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Light Views Counter is a professional, high-performance WordPress plugin that tracks post views using intelligent scroll detection.
It is specifically designed for high-traffic websites and large databases, where other plugins often slow down or fail to perform efficiently. It delivers reliable view tracking without adding query overhead or slowing down your site’s performance.
Designed for news sites, magazines, bloggers, and content creators, this plugin helps you filter popular posts and show views that truly resonate with your audience.
<h4>🌟 Why Choose Light Views Counter?</h4>
Looking for a lightweight, reliable, and high-performance post views counter for WordPress? Light Views Counter is designed with precision and efficiency in mind, built to track genuine user engagement without slowing down your site.
Tracking
<ul>
<li>Scroll Detection Technology: Only counts views when visitors actually read your content (configurable scroll threshold)</li>
<li>Bot Protection: Automatically filters out search engine crawlers and automated traffic</li>
<li>Duplicate Prevention: Prevent counting the same user multiple times within a configurable time window</li>
<li>Short Content Smart Detection: Intelligently handles posts that fit in viewport without requiring scroll</li>
</ul>
Lightning Fast Performance
<ul>
<li>Zero Impact on Page Speed: Asynchronous REST API ensures counting happens in the background</li>
<li>Built-in Caching: caching system reduces database load</li>
<li>sendBeacon API: Fire-and-forget counting for maximum performance (enabled by default)</li>
</ul>
Easy to Use
<ul>
<li>Automatic Tracking: Works immediately after activation, no configuration required</li>
<li>Flexible Shortcode: Display views anywhere with <code>[lightvc_post_views]</code> shortcode</li>
<li>Popular Posts Widgets: Ready-to-use WordPress and Elementor widgets</li>
<li>Auto-Display Option: Automatically show view counts at the end of posts</li>
</ul>
Developer Friendly
<ul>
<li>Clean Public API: Simple functions: <code>lightvc_get_post_views()</code>, <code>lightvc_get_popular_posts()</code></li>
<li>WP_Query Integration: Sort posts by views: <code>'orderby' => 'lightvc_views'</code></li>
<li>Hooks & Filters: Customize everything: <code>lightvc_post_views_count</code>, <code>lightvc_views_html</code>, <code>lightvc_exclude_user</code></li>
<li>REST API Endpoints: HTTP access for external integrations</li>
</ul>
Enterprise Ready
<ul>
<li>High Traffic Optimized: Tested on sites with millions of views per day</li>
<li>Cache Plugin Compatible: Works perfectly with WP Rocket, W3 Total Cache, LiteSpeed Cache, Cloudflare</li>
<li>GDPR Compliant: No personal data collection, no cookies, privacy-focused</li>
</ul>
<h4>Perfect For</h4>
<ul>
<li>Bloggers: See which posts your readers love most</li>
<li>News Websites: Track trending stories and breaking news engagement</li>
<li>Magazine Sites: Identify top-performing content and popular topics</li>
<li>Content Marketers: Measure content performance and reader engagement</li>
<li>E-commerce: Track product page views and customer interest</li>
<li>Publishers: Understand content performance across categories</li>
</ul>
<h4>🗝️ Key features:</h4>
Every feature is carefully engineered to ensure accuracy, speed, and seamless integration with your WordPress site. From smart counting logic and flexible widgets to detailed analytics and developer-friendly APIs.
Smart Counting System
<ul>
<li>Scroll-based view detection</li>
<li>Automatic short content detection and handling</li>
<li>Configurable time window to prevent duplicate counts</li>
<li>Admin user exclusion (don’t count your own views)</li>
<li>Bot and crawler filtering</li>
</ul>
Widgets & Integration
<ul>
<li>Standard WordPress widget for popular posts</li>
<li>Display options: thumbnails, view counts, dates</li>
<li>Fully customizable layouts</li>
<li>Works in any widget area</li>
</ul>
Analytics & Reporting
<ul>
<li>Admin dashboard with statistics</li>
<li>Total views across all posts</li>
<li>Most viewed posts list</li>
<li>Average views per post</li>
<li>Views column in posts list (sortable)</li>
</ul>
Performance Features
<ul>
<li>Custom database table with optimized indexes</li>
<li>WP cache support</li>
<li>sendBeacon API for fire-and-forget requests</li>
<li>Conditional script loading</li>
<li>No external dependencies</li>
</ul>
<h4>Translations & Compatibility</h4>
<ul>
<li>Translation ready with .pot file included</li>
<li>Works with any WordPress theme</li>
<li>Deep integration with Foxiz News theme</li>
<li>Cache Plugins: WP Rocket, W3 Total Cache, WP Super Cache, LiteSpeed Cache, Autoptimize</li>
<li>CDN Services: Cloudflare, StackPath, KeyCDN, BunnyCDN</li>
</ul>
<h4>🔒 Privacy & Security</h4>
<ul>
<li>No personal data collection</li>
<li>No cookies used</li>
<li>No cross-site tracking</li>
<li>localStorage is client-side only</li>
<li>Complete transparency</li>
<li>Rate limiting to prevent abuse</li>
<li>Admin capability checks</li>
</ul>
<h4>Configuration (Optional)</h4>
After activation, you can customize settings:
Navigate to Settings > Light Views Counter 
With Foxiz Theme: Navigate to Foxiz Admin > Light Views Counter
The plugin features a modern admin interface with toast notifications, and organized sections.
Available Settings:
Easily customize how Light Views Counter works on your site. Every option is designed to give you full control while keeping things fast, and easy to manage.
Tracking Settings:
<ul>
<li>Scroll Threshold (default: 50%) – How far users must scroll before counting a view</li>
<li>Time Window (default: 1800 seconds / 30 minutes) – Prevents duplicate counts from same user</li>
<li>Supported Post Types (default: Posts) – Select which post types to track (Posts, Pages, Custom Types)</li>
<li>Fast Mode (default: Enabled) – Uses sendBeacon API for maximum performance</li>
</ul>
Performance Settings:
<ul>
<li>Enable Caching (default: Enabled) – Cache view counts for better performance</li>
<li>Cache Duration (default: 300 seconds / 5 minutes) – How long to cache data</li>
<li>Query Method (default: Subquery) – Choose Subquery (<100k posts) or JOIN (100k+ posts) for orderby queries</li>
</ul>
Display Settings:
<ul>
<li>Show Views on Content (default: Disabled) – Auto-display view count at end of posts</li>
</ul>
API Settings:
<ul>
<li>Enable GET Endpoint (default: Disabled) – Allow public REST API access to view counts</li>
</ul>
<h4>Getting Started</h4>

