Hugh Lashbrooke

“Post Hit Counter” does what it says on the tin – it counts how many hits your posts receive. Hit counts are displayed in a new column in the post list table, in the submit box on the post edit screen and in the admin bar on the frontend.
Plugin Features
<ul>
<li>Easily visible hit counts in the dashboard and in the admin bar on the frontend</li>
<li>Shortcode to display view count for current or specified post</li>
<li>Widget to display your most viewed posts anywhere on your site</li>
<li>Dashboard widget to show your most viewed posts at a glance</li>
<li>No complicated analytics and statistics to wade through</li>
<li>Option to select which post types must be counted</li>
<li>Option to select which user roles should not trigger the hit counter</li>
</ul>
This is not meant as a replacement for more advanced analytics plugins – it is a counter so you can see which of your posts are more popular without diving too deeply into complicated viewing statistics.
Want to contribute? <a href="https://github.com/hlashbrooke/Post-Hit-Counter" rel="nofollow ugc">Fork the GitHub repository</a>.
This plugin was initially created as a demo for <a href="http://2014.capetown.wordcamp.org/session/building-your-first-wordpress-plugin/" rel="nofollow ugc">a workshop</a> I ran at WordCamp Cape Town 2014. I have since fleshed it out and enhanced it to be more useful.

Post Hit Counter

Not complicated; just does what it says. Nice. Thanks.

Simply Works

A counter to track how many times your posts are viewed.

David Angulo

Easily count unique views of your posts.
Just install the plugin and the counting begins. No coding skills needed.
<h4>How does it work?</h4>
<ul>
<li>All views of the post will start at zero (0) upon the plugin installation.</li>
<li>When a visitor viewed your post, it will save a cookie on the visitor so that same visitor will only count as one (1) view, this way we can uniquely identify each visitor.</li>
<li>The cookie expires after a month, so if the same person viewed your post after the cookie expires it will count as another view.</li>
<li>Visitors who use “incognito” or something similar will be counted always as a unique visitor because “incognito” mode does not save cookies.</li>
<li>One (1) visitor = One (1) cookie.</li>
</ul>
Please rate and review the plugin if you find it useful.
Find my other works here: <a href="https://www.davidangulo.xyz/portfolio/" rel="nofollow ugc">https://www.davidangulo.xyz/portfolio/</a>

Post Hit Counter vs Posts Unique View Counter