Hector Cabrera

<p>WP Popular Posts is a highly customizable plugin that displays your most popular posts.</p>
<h4>Main Features</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Multiple Popular Posts Lists</strong> – You can have several Popular Posts lists on your blog, each with its own settings!</li>
<li><strong>Time Range</strong> – List those posts of your blog that have been the most popular ones within a specific time range (eg. last 24 hours, last 7 days, last 30 days, etc)!</li>
<li><strong>Custom Post-type support</strong> – Want to show other stuff than just posts and pages, eg. Popular <em>Products</em>? <a href="https://github.com/cabrerahector/wordpress-popular-posts/wiki/5.-FAQ#i-want-to-have-a-popular-list-of-my-custom-post-type-how-can-i-do-that" rel="nofollow ugc">You can</a>!</li>
<li><strong>Thumbnails!</strong> – Display a thumbnail of your posts! (<em>see the <a href="https://github.com/cabrerahector/wordpress-popular-posts/wiki/5.-FAQ#how-does-wordpress-popular-posts-pick-my-posts-thumbnails" rel="nofollow ugc">FAQ section</a> for more details</em>.)</li>
<li><strong>Statistics dashboard</strong> – See how your popular posts are doing directly from your admin area.</li>
<li><strong>Sorting options</strong> – Order your popular list by comments, views (default) or average views per day!</li>
<li><strong>Custom themes</strong> – Out of the box, WP Popular Posts includes some themes so you can style your popular posts list (see <a href="https://github.com/cabrerahector/wordpress-popular-posts/wiki/6.-Styling-the-list#themes" rel="nofollow ugc">Widget Themes</a> for more details).</li>
<li><strong>Use your own layout!</strong> – WPP is flexible enough to let you customize the look and feel of your popular posts! (see <a href="https://github.com/cabrerahector/wordpress-popular-posts/wiki/5.-FAQ#how-can-i-use-my-own-html-markup-with-your-plugin" rel="nofollow ugc">customizing WPP’s HTML markup</a> and <a href="https://github.com/cabrerahector/wordpress-popular-posts/wiki/6.-Styling-the-list" rel="nofollow ugc">How to style WP Popular Posts</a> for more.)</li>
<li><strong>Advanced caching features!</strong> – WP Popular Posts includes a few options to make sure your site’s performance stays as good as ever! (see <a href="https://github.com/cabrerahector/wordpress-popular-posts/wiki/7.-Performance" rel="nofollow ugc">Performance</a> for more details.)</li>
<li><strong>REST API Support</strong> – Embed your popular posts in your (web) app! (see <a href="https://github.com/cabrerahector/wordpress-popular-posts/wiki/8.-REST-API-Endpoints" rel="nofollow ugc">REST API Endpoints</a> for more.)</li>
<li><strong>Elementor support</strong> – Are you building sites with Elementor? There’s a popular posts widget for it too!</li>
<li><strong>Disqus support</strong> – Sort your popular posts by Disqus comments count!</li>
<li><strong>Polylang & WPML 3.2+ support</strong> – Show the translated version of your popular posts!</li>
<li><strong>WordPress Multisite support</strong> – Each site on the network can have its own popular posts list!</li>
</ul>
<h4>Other Features</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Shortcode support</strong> – Use the [wpp] shortcode to showcase your most popular posts on pages, too! For usage and instructions, please refer to the <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-popular-posts/#installation" rel="ugc">Installation section</a>.</li>
<li><strong>Template tags</strong> – Don’t feel like using blocks? No problem! You can still embed your most popular entries on your theme using the <code>wpp_get_mostpopular()</code> template tag. Additionally, the <code>wpp_get_views()</code> template tag allows you to retrieve the views count for a particular post. For usage and instructions, please refer to the <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-popular-posts/#installation" rel="ugc">Installation section</a>.</li>
<li><strong>Localization</strong> – <a href="https://github.com/cabrerahector/wordpress-popular-posts/wiki/5.-FAQ#i-want-to-translate-your-plugin-into-my-language--help-you-update-a-translation-what-do-i-need-to-do" rel="nofollow ugc">Translate WPP into your own language</a>.</li>
<li><strong><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-postratings/" rel="ugc">WP-PostRatings</a> support</strong> – Show your visitors how your readers are rating your posts!</li>
</ul>
<h4>PSA: The classic WP Popular Posts widget has reached End-of-Life</h4>
<p>The classic WP Popular Posts widget doesn’t work very well / at all with the <a href="https://wordpress.org/documentation/article/block-based-widgets-editor/" rel="ugc">block-based Widgets editor</a> introduced with WordPress 5.8.</p>
<p>This new Widgets editor expects <a href="https://wordpress.org/documentation/article/blocks-list/" rel="ugc">WordPress blocks</a> instead of regular WordPress widgets. If you’re using the classic WP Popular Posts widget please replace it with the <a href="https://cabrerahector.com/wordpress/wordpress-popular-posts-5-3-improved-php-8-support-retina-display-support-and-more/#block-editor-support" rel="nofollow ugc">WP Popular Posts block</a> instead – it has the same features and functionality as the “classic” widget so you won’t be missing anything at all. See the <a href="https://cabrerahector.com/wordpress/migrating-from-the-classic-popular-posts-widget/" rel="nofollow ugc">Migration Guide</a> for more details.</p>
<p>Bjorn from wplearninglab.com was kind enough to create a video explaining how to use the new block for all of you visual learners:</p>
<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/mtzk6yNEaFs?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>
<p>If you cannot (or do not want to) use WordPress blocks on your website then please replace your classic widget with the <a href="https://github.com/cabrerahector/wordpress-popular-posts/wiki/1.-Using-WPP-on-posts-&-pages#the-wpp-shortcode" rel="nofollow ugc">[wpp] shortcode</a>.</p>
<h4>Support the Project!</h4>
<p>If you’d like to support my work and efforts to creating and maintaining more open source projects your donations and messages of support mean a lot!</p>
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<p><strong>WP Popular Posts</strong> is now also on <a href="https://github.com/cabrerahector/wordpress-popular-posts" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub</a>!</p>
<p>Looking for a <strong>Recent Posts</strong> widget just as featured-packed as WP Popular Posts? <strong>Try <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/recently/" rel="ugc">Recently</a></strong>!</p>
<h3>Credits</h3>
<ul>
<li>Flame graphic by freevector/Vecteezy.com.</li>
</ul>