<ol>
<li>Verify Tracking – Visit any post on your site, scroll down, then check the admin dashboard statistics</li>
<li>Add Widgets – Go to Appearance > Widgets and add “Popular Posts (Light Views Counter)”</li>
<li>View Statistics – Check the Views column in your Posts list (admin area)</li>
</ol>
That’s it! Your site is now tracking post views intelligently.
<h4>💻 For Developers</h4>
Light Views Counter provides a complete developer toolkit:
PHP Functions:
<ul>
<li><code>lightvc_get_post_views( $post_id )</code></li>
<li><code>lightvc_get_popular_posts( $args )</code></li>
</ul>
WP_Query Integration:
<ul>
<li><code>'orderby' => 'lightvc_views'</code></li>
</ul>
Hooks & Filters:
<ul>
<li><code>lightvc_post_views_count</code></li>
<li><code>lightvc_views_html</code></li>
<li><code>lightvc_exclude_user</code></li>
<li><code>lightvc_views_counted</code></li>
</ul>
REST API:
<ul>
<li><code>GET /wp-json/lightvc/v1/views/{id}</code></li>
<li><code>POST /wp-json/lightvc/v1/count</code></li>
</ul>
<h4>🔗 Useful Links</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://themeruby.com/lvc-documentation/" rel="nofollow ugc">Documentation</a></li>
<li><a href="https://themeruby.com" rel="nofollow ugc">ThemeRuby Website</a></li>
</ul>

Light Views Counter – Fast, Scalable View Counter for High-Traffic Sites

Lightweight and fast post view counter with smart tracking, built for high-traffic sites and large post databases.

