Title: WP Popular Posts Author: Hector Cabrera Published: ноември 20, 2008 Last modified: февруари 17, 2026 --- Search plugins ![](https://ps.w.org/wordpress-popular-posts/assets/banner-772x250.png?rev=2833998) ![](https://ps.w.org/wordpress-popular-posts/assets/icon-256x256.png?rev=1232659) # WP Popular Posts By [Hector Cabrera](https://profiles.wordpress.org/hcabrera/) [Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/wordpress-popular-posts.7.3.8.zip) * [Details](https://mk.wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-popular-posts/#description) * [Reviews](https://mk.wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-popular-posts/#reviews) * [Installation](https://mk.wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-popular-posts/#installation) * [Development](https://mk.wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-popular-posts/#developers) [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wordpress-popular-posts/) ## Description WP Popular Posts is a highly customizable plugin that displays your most popular posts. #### PSA: Plugin has been renamed as WP Popular Posts! See the [announcement](https://cabrerahector.com/wordpress/wordpress-popular-posts-renamed-to-wp-popular-posts/) for more details. #### Main Features * **Multiple Popular Posts Lists** – You can have several Popular Posts lists on your blog, each with its own settings! * **Time Range** – List those posts of your blog that have been the most popular ones within a specific time range (eg. last 24 hours, last 7 days, last 30 days, etc)! * **Custom Post-type support** – Want to show other stuff than just posts and pages, eg. Popular _Products_? [You can](https://github.com/cabrerahector/wordpress-popular-posts/wiki/5.-FAQ#i-want-to-have-a-popular-list-of-my-custom-post-type-how-can-i-do-that)! * **Thumbnails!** – Display a thumbnail of your posts! (_see the [FAQ section](https://github.com/cabrerahector/wordpress-popular-posts/wiki/5.-FAQ#how-does-wordpress-popular-posts-pick-my-posts-thumbnails) for more details_.) * **Statistics dashboard** – See how your popular posts are doing directly from your admin area. * **Sorting options** – Order your popular list by comments, views (default) or average views per day! * **Custom themes** – Out of the box, WP Popular Posts includes some themes so you can style your popular posts list (see [Widget Themes](https://github.com/cabrerahector/wordpress-popular-posts/wiki/6.-Styling-the-list#themes) for more details). * **Use your own layout!** – WPP is flexible enough to let you customize the look and feel of your popular posts! (see [customizing WPP’s HTML markup](https://github.com/cabrerahector/wordpress-popular-posts/wiki/5.-FAQ#how-can-i-use-my-own-html-markup-with-your-plugin) and [How to style WP Popular Posts](https://github.com/cabrerahector/wordpress-popular-posts/wiki/6.-Styling-the-list) for more.) * **Performance Tools!** – WP Popular Posts includes a few options to make sure your site’s performance stays as good as ever! (see [Performance](https://github.com/cabrerahector/wordpress-popular-posts/wiki/7.-Performance) for more details.) * **REST API support** – Embed your popular posts in your (web) app! (see [REST API Endpoints](https://github.com/cabrerahector/wordpress-popular-posts/wiki/8.-REST-API-Endpoints) for more.) * **Elementor support** – Are you building sites with Elementor? There’s a popular posts widget for it too! * **Disqus support** – Sort your popular posts by Disqus comments count! * **Polylang & WPML 3.2+ support** – Show the translated version of your popular posts! * **WordPress Multisite support** – Each site on the network can have its own popular posts list! #### Other Features * **Shortcode support** – Use the [wpp] shortcode to showcase your most popular posts on pages, too! For usage and instructions, please refer to the [Installation section](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-popular-posts/#installation). * **Template tags** – Don’t feel like using blocks? No problem! You can still embed your most popular entries on your theme using the `wpp_get_mostpopular()` template tag. Additionally, the `wpp_get_views()` template tag allows you to retrieve the views count for a particular post. For usage and instructions, please refer to the [Installation section](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-popular-posts/#installation). * **Localization** – [Translate WPP into your own language](https://github.com/cabrerahector/wordpress-popular-posts/wiki/5.