WP Popular Posts

Great Plugin!

This plugin delivers as it says. It's both easy to use, and easy to extend on the backend if that suits you as well.

Works Perfectly


Great plugin that does what I need and have a great support from Hector even it's a free plugin.



Keep it up and make a PRO version :)


Great plugin, great support

A highly customizable, easy-to-use popular posts plugin!

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<p>“WP-Ranking PRO” is a widget plugin with advanced features to display the ranking of popular articles in each elements and period on your blog.</p>
<h4>Main Features</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Time Range</strong> – It displays the ranking within the specified period of time.(eg. 24 h, 1 week, 1 month, 1 year, all, etc.)</li>
<li><strong>Mobile-friendly</strong> – Make an aggregate individually in the PC and mobile(smartphone, tablet, etc.). Mobile accesses is distinguished by the user agent and a rank is made.</li>
<li><strong>Ranking Cache</strong> – The ranking data has the ability to cache a certain period of time.</li>
<li><strong>Shortcode support.</strong> – You can make your own page on ranking.</li>
<li><strong>PHP code support.</strong> – By the specify the ranking information to be displayed in the PHP code, you can make any rankings page.</li>
<li><strong>Multi-widget</strong> support.</li>
<li><strong>Custom-widgets capable</strong> – Them rankings can freely customize title, characters, various articles, various categories, various tags, period, equipment or HTML tags, and more.</li>
<li><strong>Display a thumbnail of your posts.</strong> It is possible to select a thumbnail to display.</li>
<li><strong>Exclusion from the aggregation target.</strong> – You can exclude access from a particular environment from the aggregation target.(eg. the origin of access, HTTP referers, user agents, logged-in users.)</li>
<li><strong>Custom Post-type</strong> support!</li>
</ul>
<h4>Other Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Summary of rankings can be <strong>displayed on the dashboard</strong> (wp-admin).</li>
<li><strong>Automatic clearance of log.</strong> – Data is accumulated by a data base, but I have the function from which the log which accumulated can be eliminated automatically.</li>
<li>Rebuild cache</li>
<li>Clear cache</li>
</ul>
<h4>There is following function.</h4>
<ul>
<li>Periods: 24 h, 1 week, 1 month, 1 year, all, and more</li>
<li>Exclusions: the origin of access, HTTP referers, user agents, logged-in users</li>
</ul>
<h3>Language support</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>Japanese</strong></li>
<li><strong>English</strong></li>
</ul>


WP-Ranking PRO

"WP-Ranking PRO" totals a page view, and into which a popular article can be formed by various elements or periods.

WP Popular Posts vs WP-Ranking PRO