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Anoop Ranawat

Pratik Jain

Ketan Patel

Essential Plugin

Piyush Patel

Riddhi Shukla

✅ Now that you have your website ready why don’t you download and try out this Trending/Popular Post slider to give it better functionality.
Download Now and WP Trending Post Slider and Widget allow you to display the most popular posts/trending posts on your blog by posts views or posts comments. Display your popular post in a page by shortcode or in a sidebar by widget with desired time range.
Download Now this Trending/Popular Post slider because It is proven that Trending Post sliders have been a powerful tool to present your content in a very neat manner with the help of fancy sliders and customized designs.
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Your customer might like the professional and fancy vibe of your site with Trending Post sliders
✅ This plugin displays your trending posts using :
<ul>
<li>Trending Slider (1 design)</li>
<li>Trending Carousel (1 design)</li>
<li>Trending Gridbox (1 design)</li>
<li>Trending widget (1 design)</li>
</ul>
Download Now it today and explore all the features.
When you want to makeover your WordPress website theme with something extraordinary and creative, you must consider the Trending post slider.
Help your website get a slide-wise display to show the custom posts. Not just eye appealing, it is also loved by visitors as they find it quite easy to locate custom posts.
Note: After inserting shortcode or widget to site, if you are not seeing any post list then kindly visit blog/post section on frontend. It will store the post count on the database**
WP Trending Post Slider and Widget will list post based on your post views or Comment Count. Once you visit post page then plugin will automatic take that post into list.
Also added Gutenberg block support.
<h4>✅ Here is the plugin shortcode example</h4>
Trending Slider
<pre><code>[wtpsw_popular_post]
</code></pre>
Trending Carousel
<pre><code>[wtpsw_carousel]
</code></pre>
Trending gridbox
<pre><code>[wtpsw_gridbox]
</code></pre>
To display only Trending 4 post:
<pre><code>[wtpsw_popular_post limit="4"]
</code></pre>
Where limit define the number of posts to display. You can use same parameter with all shortcode.
<h4>✅ Here is Template code</h4>
<pre><code><?php echo do_shortcode('[wtpsw_popular_post]'); ?> 
<?php echo do_shortcode('[wtpsw_carousel]'); ?> 
<?php echo do_shortcode('[wtpsw_gridbox]'); ?> 
</code></pre>
<h4>✅ Use Following Trending Slider parameters with shortcode</h4>
<pre><code>[wtpsw_popular_post]
</code></pre>
<ul>
<li>Limit : [wtpsw_popular_post limit=”10″] (Display no of post in a slider)</li>
<li>Post Type : [wtpsw_popular_post post_type=”post,page”] ( Display post list of your desired post type. )</li>
<li>Post List By : [wtpsw_popular_post view_by=”views”] (Display Post list by Views or Comment count. You can use “views” OR “comment”)</li>
<li>Order : [wtpsw_popular_post order=”DESC”] (Display post in a ascending or descending way. You can use “ASC” OR “DESC”)</li>
<li>Post Date : [wtpsw_popular_post showdate=”true”] (Display post date. You can use “true” OR “false”)</li>
<li>Author : [wtpsw_popular_post showauthor=”true”] (Display post author. You can use “true” OR “false”)</li>
<li>Post Content : [wtpsw_popular_post showcontent=”true”] (Display post content. You can use “true” OR “false”)</li>
<li>Post content words limit : [wtpsw_popular_post words_limit=”title”] (Display number of words in a post content.)</li>
<li>Show Comment Count : [wtpsw_popular_post show_comment_count=”true”] (Display comment count. You can use “true” OR “false”)</li>
<li>Hide empty comment count : [wtpsw_popular_post hide_empty_comment_count=”true”] (Display comment that having 0 count. You can use “true” OR “false”)</li>
<li>Slider Dots : [wtpsw_popular_post dots=”true”] (Display slider dots. You can use “true” OR “false”)</li>
<li>Slider Arrows : [wtpsw_popular_post arrows=”true”] (Display slider arrows. You can use “true” OR “false”)</li>
<li>Slider Speed : [wtpsw_popular_post speed=”300″] (Controls slider speed.)</li>
<li>Autoplay : [wtpsw_popular_post autoplay=”false”]</li>
<li>Autoplay Interval : [wtpsw_popular_post autoplayinterval=”3000″]</li>
<li>extra_class : [wtpsw_popular_post extra_class=””] (Enter extra CSS class for design customization ).</li>
</ul>
<h4>✅ Use Following Trending Carousel parameters with shortcode</h4>
<pre><code>[wtpsw_carousel]
</code></pre>
<ul>
<li>Limit : [wtpsw_carousel limit=”10″] (Display no of post in a slider)</li>
<li>Post Type : [wtpsw_carousel post_type=”post,page”] ( Display post list of your desired post type. )</li>
<li>Post List By : [wtpsw_carousel view_by=”views”] (Display Post list by Views or Comment count. You can use “views” OR “comment”)</li>