-FAQ#i-want-to-translate-your-plugin-into-my-language--help-you-update-a-translation-what-do-i-need-to-do). * **[WP-PostRatings](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-postratings/) support** – Show your visitors how your readers are rating your posts! #### PSA: The classic WP Popular Posts widget has reached End-of-Life The classic WP Popular Posts widget doesn’t work very well / at all with the [block-based Widgets editor](https://wordpress.org/documentation/article/block-based-widgets-editor/) introduced with WordPress 5.8. This new Widgets editor expects [WordPress blocks](https://wordpress.org/documentation/article/blocks-list/) instead of regular WordPress widgets. If you’re using the classic WP Popular Posts widget please replace it with the [WP Popular Posts block](https://cabrerahector.com/wordpress/wordpress-popular-posts-5-3-improved-php-8-support-retina-display-support-and-more/#block-editor-support) instead – it has the same features and functionality as the “classic” widget so you won’t be missing anything at all. See the [Migration Guide](https://cabrerahector.com/wordpress/migrating-from-the-classic-popular-posts-widget/) for more details. Bjorn from wplearninglab.com was kind enough to create a video explaining how to use the new block for all of you visual learners: If you cannot (or do not want to) use WordPress blocks on your website then please replace your classic widget with the [[wpp] shortcode](https://github.com/cabrerahector/wordpress-popular-posts/wiki/1.-Using-WPP-on-posts-&-pages#the-wpp-shortcode). #### Support the Project! If you’d like to support my work and efforts to creating and maintaining more open source projects your donations and messages of support mean a lot! [Buy me a coffee](https://ko-fi.com/cabrerahector) | [PayPal](https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/cabrerahector) **WP Popular Posts** is now also on [GitHub](https://github.com/cabrerahector/wordpress-popular-posts)! Looking for a **Recent Posts** widget just as featured-packed as WP Popular Posts?** Try [Recently](https://wordpress.org/plugins/recently/)**! ### Credits * Flame graphic by freevector/Vecteezy.com. ## Screenshots * [[ * The WP Popular Posts block. * [[ * The WP Popular Posts block on theme’s sidebar. * [[ * The WP Popular Posts widget for Elementor. * [[ * Dashboard widget. * [[ * Statistics panel. ## Blocks This plugin provides 1 block. * WP Popular Posts ## Installation Please make sure your site meets the [minimum requirements](https://github.com/cabrerahector/wordpress-popular-posts#requirements) before proceeding. #### Automatic installation 1. Log in into your WordPress dashboard. 2. Go to Plugins > Add New. 3. In the “Search Plugins” field, type in **WP Popular Posts** and hit Enter. 4. Find the plugin in the search results list and click on the “Install Now” button. #### Manual installation 1. Download the plugin and extract its contents. 2. Upload the `wordpress-popular-posts` folder to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory. 3. Activate the **WP Popular Posts** plugin through the “Plugins” menu in WordPress. #### Done! What’s next? 1. Please see the Usage section below to learn how to add a popular post list to your site. Once you’re done, keep reading. 2. If you have a caching plugin installed on your site, flush its cache now so WPP can start tracking your site. 3. If you have a plugin that minifies JavaScript (JS) installed on your site please read this FAQ: [Is WP Popular Posts compatible with plugins that minify/bundle JavaScript code?](https://github.com/cabrerahector/wordpress-popular-posts/wiki/5.-FAQ#is-wordpress-popular-posts-compatible-with-plugins-that-minifybundle-javascript-code) 4. If you have a security / firewall plugin installed on your site, make sure you [allow WPP access to the REST API](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wpp-does-not-count-properly/#post-10411163) so it can start tracking your site. 5. Go to Appearance > Editor > Theme File Editor. Under “Theme Files”, click on “Theme Header” (`header.php`) and make sure that the `` tag is present( it should be somewhere before the closing `` tag). 6. (Optional but highly recommended) Are you running a medium/high traffic site? If so, it might be a good idea to check [these suggestions](https://github.com/cabrerahector/wordpress-popular-posts/wiki/7.-Performance) to make sure your site’s performance stays up to par. That’s it! #### USAGE WP Popular Posts can be used in four different ways: 1. If you’re using the [Block Editor](https://wordpress.org/support/article/wordpress-editor/) you can insert a WP Popular Posts block on your sidebar and even anywhere within your posts and pages. 2. As a template tag: you can place it anywhere on your theme with [`wpp_get_mostpopular()`](https://github.com/cabrerahector/wordpress-popular-posts/wiki/2.-Template-tags#wpp_get_mostpopular). 3. Via [shortcode](https://github.com/cabrerahector/wordpress-popular-posts/wiki/1.