Best count plugins for WordPress
The most popular count plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Simple Download Monitor leads with 20K+ active installs, ahead of Post View Count (4K+) and Posts Character Count Admin (1K+). All 90 plugins tagged “count” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 count plugins
- 1.
Simple Download MonitorThe most installed count plugin, with 20K+ active installs. Rated 4.7 from 158 reviews, updated 1 week ago.
- 2.
Post View Count4K+ active installs. Rated 4.6 from 18 reviews, updated 1 month ago.
- 3.Posts Character Count Admin
1K+ active installs. Only 3 reviews so far, last updated 12 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.9.40.
- 4.
GravityWP1K+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 13 reviews, last updated 1 year ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.8.12.
- 5.AJAX Hits Counter + Popular Posts Widget
900+ active installs. Rated 4.9 from 17 reviews, last updated 5 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.7.21.
- 6.Countdown Timer
900+ active installs. Rated 4.7 from 10 reviews, last updated 7 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.1.28.
- 7.
Simple Post Views Count500+ active installs. Only 4 reviews so far, last updated 4 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.3.27.
- 8.
Dashboard Wordcount500+ active installs. Only 4 reviews so far, last updated 10 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.6.30.
- 9.bbP topic count
300+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 15 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
- 10.
Posts Social Shares Count300+ active installs. Rated 3.7 from 6 reviews, last updated 10 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.3.34.
All 90 plugins tagged “count”

Simple Download Monitor
#1,147by mra13 / Team Tips and Tricks HQ12 days ago
Easily manage downloadable files and monitor downloads of your digital files from your WordPress site.
- Installs
- 20K+
- Rating
- 4.7(158)
- Downloads
- 561/day

Post View Count
Up in the last 7 days:1#3,439by Naresh Parmar1 month ago
Add a "Post View Count" plugin to get the count of views for your posts.
- Installs
- 4K+
- Rating
- 4.6(18)
- Downloads
- 34/day
Posts Character Count Admin
#5,127by Jan Teriete12 years ago
Displays a column with the character count for each post in the Manage Posts SubPanel and in the Edit Posts SubPanel.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 4.3(3)
- Downloads
- 11/day

GravityWP
Down in the last 7 days:25#5,155by GravityWP1 year ago
Count, filter and display the number of Gravity Forms entries or the total of a number field for multiple entries.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 5.0(13)
- Downloads
- 23/day
AJAX Hits Counter + Popular Posts Widget
Down in the last 7 days:11#7,052by kutsy5 years ago
Plugin counts posts views (hits) by using external AJAX based counter script of this plugin, which is best solution for caching whole page or using ot …
- Installs
- 900+
- Rating
- 4.9(17)
- Downloads
- 12/day
Countdown Timer
Down in the last 7 days:16#7,257by fergbrain7 years ago
This plugin allows you to setup a series of dates to count to or from in terms of years, months, weeks, days, hours, minutes, and/or seconds.
- Installs
- 900+
- Rating
- 4.7(10)
- Downloads
- 16/day

Simple Post Views Count
#8,728by ttodua4 years ago
Count visitor views for your posts [ALSO, READ OUR RECOMMENDATION].
- Installs
- 500+
- Rating
- 4.0(4)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Dashboard Wordcount
Down in the last 7 days:43#8,777by ricardjorg10 years ago
Updates the Dashboard's At a Glance widget to show the total word count of all the published posts and age of this WordPress website.
- Installs
- 500+
- Rating
- 5.0(4)
- Downloads
- 11/day
bbP topic count
Down in the last 7 days:47#10,405by Robin W2 months ago
For bbPress - adds any combination of topics, replies and totals under the authors avatar in topics and replies
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 5.0(15)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Posts Social Shares Count
Up in the last 7 days:30#10,477by Bishoy.A11 years ago
Plugin that gives you shortcodes and PHP functions to count posts/pages shares on 6 social networks!
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 3.7(6)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Count Characters, Words and Paragraphs while typing
Down in the last 7 days:23#10,930by Web3574 days ago
Live word, character, paragraph and space counts while you write in the Block editor, the Classic editor or any admin text field.
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 4.5(6)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Most Read Posts in XX days
Down in the last 7 days:25#11,726by Claudio Simeone7 years ago
A simple plugin that counts and shows hits for each Post and Page in your WordPress blog.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Post-counter
Down in the last 7 days:200#13,063by Tomek11 years ago
Writes in the slidebar the numbers of your posts
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Count Posts in a Category, Tag, or Custom Taxonomy
Down in the last 7 days:11#13,770by Luke Mlsna14 years ago
Adds a custom shortcode that returns the number of posts in a category, tag, or custom taxonomy. Accepts a slug (default), ID, or name as input and wo …
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Fix Category Count
Down in the last 7 days:254#16,074by a 53 minute production1 month ago
This plugin will allow you to easily repair and fix your category count for posts, pages and custom post types.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 4.6(9)
- Downloads
- 11/day
number of view
Down in the last 7 days:246#20,465by lavluda15 years ago
A simple plugin to count and display hits of post and pages.
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Count All
Down in the last 7 days:370#20,800by horvath.agoston5 years ago
Very simple, highly customizable counter widget for showing difference in days from a specified date and time.
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- 4.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Post Count
Down in the last 7 days:184#21,292by Nick Momrik11 years ago
Counts the number of posts.
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Word Count Analysis
Down in the last 7 days:142#21,431by Nurullah SERT3 years ago
A simple but useful plugin that gives the word count of your articles.
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
bbP Topic Views
Down in the last 7 days:65#21,872by Gautam Gupta14 years ago
Counts the number of times a bbPress topic has been viewed, and allows the administrator to display the count in various places.
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- 3.7(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Results count
Down in the last 7 days:300#24,158by mat8iou16 years ago
When you search in Google, it tells you at the start how many results you have & what page you are on in the results. The Results Count plugin giv …
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Posts Visitors
Up in the last 7 days:61#25,008by Huda Medoukh4 years ago
A plugin allows you to display how many times the post had been visited.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

