Best popular plugins for WordPress
The most popular popular plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. WP Popular Posts leads with 100K+ active installs, ahead of WP-Stats (2K+) and WP Most Popular (1K+). All 36 plugins tagged “popular” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 popular plugins
- 1.
WP Popular PostsThe most installed popular plugin, with 100K+ active installs. Rated 4.5 from 249 reviews, updated 6 days ago.
- 2.
WP-Stats2K+ active installs. Rated 2.6 from 7 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
- 3.
WP Most Popular1K+ active installs. Rated 4.9 from 11 reviews, last updated 8 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.9.35.
- 4.
Popular Posts by Webline1K+ active installs. Rated 4.0 from 9 reviews, last updated 1 year ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.7.11.
- 5.
Popular Posts800+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 8 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 2.6.2.
- 6.
Popular Widget600+ active installs. Rated 4.5 from 14 reviews, last updated 8 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.6.0.
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Most Commented Widget300+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 10 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.4.34.
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Most Popular Tags200+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, last updated 11 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.2.39.
- 9.
Jetpack Popular Posts60+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 12 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.7.41.
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Popular Posts50+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 9 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.7.39.
All 36 plugins tagged “popular”
WP Popular Posts
Down in the last 7 days:1#334by Hector Cabrera6 days ago
A highly customizable, easy-to-use popular posts plugin!
- Installs
- 100K+
- Rating
- 4.5(249)
- Downloads
- 1.3K/day
WP-Stats
Up in the last 7 days:2#4,419by Lester Chan2 months ago
Display your WordPress blog statistics. Ranging from general total statistics, some of my plugins statistics and top 10 statistics.
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 2.6(7)
- Downloads
- 32/day
WP Most Popular
Down in the last 7 days:12#5,106by MattGeri8 years ago
WP Most Popular is a simple plugin which tracks your most popular blog posts based on views and lets you display them in your theme or blog sidebar.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 4.9(11)
- Downloads
- 22/day
Popular Posts by Webline
Down in the last 7 days:42#6,922by WeblineIndia1 year ago
Popular Posts will display the posts according to the filters applied from widget settings.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 4.0(9)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Popular Posts
Down in the last 7 days:4#7,462by RobMarsh9 years ago
Popular Posts displays a list of your blog's most-viewed posts. The output can be customised in many ways.
- Installs
- 800+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Popular Widget
Up in the last 7 days:1#8,120by Hax9 years ago
Display the most commented or most viewed posts in a tabbed widget, filter the post by date range or by category. It also includes a tags tab.
- Installs
- 600+
- Rating
- 4.5(14)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Most Commented Widget
Down in the last 7 days:16#10,879by Nick Momrik11 years ago
Add a widget to display a list of the posts/pages with the most comments.
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Most Popular Tags
Down in the last 7 days:32#11,152by maxpagels11 years ago
Most Popular Tags is a plugin that displays your WordPress site's most popular tags, categories and custom taxonomies as a sidebar widget.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Jetpack Popular Posts
Down in the last 7 days:57#19,358by LordPretender13 years ago
Using Jetpack stats, this widget will display the most popular posts.
- Installs
- 60+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Popular Posts
#21,114by Aftabul Islam9 years ago
WordPress comes with greate feature where popularity testing of posts is very essential need and Popular Posts can be a great tool to serve the want.
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
WP-Ranking PRO
Down in the last 7 days:547#22,727by plugmize9 years ago
"WP-Ranking PRO" totals a page view, and into which a popular article can be formed by various elements or periods.
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
My Popular Posts Widget
Down in the last 7 days:149#23,512by gdthemes12 years ago
A very simple popular posts widget which displays posts by comment count (with featured image).
