Best bars plugins for WordPress
The most popular bars plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Most Popular Posts Widget leads with 10+ active installs, ahead of Kenzap Stats (10+) and Very Simple WP Statistics Bars (fewer than 10). All 3 plugins tagged “bars” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 3 bars plugins
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Most Popular Posts WidgetThe most installed bars plugin, with 10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 11 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.3.34.
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Kenzap Stats10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 5 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.5.24.
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Very Simple WP Statistics BarsFewer than 10 active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 5 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.6.23.
All 3 plugins tagged “bars”

Most Popular Posts Widget
Up in the last 7 days:363#28,977by Piotr Pesta11 years ago
Most Popular Posts is a widget that is able to display a list of the most popular posts of your site (ranked by number of visits or number of comments …
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Kenzap Stats
Up in the last 7 days:56#29,772by WP Asia6 years ago
Extend your website with counters, countdowns, bars and other statistical elements. It should work out of the box though depending on the theme used y …
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Very Simple WP Statistics Bars
Up in the last 7 days:12,234#51,269by jschaves5 years ago
Very Simple WP Statistics
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day