Best most popular posts plugins for WordPress
The most popular most popular posts plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Popular Post Widget leads with 100+ active installs, ahead of Simple Popular Posts (10+). All 2 plugins tagged “most popular posts” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 2 most popular posts plugins
- 1.
Popular Post WidgetThe most installed most popular posts plugin, with 100+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 8 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.9.35.
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Simple Popular Posts10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 16 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 2.9.2.
All 2 plugins tagged “most popular posts”
Popular Post Widget
Down in the last 7 days:14#13,138by Mostafiz Shamim9 years ago
Popular post widget is a simple widget to show your most popular posts based on views.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Simple Popular Posts
Up in the last 7 days:2,153#35,144by jimmysun16 years ago
Creates a very simple and basic widget for your sidebar to display most popular posts on your blog based on the number of comments only.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day