Best popular posts plugins for WordPress
The most popular popular posts plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. WP ULike leads with 60K+ active installs, ahead of WebberZone Top 10 (10K+) and Statify Widget (4K+). All 61 plugins tagged “popular posts” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 popular posts plugins
- 1.
WP ULikeThe most installed popular posts plugin, with 60K+ active installs. Rated 4.8 from 283 reviews, updated 3 weeks ago.
- 2.
WebberZone Top 1010K+ active installs. Rated 4.6 from 102 reviews, updated 5 days ago.
- 3.
Statify Widget4K+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 5 reviews, updated 4 weeks ago.
- 4.
Light Views Counter3K+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, updated 5 months ago.
- 5.
WP Views Counter2K+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 5 reviews, updated 10 months ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.9.11.
- 6.
WP Most Popular1K+ active installs. Rated 4.9 from 11 reviews, last updated 8 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.9.35.
- 7.
YAHMAN Add-ons1K+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, updated 2 months ago.
- 8.
Random Posts and Pages Widget1K+ active installs. Only 4 reviews so far, updated 6 months ago.
- 9.
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.
- 10.
Most And Least Read Posts Widget900+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 6 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
All 61 plugins tagged “popular posts”
WP ULike
Up in the last 7 days:1#680by Alimir22 days ago
One-click like buttons your visitors actually use, plus a built-in analytics dashboard that shows what your audience loves. No vote limits.
- Installs
- 60K+
- Rating
- 4.8(283)
- Downloads
- 433/day
WebberZone Top 10
Down in the last 7 days:6#1,536by Ajay5 days ago
Track post views and page views, and display popular posts and trending content on your WordPress site.
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 4.6(102)
- Downloads
- 379/day
Statify Widget
Down in the last 7 days:2#3,580by Finn Dohrn28 days ago
Data privacy conform widget for list popular content (pages, posts, custom post types) – based on Statify plugin.
- Installs
- 4K+
- Rating
- 5.0(5)
- Downloads
- 32/day
Light Views Counter
Up in the last 7 days:47#3,822by ThemeRuby5 months ago
Lightweight and fast post view counter with smart tracking, built for high-traffic sites and large post databases.
- Installs
- 3K+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 43/day
WP Views Counter
Down in the last 7 days:21#4,671by etruel10 months ago
Fast, lightweight post views counter. Display views in admin, blocks or shortcodes — no tracking scripts required.
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 5.0(5)
- Downloads
- 19/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
- 17/day
YAHMAN Add-ons
Up in the last 7 days:11#5,844by YAHMAN2 months ago
YAHMAN Add-ons has Multiple functions.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 22/day
Random Posts and Pages Widget
Down in the last 7 days:52#6,620by Ays Pro6 months ago
The main advantage of this widget is random movement of random links and every time they are changing.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 5.0(4)
- Downloads
- 14/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
- 10/day
Most And Least Read Posts Widget
Down in the last 7 days:8#7,154by whiletrue2 months ago
Provide two widgets, showing lists of the most and reast read posts.
- Installs
- 900+
- Rating
- 5.0(6)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Relevant
Down in the last 7 days:55#7,400by bestweblayout1 year ago
Add related, featured, latest, and popular posts to your WordPress website. Connect your blog readers with a relevant content.
- Installs
- 800+
- Rating
- 3.5(13)
- Downloads
- 13/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
Advanced Related Posts
#10,298by Ays Pro6 months ago
This plugin allows you to display related posts with widget or under the post with advanced options.
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 4.0(4)
- Downloads
- 14/day
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
SB Popular Posts Tabbed Widget
Up in the last 7 days:60#16,142by Scott Bolinger11 years ago
A lightweight, responsive, uncluttered widget to display popular posts, recent posts, and categories with tabs.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 4.3(7)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Toplytics
Down in the last 7 days:174#18,232by Presslabs2 months ago
Displays the most visited posts as a widget using data from Google Analytics. Designed to be used under high-traffic or low server resources.
