Simple Post View Counter – Clean and Fast Post View Analytics

Simple Post View Counter is a lightweight yet powerful plugin to track how many times your WordPress posts are viewed.

Key Features

• ✅ Automatic post view tracking (AJAX-based, works even in incognito mode)
• ✅ Prevents double-counting on refresh
• ✅ Built-in bot detection
• ✅ Display views before content, after content, beside meta, or manually
• ✅ “Most Viewed Posts” widget with customizable display
• ✅ Shortcodes for displaying most viewed posts and individual post views
• ✅ Admin settings page with statistics (total views, average views, top posts, etc.)
• ✅ Views column in admin post list (sortable by views)
• ✅ Exclude admin views from tracking
• ✅ Works with caching plugins

Shortcodes

• [post_views] → Display view count for current post
  Options: post_id, format="%s views"
• [most_viewed_posts] → Display a list of most viewed posts
  Options: limit="5", show_count="yes", show_excerpt="no"

Example Usage

• [most_viewed_posts] → Show top 5 posts
• [most_viewed_posts limit="10" show_count="yes"] → Show 10 posts with view counts
• [post_views] → Show current post’s view count

Widgets

Go to Appearance → Widgets and add the Most Viewed Posts widget to your sidebar.

Video Tutorial

Theme Function

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Credits

Developed by Sadhan Pal

License

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.

Upload the plugin files to the /wp-content/plugins/simple-post-view-counter/ directory, or install the plugin via the WordPress plugins screen directly.

Activate the plugin through the Plugins screen in WordPress.

Go to Settings → Post Views to configure options.

Add the Most Viewed Posts widget, use shortcodes, or call the function in your theme.

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1.0.0

Initial release

Automatic view tracking

Shortcodes [post_views] and [most_viewed_posts]

Widget for most viewed posts

Admin settings page with statistics

Prevents double counting on refresh

Works in incognito/private mode

Basic bot detection