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Most Comments
Up in the last 7 days:238#24,849by Nader18 years ago
Display posts with the most comments, as a widget or on a page using the template tag. Customize the look with specific settings.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
SiteStats
Down in the last 7 days:188#26,770by mrpaolo12 years ago
Provides useful and interesting statistics about your Wordpress website.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Best Rating & Pageviews
Down in the last 7 days:282#29,044by icopydoc6 months ago
Add Star rating, pageviews and adds a tool for analyzing the effectiveness of content with the supplied shortcode.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 4.3(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Minimalist Tag Cloud
Up in the last 7 days:33#31,237by saucecode9 years ago
Customisable widget and shortcode to display tag cloud with option to show tag count anywhere you want.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Recent Popular Tags
Down in the last 7 days:92#31,471by Travis Pflanz12 years ago
Display the most popular recently used blog post tags on your website. Valuable for website with current events... No more old tags!
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 3.7(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Easy Popular Posts
#32,193by Nick Adams10 years ago
An easy to use WordPress function to add popular posts to any theme.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 3.3(4)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Popular Authors
Up in the last 7 days:179#34,333by Ajay5 days ago
Discover and appreciate your blog’s most popular authors, a simple and powerful addon for Top 10 - Popular Posts for WordPress.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Most Liked Posts
Up in the last 7 days:2,018#36,740by wkrzysztofik11 years ago
Wordpress widget displaying list of posts ordered by number of Facebook likes.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
StatCounter Popular Posts
Up in the last 7 days:6,740#37,198by subins200010 years ago
Displays Popular Posts From StatCounter stats as a widget. Only you have to do is make the stats public and give the project ID to this plugin.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Popular This Week
Up in the last 7 days:4,513#39,122by chrisnorthwood17 years ago
Provides a widget that shows the most popular posts in the last week.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
bbPress Popular Topics
#39,188by Eduardo Leoni12 years ago
Shortcode to show the topics with more replies
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Popularity Lists Widget
#40,048by tomoya18 years ago
Popularity Lists Widget is a wordPress widget, Operates by using "Popularity Contest" Plugin. And, a popular article is output as a list.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Post Ranking View
Up in the last 7 days:6,704#41,202by Leo Baiano13 years ago
This plugin counts the number of visitors to each post and generates a ranking of most viewed posts.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
cool Popular Post
#41,623by culplarry11 years ago
A very easy to use WordPress function to add popular posts to any WordPress theme.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Popular Posts Count
Up in the last 7 days:856#41,654by Mohammed Salman Khan8 years ago
Popular Posts Count is a widget plugin which displays popular posts by VIEWS / COMMENTS on your blog in cool style.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 3.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Easy Popular Posts Widget
Down in the last 7 days:9,142#46,296by rakib837310 years ago
By using this plugin you able to show most popular posts as a widget on your blog based on filters.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
bbPress Top Contributors
#46,383by Eduardo Leoni12 years ago
Shortcode to show the authors that have posted more
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
WP Author Ranking
#47,611by minojiro12 years ago
WP Author Ranking the wordpress plugin provides ranking of the popular blog authors. Results are depends on page viewing numbers.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
News ticker
Down in the last 7 days:1,063#47,655by errror16 years ago
The plugin allows you to broadcast your news on other sites that will give you additional users and the popularity of the network.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 1.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Sup Post Widget
#48,271by UspDev11 years ago
Is a plugin where you can display the number of popular posts, latest and random post with thumbnail image on your sidebar or page/post using short co …
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Popular Post Real Time
Down in the last 7 days:8,295#48,308by vicenteguerra10 years ago
Set Category with Popular Posts (Based in Google Analytics Real Time)
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 1.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
CP Popular Blog
Up in the last 7 days:19,119#49,088by chandanp6194 years ago
This is a customized plugin to display the top 5 popular posts of any custom post type you create. Configure your widget and it will start storing the …
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Random AND Popular Post
Up in the last 7 days:3,956#68,618by themorshed6 years ago
This is a Lightweight WordPress plugin to Display Random posts, popular posts etc.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day