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- 5.0(9)
- Downloads
- 11/day
WP-Popular Posts Tool
Down in the last 7 days:66#18,362by teo715 years ago
Enables you to automatically display most commented posts, either by category or tag. Optional: You can choose manually the category or tag you want t …
- Installs
- 70+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/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
PubExchange
Down in the last 7 days:62#19,571by PubExchange7 months ago
Use the PubExchange widget to promote content from the sites that you have partnered with through PubExchange.com
- Installs
- 60+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day
Simple Post View Counter
#23,376by Sadhan Pal2 months ago
Lightweight post view counter with a widget and shortcodes. Track post views automatically, stop double-counting, and display popular content easily.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 8/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
New Popular Posts Widget
Up in the last 7 days:49#27,298by Rashadul Alam10 years ago
Popular Posts Widget with featured image will list blog posts based on views of the posts.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 3.7(3)
- Downloads
- 1/day
Page View
Up in the last 7 days:165#28,351by Nirmal Bhagwani10 years ago
This plugin makes the list of the most popular 10 posts which you can see in sidebar just by activating it.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
WSH Views Counter
Up in the last 7 days:8,468#33,955by Web Solutions Hub · websolutions.online24 days ago
Track WordPress post, page and WooCommerce product views with built-in reports, statistics and flexible display options.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
The Hits List
#34,160by Adam Greenwell1 month ago
Track post views locally, display popular posts, and migrate Top 10 data into a completely free, drop-in replacement.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/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
Featured Posts Widget
#36,696by DannyCooper9 years ago
Add a selection of posts to your sidebar or another widget location.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
WP-xPerts Popular Posts
#37,556by sajid hussain9 years ago
Display Most popular posts or most viewed posts on your blog using widget in sidebar, it also supports custom post types
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 2/day
Disqus Popular Threads Widget
Up in the last 7 days:6,372#38,954by Ron Zvagelsky13 years ago
Shows your most commented posts from Disqus via widget, shortcode, or template tag.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 3.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
KR Popular Posts
Up in the last 7 days:7,756#40,069by knowledgering15 years ago
KR Popular Posts shows graph of a posts popularity percentage. Popularity based on post views, comments, ratings, retweets and facebook likes ( popula …
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- 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
4bzCore
#41,841by 4bzthemes11 years ago
A collection of shortcodes, widgets, a shortcode builder, multiple featured images, a related posts module, and much more.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
WPR General Posts
Down in the last 7 days:7,091#43,916by aryanduntley8 years ago
Gives you full control of a post listing widget.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 2/day
Advance Widget Pack
Down in the last 7 days:66#44,676by saumya0101 month ago
A pack of content widgets and blocks: recent/popular/related posts, author info, tag cloud, social links, countdown timer, and more.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 4.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
GA-PVcounter
Down in the last 7 days:301#45,436by enomoto celtislab13 years ago
Google Analytics PageView counter and Popular posts, Recent posts widget
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Fancy Posts Widget
Up in the last 7 days:197#45,967by Mazinger13 years ago
Another posts widget plugin
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- 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
anpPopular Post
Up in the last 7 days:1,465#46,854by antocara14 years ago
Widget to display a list of the most commented posts. The posts are displayed on a color scale of colors.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Launchpad Popular Posts
Up in the last 7 days:4#47,057by Vinhdd7 years ago
This is a very simple, easy to use plugin which creates a widget that can be used to display Popular Posts, Related Posts, Featured Posts, Recent Post …
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Related Content by Plugz
Down in the last 7 days:1,483#47,240by csiszi10 years ago
ad network, ads, advertising, widget, contextual, nrelate, outbrain, yarpp, taboola, money Requires at least: 1.8 Tested up to: 4.3.1 Stable tag: 1.6.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 3.5(6)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Recent Popular Comment Tag Widget
Down in the last 7 days:6,619#47,647by Md Abunaser Khan8 years ago
Provides flexible and advanced recent posts. Display it via shortcode or widget with thumbnails, post excerpt, taxonomy and more.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
RB Post Views Widget
Up in the last 7 days:15,526#50,109by Bashir Rased3 months ago
Display the most viewed posts on your website using a simple, lightweight widget.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
CreceWeb Lumen Lite
Up in the last 7 days:15,333#54,156by creceweb1 month ago
Lumen patterns, Site Kits, reading tools, Lumen Posts, Color Mode, Search Modal, sharing, messaging, menus, and footer tools for Lumen Theme.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Inaikas Posts Widget
#56,003by Mohammed Abdellaouitoday
A widget and a shortcode that show the latest posts or the best posts (most viewed or most commented).
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- –
Master Query Loop
#56,386by dat09.vuquoc3 years ago
The plugin helps you to add advanced features to the WordPress core query loop block: get specific posts, popular posts and more!
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
ViewRank Post View Rankings
Up in the last 7 days:10,120#57,621by ikedajapan19 days ago
Lightweight page-view tracking and popular-post ranking for WordPress.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
ZMonstrs EEAT SEO
#58,942by zmonstrs4 months ago
Show search engines and AI answer engines who is behind your content. A smart author bio box that builds E-E-A-T and promotes your best posts.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Popular Posts for Divi
Up in the last 7 days:13,818#59,083by Trusty Plugins1 year ago
Count post views and display your popular posts with charts and analytics with divi theme.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day