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WP Popular Posts

WP Popular Posts is a highly customizable plugin that displays your most popular posts. PSA: Plugin has been renamed as WP Popular Posts! See the announcement for more details. Main Features Multiple Popular Posts Lists – You can have several Popular Posts lists on your blog, each with its own setti

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PricingFree downloadThe WordPress.org download is free. Pro versions, add-ons or external services may cost extra.

CompatibilityRequires WordPress 6.2 and PHP 7.4.

SourceWordPress plugins · Nov 14, 2026

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WP Popular Posts is a highly customizable plugin that displays your most popular posts.

PSA: Plugin has been renamed as WP Popular Posts!

See the announcement for more details.

Main Features

Multiple Popular Posts Lists – You can have several Popular Posts lists on your blog, each with its own settings!
Time Range – 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)!
Custom Post-type support – Want to show other stuff than just posts and pages, eg. Popular Products ? You can !
Thumbnails! – Display a thumbnail of your posts! ( see the FAQ section for more details .)
Statistics dashboard – See how your popular posts are doing directly from your admin area.
Sorting options – Order your popular list by comments, views (default) or average views per day!
Custom themes – Out of the box, WP Popular Posts includes some themes so you can style your popular posts list (see Widget Themes for more details).
Use your own layout! – WPP is flexible enough to let you customize the look and feel of your popular posts! (see customizing WPP’s HTML markup and How to style WP Popular Posts for more.)
Performance Tools! – WP Popular Posts includes a few options to make sure your site’s performance stays as good as ever! (see Performance for more details.)
REST API support – Embed your popular posts in your (web) app! (see REST API Endpoints for more.)
Elementor support – Are you building sites with Elementor? There’s a popular posts widget for it too!
Disqus support – Sort your popular posts by Disqus comments count!
Polylang & WPML 3.2+ support – Show the translated version of your popular posts!
WordPress Multisite support – Each site on the network can have its own popular posts list!

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Please make sure your site meets the minimum requirements before proceeding.

Automatic installation

Log in into your WordPress dashboard.
Go to Plugins > Add New.
In the “Search Plugins” field, type in WP Popular Posts and hit Enter.
Find the plugin in the search results list and click on the “Install Now” button.

Manual installation

Download the plugin and extract its contents.
Upload the wordpress-popular-posts folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
Activate the WP Popular Posts plugin through the “Plugins” menu in WordPress.

Done! What’s next?

Please see the Usage section below to learn how to add a popular post list to your site. Once you’re done, keep reading.
If you have a caching plugin installed on your site, flush its cache now so WPP can start tracking your site.
If you have a plugin that minifies JavaScript (JS) installed on your site please read this FAQ: Is WP Popular Posts compatible with plugins that minify/bundle JavaScript code?
If you have a security / firewall plugin installed on your site, make sure you allow WPP access to the REST API so it can start tracking your site.
Go to Appearance > Editor > Theme File Editor. Under “Theme Files”, click on “Theme Header” ( header.php ) and make sure that the <?php wp_head(); ?> tag is present (it should be somewhere before the closing </head> tag).
(Optional but highly recommended) Are you running a medium/high traffic site? If so, it might be a good idea to check these suggestions to make sure your site’s performance stays up to par.

That’s it!

USAGE

WP Popular Posts can be used in four different ways:

If you’re using the Block Editor you can insert a WP Popular Posts block on your sidebar and even anywhere within your posts and pages.
As a template tag: you can place it anywhere on your theme with wpp_get_mostpopular() .
Via shortcode , so you can embed it inside a post or a page.
If you’re using Elementor on your site you can use the WP Popular Posts widget for Elementor .

Make sure to stop by the Wiki as well, you’ll find even more info there!