Sadhan Pal

<p><strong>Simple Post View Counter</strong> is a lightweight yet powerful plugin to track how many times your WordPress posts are viewed.</p>
<h3>Key Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>✅ Automatic post view tracking (AJAX-based, works even in incognito mode)</li>
<li>✅ Prevents double-counting on refresh</li>
<li>✅ Built-in bot detection</li>
<li>✅ Display views before content, after content, beside meta, or manually</li>
<li>✅ “Most Viewed Posts” widget with customizable display</li>
<li>✅ Shortcodes for displaying most viewed posts and individual post views</li>
<li>✅ Admin settings page with statistics (total views, average views, top posts, etc.)</li>
<li>✅ Views column in admin post list (sortable by views)</li>
<li>✅ Exclude admin views from tracking</li>
<li>✅ Works with caching plugins</li>
</ul>
<h3>Shortcodes</h3>
<ul>
<li><code>[post_views]</code> <span aria-hidden="true" class="wp-exclude-emoji">→</span> Display view count for current post<br />
Options: <code>post_id</code>, <code>format="%s views"</code></li>
<li><code>[most_viewed_posts]</code> <span aria-hidden="true" class="wp-exclude-emoji">→</span> Display a list of most viewed posts<br />
Options: <code>limit="5"</code>, <code>show_count="yes"</code>, <code>show_excerpt="no"</code></li>
</ul>
<h3>Example Usage</h3>
<ul>
<li><code>[most_viewed_posts]</code> <span aria-hidden="true" class="wp-exclude-emoji">→</span> Show top 5 posts</li>
<li><code>[most_viewed_posts limit="10" show_count="yes"]</code> <span aria-hidden="true" class="wp-exclude-emoji">→</span> Show 10 posts with view counts</li>
<li><code>[post_views]</code> <span aria-hidden="true" class="wp-exclude-emoji">→</span> Show current post’s view count</li>
</ul>
<h3>Widgets</h3>
<p>Go to <strong>Appearance <span aria-hidden="true" class="wp-exclude-emoji">→</span> Widgets</strong> and add the <strong>Most Viewed Posts</strong> widget to your sidebar.</p>
<h3>Video Tutorial</h3>
<span class="embed-youtube" style="text-align:center; display: block;"><iframe loading="lazy" class="youtube-player" width="750" height="422" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/10d_wyQn-Lk?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent" allowfullscreen="true" style="border:0;" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox"></iframe></span>
<h3>Theme Function</h3>
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<h3>Credits</h3>
<p>Developed by Sadhan Pal</p>
<h3>License</h3>
<p>This plugin is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.</p>


Simple Post View Counter – Clean and Fast Post View Analytics

Lightweight post view counter with a widget and shortcodes. Track post views automatically, stop double-counting, and display popular content easily.

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<p>Displays the most visited posts as a widget using data from Google Analytics. Designed to be used under high-traffic or low server resources.</p>
<h3>About the makers</h3>
<p>This plugin was developed by the crafty people at Presslabs—the Smart Managed WordPress Hosting Platform. Here we bring high-performance hosting and business intelligence for WordPress sites. In our spare time, we contribute to the global open-source community with our plugins.</p>
<p>We built this plugin in 2013 to provide a less resource consuming alternative to help our clients that wanted to display a list with the most popular articles on their websites.</p>
<h3>What is Toplytics?</h3>
<p>This plugin displays the most visited posts as a widget, using data extracted from Google Analytics. Toplytics is designed to work with high-traffic sites and all types of caching.<br />
For more details check the <a href="https://www.presslabs.com/code/toplytics/" rel="nofollow ugc">official Toplytics documentation</a>.</p>
<h3>Why Toplytics?</h3>
<p>You can use this plugin if you want to display the most visited posts of your site in a safe and reliable manner, with no risk of downtime or slowness. The plugin is built for high-traffic sites where counting every visitor’s click loads up the DB and presents the potential of crashing the site. Of course, you need an active Google Analytics setup on your site to use this plugin.</p>
<h3>Toplytics features:</h3>
<ul>
<li>shortcodes are now supported for easier integration into posts/pages or other widgets. [toplytics period=”week” numberposts=”3″ showviews=”true”] Check FAQ for details;</li>
<li>connect with Google Analytics Account using OAuth 2.0 method;</li>
<li>starting with the plugin version 3.0 we have switched to GA API v3. Toplytics</li>
<li>provides a widget displaying the most visited posts as simple links (no styling);</li>
<li>use the widget to display the most visited posts from the past day, week or month;</li>
<li>set the number of posts to be displayed between 1 and 250;</li>
<li>display the number of views as counted by Google Analytics;</li>
<li>support/translate i18n requests;</li>
<li>generate the list of the most visited posts dynamically with JavaScript to correctly display them with any caching mechanism/plugin;</li>
<li>use the custom template to display the widget.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Receiving is nicer when giving</h3>
<p>We’ve built Toplytics to make our lives easier and we’re happy to do that for other developers and site owners, too. We’d really appreciate it if you could contribute with code, tests, documentation or just share your experience with Toplytics.</p>
<p>Development of Toplytics happens at <a href="http://github.com/PressLabs/toplytics" rel="nofollow ugc">github.com/PressLabs/toplytics</a>.<br />
Issues are tracked at <a href="http://github.com/PressLabs/toplytics/issues" rel="nofollow ugc">github.com/PressLabs/toplytics/issues</a>.<br />
This WordPress plugin can be found at <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/toplytics/" rel="ugc">wordpress.org/plugins/toplytics/</a>.</p>


Toplytics

This plugin is great!
I personal customize use it to display thumbnail images.
I hope it will be maintained for a long time.

Works as expected!

Displays the most visited posts as a widget using data from Google Analytics. Designed to be used under high-traffic or low server resources.

Simple Post View Counter – Clean and Fast Post View Analytics vs Toplytics