Best popularity plugins for WordPress
The most popular popularity 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 Vote It Up (80+) and number of view (50+). All 14 plugins tagged “popularity” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 popularity plugins
- 1.
WP Popular PostsThe most installed popularity plugin, with 100K+ active installs. Rated 4.5 from 249 reviews, updated 6 days ago.
- 2.
Vote It Up80+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 12 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.9.40.
- 3.
number of view50+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 15 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.2.1.
- 4.
Popular Posts50+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 9 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.7.39.
- 5.
WP-Ranking PRO40+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 9 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.8.34.
- 6.
Popularity Lists Widget10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 17 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 2.7.
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PopPosts10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 16 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 2.8.4.
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Starbox Voting10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 17 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 2.7.
- 9.
User Popularity Contest10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 15 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 2.1.
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Showdown10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 10 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.5.33.
All 14 plugins tagged “popularity”
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
Vote It Up
Down in the last 7 days:169#17,642by multippt12 years ago
The Vote It Up plugin enables visitors to vote for and against posts.
- Installs
- 80+
- Rating
- 1.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
number of view
Down in the last 7 days:142#20,358by lavluda15 years ago
A simple plugin to count and display hits of post and pages.
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- –
- 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
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
PopPosts
Down in the last 7 days:4,496#42,306by Mudimedia16 years ago
A simple plugin to count and display hits of post and pages.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Starbox Voting
Down in the last 7 days:1,360#43,352by jigenhe17 years ago
This plugin adds voting functionality for posts. visitors can vote for the post and against.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
User Popularity Contest
#45,267by flomincucci15 years ago
Users vote each other.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Showdown
Down in the last 7 days:10,773#46,660by Weborithm10 years ago
Showdown popularity contests on your site!
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day