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.

Presslabs

cristianuibar

<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.

WP Most Popular vs Toplytics