updates to this plugin will be posted to the GitHub repository for testing prior to updates on WordPress.org, if you’d like to help make this plugin better please consider taking part in regular code reviews of releases at the GitHub repository.</p>
<h3>Donations</h3>
<p>Open source software such as this free WordPress plugin only work through the hard work of community members, volunteering their time or resources to make the software freely available. If you would like to show your support for this software, please consider donating towards the development effort.</p>
<p>If you can’t contribute to the plugin in any other way, please consider translating it to your local language.</p>


Easy Popular Posts

An easy to use WordPress function to add popular posts to any theme.

MattGeri

WP Geeks

<p>WP Most Popular was born out of frustration in finding a decent plugin which performs one simple task and that is to rank your most popular blog posts.</p>
<p>The plugin keeps a log of your most popular posts based on views and lets you display them in your blog theme with custom styling. You can display popular posts from the last day, 7 days, 30 days or all time.</p>
<p>It also comes with a sidebar widget to let you display your popular posts on your blogs sidebar.</p>
<p>If you are a developer and integrate the plugin in to a theme, you will get a lot more flexibility out of the plugin including the ability to show the most popular custom post types etc.</p>
<p>This plugin was built and is maintained by <a href="https://wpgeeks.com" rel="nofollow ugc">WP Geeks</a>. For extra documentation, videos, snippets and support, visit the <a href="https://wpgeeks.com/product/wp-most-popular/" rel="nofollow ugc">WP Most Popular</a> product page.</p>
<h3>Usage</h3>
<p>There are two ways in which you can use this plugin.</p>
<ol>
<li>As a sidebar widget</li>
<li>Custom function in your theme files</li>
</ol>
<p>Using the widget is the easiest way and recommended for most users. If you are a developer and want to integrate the plugin in to your existing theme, then read the information below.</p>
<p>Firstly, the main function which you will need to include in your theme to fetch the popular posts is called <code>wp_most_popular_get_popular()</code>.</p>
<p>You can pass that function the following parameters in array form:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>limit</strong> (integer)
<ul>
<li>The number of posts you would like to display i.e. 5</li>
<li>Default: 5</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><strong>post_type</strong> (string) / (array)
<ul>
<li>The post type you would like to display</li>
<li>Example: post</li>
<li>Default: All post types</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><strong>range</strong> (string)
<ul>
<li>In what date range would you like to display popular posts in</li>
<li>Accepted: all_time, monthly, weekly, daily</li>
<li>Default: all_time</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<p>Those are the current parameters that the plugin supports. Let’s look at an example of how to display the most recent popular posts in a unordered list.</p>
<pre><code><?php
echo '<ul>';
$posts = wp_most_popular_get_popular( array( 'limit' => 10, 'post_type' => 'post', 'range' => 'all_time' ) );
global $post;
if ( count( $posts ) > 0 ): foreach ( $posts as $post ):
    setup_postdata( $post );
    ?>
    <li><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" title="<?php echo esc_attr(get_the_title() ? get_the_title() : get_the_ID()); ?>"><?php if ( get_the_title() ) the_title(); else the_ID(); ?></a></li>
    <?php
endforeach; endif;
echo '</ul>';
?>
</code></pre>
<h4>Filters</h4>
<p>The following filters are available to you:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>wp_most_popular_list_before</strong> – used to filter the </li>
</ul>
<ul> element of the outputted widget list<br />
* **wp_most_popular_list_after** – used to filter the </ul>
<p>element of the outputted widget list<br />
* <strong>wp_most_popular_list_item_single</strong> – filters for a the list item generated by the widget</p>
<h4>Actions</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>wp_most_popular_list_item</strong> – used for modifying the list output</li>
</ul>


WP Most Popular

Works just as expected :)
Triggers the stat update from JS on the frontend so it works with cache.

Great plugin

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.

Easy Popular Posts vs WP Most Popular