DX2 Post Hit Counter
Down in the last 7 days:39#25,445by dx2systems9 years ago
A lightweight counter to track the number of hits on all posts on the website.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Buddy Views
Down in the last 7 days:56#25,968by Mehul Kaklotar10 years ago
Show profile view count for the buddypress user similar to linkedin.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 4.8(4)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Download Count for WooCommerce
Down in the last 7 days:154#26,352by Katsushi Kawamori2 months ago
Displays the number of products downloaded by customers.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Decon Character Counter
Down in the last 7 days:66#26,758by Michael Tumlad11 years ago
Counts the title, content, and excerpt characters while you edit your post or page (even in Quick Edit).
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Simple product counter
#27,230by Webarea5 years ago
Notice with product sales and views for certain period.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Countdown Timer Event
Up in the last 7 days:82#28,461by Wptexture6 years ago
Description: Countdown Timer Event is easy to use and display the responsive countdown timers into pages/posts.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 6/day
Wp User Count
Up in the last 7 days:165#29,353by jaapmarcus15 years ago
Show the current number of users in a line.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 2/day
Comment Count
#29,865by Nick Momrik11 years ago
Counts the number of comments.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 1.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Post Word Count
Up in the last 7 days:138#29,984by Nick Momrik11 years ago
Counts the total number of words in all posts or the number of words in a single post.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Gravity Forms Total Amount Shortcode
#30,599by prontotools9 years ago
A simple shortcode that displays the “Total” filed value from any Gravity Form.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
MetaSlider Downloads
Up in the last 7 days:20,780#30,637by MetaSlider23 days ago
Manage downloadable files and monitor downloads of your digital files from your WordPress site.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day
Category Post Count
Down in the last 7 days:1,331#33,023by WordPress Türkiye11 years ago
With this plugin you can set the posts_per_page and posts_per_rss settings for individual categories.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
WP Views Counter
Down in the last 7 days:307#34,643by Krigus10 years ago
Plugin WP Views Counter is counting views of pages or posts in your blog
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Disqus Count JS Fix
Up in the last 7 days:5,217#35,142by Avishay Bar11 years ago
This plugin fixes the 'split' error caused by Disqus Plugin. This Plugin was developed by Geektime's dev team for internal purposes onl …
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Post Admin View Count
#36,209by Jon Bishop14 years ago
Adds a sortable column to the admin's post manager, displaying the view count for each post.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 1.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
PCF Thanksgiving Countdown
#36,627by PC Futures11 years ago
A simple plugin that creates an easy to use Thanksgiving countdown for your WordPress sites.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
WP Share Simple
#37,533by Vamsi11 years ago
Simple sharing plugin to display social shared count from facebook and twitter
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Subscribers Count
Up in the last 7 days:2,223#37,903by hyptos14 years ago
Subscriber count show up the number of members of your community.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Count Pagination Fix for MySQL
Up in the last 7 days:2,565#38,280by leendertvb1 month ago
Fix for pagination issues under MySQL v8.0 and later where SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS and FOUND_ROWS are no longer supported.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
PCF Christmas Countdown
Down in the last 7 days:1,045#38,645by PC Futures11 years ago
A simple plugin that creates an easy to use Christmas countdown for your WordPress sites.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 3.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Simple Post Word Count
#40,036simple-post-word-count16 years ago
A simple plugin to show the number of words in a post.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 1/day

Corona Results Bangladesh
Up in the last 7 days:4,429#40,537by Rasedul Haque Rumi6 years ago
Corona Results Bangladesh .
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 3.3(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Post Like
#41,145by Aamer Shahzad7 years ago
Post like is a simple ajax based post like/unlike plugin that help your visitors to like posts. Counter shows number of post likes.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Download Count
Up in the last 7 days:4,969#41,191by Thambaru Wijesekara10 years ago
Counts downloads by shortcode and shows it on a column of posts list.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 1/day

WP Post Stats & Analysis
Up in the last 7 days:2,030#41,652by Chamara Denipitiya6 years ago
License: GNU Version 2 or Any Later Version WP Post Stats & Analysis plugin shows post stats & analysis on your WordPress site dashboard for …
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Product Sold Count
Up in the last 7 days:6,126#42,145by Bhaskar Dhote10 years ago
This plugin allow you to show the total number of sold item on the product single page and total view of that product as well .
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 1/day
PopPosts
#42,266by Mudimedia16 years ago
A simple plugin to count and display hits of post and pages.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Image Counter
Up in the last 7 days:2,691#42,543by ajayver13 years ago
This plugin adds a small counter to each image in your posts.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 1.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day