<li>Order : [wtpsw_carousel order=”DESC”] (Display post in a ascending or descending way. You can use “ASC” OR “DESC”)</li>
<li>Post Date : [wtpsw_carousel showdate=”true”] (Display post date. You can use “true” OR “false”)</li>
<li>Author : [wtpsw_carousel showauthor=”true”] (Display post author. You can use “true” OR “false”)</li>
<li>Post Content : [wtpsw_carousel showcontent=”true”] (Display post content. You can use “true” OR “false”)</li>
<li>Post content words limit : [wtpsw_carousel words_limit=”title”] (Display number of words in a post content.)</li>
<li>show_comment_count : [wtpsw_carousel show_comment_count=”true”] (Display comment count. You can use “true” OR “false”)</li>
<li>Hide empty comment count : [wtpsw_carousel hide_empty_comment_count=”true”] (Display comment that having 0 count. You can use “true” OR “false”)</li>
<li>** slides to show at a time** : [wtpsw_carousel slides_to_show=”3″] (You can use 1,2,3,4,5 etc)</li>
<li>Slides to scroll at a time : [wtpsw_carousel slides_to_scroll=”1″] (You can use 1,2,3,4,5 etc)</li>
<li>Slider Dots : [wtpsw_carousel dots=”true”] (Display slider dots. You can use “true” OR “false”)</li>
<li>Slider Arrows : [wtpsw_carousel arrows=”true”] (Display slider arrows. You can use “true” OR “false”)</li>
<li>Slider Speed : [wtpsw_carousel speed=”300″] (Controls slider speed.)</li>
<li>Autoplay : [wtpsw_carousel autoplay=”false”]</li>
<li>Autoplay Interval : [wtpsw_carousel autoplayinterval=”3000″]</li>
<li>extra_class : [wtpsw_carousel extra_class=””] (Enter extra CSS class for design customization ).</li>
</ul>
<h4>✅ Use Following Trending Gridbox parameters with shortcode</h4>
<pre><code>[wtpsw_gridbox]
</code></pre>
<ul>
<li>Limit : [wtpsw_gridbox limit=”5″] (Display no of post in a grid)</li>
<li>Post Type : [wtpsw_gridbox post_type=”post,page”] ( Display post list of your desired post type. )</li>
<li>Post List By : [wtpsw_gridbox view_by=”views”] (Display Post list by Views or Comment count. You can use “views” OR “comment”)</li>
<li>Order : [wtpsw_gridbox order=”DESC”] (Display post in a ascending or descending way. You can use “ASC” OR “DESC”)</li>
<li>Post Date : [wtpsw_gridbox showdate=”true”] (Display post date. You can use “true” OR “false”)</li>
<li>Author : [wtpsw_gridbox showauthor=”true”] (Display post author. You can use “true” OR “false”)</li>
<li>Post Content Limit : [wtpsw_gridbox words_limit=”title”] (Display number of words in a post content.)</li>
<li>show_comment_count : [wtpsw_gridbox show_comment_count=”true”] (Display comment count. You can use “true” OR “false”)</li>
<li>Hide empty comment count : [wtpsw_gridbox hide_empty_comment_count=”true”] (Display comment that having 0 count. You can use “true” OR “false”)</li>
<li>extra_class : [wtpsw_gridbox extra_class=””] (Enter extra CSS class for design customization ).</li>
</ul>
✅ Checkout demo for better understanding
<a href="https://demo.essentialplugin.com/trending-post-demo/?utm_source=WP&utm_medium=Trending-Popular&utm_campaign=Read-Me" rel="nofollow ugc">FREE DEMO</a> | <a href="https://demo.essentialplugin.com/prodemo/pro-featured-and-trending-post/?utm_source=WP&utm_medium=Trending-Popular&utm_campaign=Read-Me" rel="nofollow ugc">PRO DEMO</a>
✅ Essential Plugin Bundle Deal
<a href="https://www.essentialplugin.com/pricing/?utm_source=WP&utm_medium=Trending-Popular&utm_campaign=Read-Me" rel="nofollow ugc">Annual or Lifetime Bundle Deal</a>
<h4>Why Use WP Trending Post Slider and Widget Plugin?</h4>
<ul>
<li>Also work with Gutenberg shortcode block.</li>
<li>WP Trending Post Slider and Widget Plugin is made with WordPress standard.</li>
<li>This plugin helps you to display popular post, trending post, what’s hot on your site in a easy way.</li>
<li>WP Trending Post Slider and Widget Plugin, when used effectively, is a great tool to attract your blogs visitors!</li>
</ul>
<h4>✅ Features include:</h4>
<ul>
<li>Added Gutenberg block support.</li>
<li>Trending post slider</li>
<li>Trending post carousel</li>
<li>Trending post gridbox</li>
<li>Trending post Widget</li>
<li>Easy to add.</li>
<li>Also work with Gutenberg shortcode block. </li>
<li>Elementor, Beaver and SiteOrigin Page Builder Native Support (New).</li>
<li>Divi Page Builder Native Support (New).</li>
<li>Fusion Page Builder (Avada) Native Support (New).</li>
<li>Responsive.</li>
<li>You can create multiple testimonial slider with different options at single page or post.</li>
<li>Fully responsive. Scales with its container.</li>
<li>100% Multi Language.</li>
</ul>

Trending/Popular Post Slider and Widget

A quick, easy way to add Popular/Trending posts slider, grid block and widget. Also work with Gutenberg shortcode block.

Light Views Counter – Fast, Scalable View Counter for High-Traffic Sites vs Trending/Popular Post Slider and Widget