-Using-WPP-on-posts-&-pages), so you can embed it inside a post or a page. 4. If you’re using [Elementor](https://wordpress.org/plugins/elementor/) on your site you can use the [WP Popular Posts widget for Elementor](https://cabrerahector.com/wordpress/wordpress-popular-posts-7-3-experimental-elementor-support/). Make sure to stop by the **[Wiki](https://github.com/cabrerahector/wordpress-popular-posts/wiki)** as well, you’ll find even more info there! ## FAQ The FAQ section has been moved [here](https://github.com/cabrerahector/wordpress-popular-posts/wiki/5.-FAQ). ## Reviews ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/1c62c39be69bd358819c790be0da178a966d8a64e4b329f0ab9dc655b939b90e? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Complete Design Flaw](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/complete-design-flaw/)󠁿 [xtrabytes](https://profiles.wordpress.org/xtrabytes/) јануари 11, 2026 1 reply WordPress Popular Posts is fundamentally broken for cached sites. It defeats the entire purpose of Nginx/WP Rocket caching. There you spend all your energy optimizing to reduce every imaginable PHP FPM invocation, let alone the absurd DB query cascade of WP, and then this plugin comes and fires a XHR to the backend to load content that could have and should have come prerendered through the main page request. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/196372762c370db561df1cab1b43ddbdc086092cc029580ae47b514d8c616d26? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Great plugin – great support](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/great-plugin-great-support-1988/)󠁿 [seegeist](https://profiles.wordpress.org/seegeist/) мај 27, 2025 1 reply I’ve only been using the plugin for a few days. At first I had a problem, thanks to the good and fast support I was able to solve the problem quickly, it was not due to the plugin, but to my theme. Since then everything has been working as it should. They also respond to change requests. Just great. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/971f6b88833ed050478815d6adcb22115bf29ea7b38c0c670d72841e32e85855? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[No css customization option](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/no-css-customization-option/)󠁿 [abre01](https://profiles.wordpress.org/abre01/) мај 24, 2025 1 reply Out of sheer frustration I would like to give only one star because the css style cannot be changed in the normal way. I have tried for hours. It is only possible with great effort, e.g. via changes in funcions.php. Since the plugin works otherwise, I still give it 3 stars. It’s a pity, but because of the missing css customization option I threw it down! ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/0b120c4d93a66eed8bdf0092f8e382224491d330b4d2b8508988982e4143c242? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Plugin incrível](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-incrivel-10/)󠁿 [D](https://profiles.wordpress.org/subdigus/) ноември 23, 2024 1 reply A melhor e mais elegante maneira de exibir postagens populares em seu site. Simples e prático. Altamente recomendável. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/3ce902d4f1a8f529b6cda627e8a001a1124b2663dc6a282e2d9e49c68a975b0e? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Works good with Elementor!](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/works-good-with-elementor-2/)󠁿 [kspr](https://profiles.wordpress.org/kspr/) октомври 26, 2024 4 replies Used it through the REST API to set it up with Elementor Pro, worked like a charm, good job. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/0bd726a50962713ac2579ef7dd8f715e5fae23e3c2d84fdf5e9e80c32fb6e743? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Simple plugin. Does what it says.](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/simple-plugin-does-what-it-says-2/)󠁿 [smkstoll](https://profiles.wordpress.org/smkstoll/) октомври 16, 2024 1 reply Thanks for your support. [ Read all 249 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wordpress-popular-posts/reviews/) ## Contributors & Developers “WP Popular Posts” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin. Contributors * [ Hector Cabrera ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/hcabrera/) “WP Popular Posts” has been translated into 16 locales. Thank you to [the translators](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/wordpress-popular-posts/contributors) for their contributions. [Translate “WP Popular Posts” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/wordpress-popular-posts) ### Interested in development? [Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wordpress-popular-posts/), check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/wordpress-popular-posts/), or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/wordpress-popular-posts/) by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/wordpress-popular-posts/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss). ## Changelog #### 7.3.8 * Fixes a character encoding issue that can happen under some circumstances (props to qwe987299 for the report!) [Release notes](https://cabrerahector.com/wordpress/wordpress-popular-posts-7-3-experimental-elementor-support/#7.3.8) #### 7.3.7 * Fixes shortcode rendering empty tags (props to NetzzJD for the report!) * Renames filter hook pretiffy_numbers to prettify_numbers. * Adds toggle to display the Y-axis in the Stats chart. * Minor code improvements. [Release notes](https://cabrerahector.com/wordpress/wordpress-popular-posts-7-3-experimental-elementor-support/#7.3.7) #### 7.3.6 **If you’re updating from a previous version please clear your popular posts thumbnails cache via WP Dashboard > Settings > WP Popular Posts > Tools > Thumbnails > Empty image cache button.** * Improves security around thumbnail generation (props to smile9381!) * Removes deprecated /v1/popular-posts POST endpoint. * Minimum required PHP version is now 7.4. * Minor code improvements. [Release notes](https://cabrerahector.com/wordpress/wordpress-popular-posts-7-3-experimental-elementor-support/#7.3.6) #### 7.3.5 * Fixes Elementor widget stuck in infinite loading animation. * Fixes broken database query in get_views() (props to raphaelw!) * Fixes an issue where config.json files from theme overrides would be ignored ( thanks alexg904!) * Minor styling enhancements. [Release notes](https://cabrerahector.com/wordpress/wordpress-popular-posts-7-3-experimental-elementor-support/#7.3.5) #### 7.3.4 * New name! See the [Rename announcement](https://cabrerahector.com/wordpress/wordpress-popular-posts-renamed-to-wp-popular-posts/) for more details. * Minimum required WordPress version is now 6.2. * Minor code improvements. [Release notes](https://cabrerahector.com/wordpress/wordpress-popular-posts-7-3-experimental-elementor-support/#7.3.4) #### 7.3.3 * Hotfix: wpp shortcode no longer forces AJAX loading on. [Release notes](https://cabrerahector.com/wordpress/wordpress-popular-posts-7-3-experimental-elementor-support/#7.3.3) #### 7.3.2 * Compatibility: Fixes a fatal error that can happen when using Polylang. * Compatibility: Themes should now work with WP-Rocket. * New notice about Pretty Permalinks being required has been added. * Fixes shortcode getting stuck on the loading animation in Elementor’s editor. [Release notes](https://cabrerahector.com/wordpress/wordpress-popular-posts-7-3-experimental-elementor-support/#7.3.2) #### 7.3.1 * Fixes wpp_start/end being striped out if empty (props to ispreview!) * Fixes posts not loading on the Stats screen for Author users (props to waheed61!) [Release notes](https://cabrerahector.com/wordpress/wordpress-popular-posts-7-3-experimental-elementor-support/#7.3.1) #### 7.3.0 **If you’re using a caching plugin and/or a plugin that minifies JavaScript code it’s highly recommended to clear its cache after installing / updating to this version.** * Adds Elementor support: WordPress Popular Posts now includes a native Elementor widget! See [Release notes](https://cabrerahector.com/wordpress/wordpress-popular-posts-7-3-experimental-elementor-support/) for more details. * Adds [get_ids()](https://github.com/cabrerahector/wordpress-popular-posts/wiki/2.-Template-tags#wpp_get_ids) function to facilitate getting the IDs of your popular posts. * Admin section usability improvements. * The “Empty cache” and “Clear all data” buttons have been removed from the Admin section. * Improves compatibility with PHP 8.4 (thanks ispreview for the heads-up!) * Minimum required PHP version is now 7.3. * Minor code changes & improvements. [Release notes](https://cabrerahector.com/wordpress/wordpress-popular-posts-7-3-experimental-elementor-support/) [Full Changelog](https://github.com/cabrerahector/wordpress-popular-posts/blob/master/changelog.md) ## Meta * Version **7.3.8** * Last updated **2 месеци ago** * Active installations **100.000+** * WordPress version ** 6.2 or higher ** * Tested up to **6.9.4** * PHP version ** 7.4 or higher ** * Languages * [Catalan](https://ca.wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-popular-posts/), [Dutch](https://nl.wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-popular-posts/), [English (Australia)](https://en-au.wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-popular-posts/), [English (Canada)](https://en-ca.wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-popular-posts/), [English (New Zealand)](https://en-nz.wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-popular-posts/), [English (UK)](https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-popular-posts/), [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-popular-posts/), [German](https://de.wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-popular-posts/), [Japanese](https://ja.wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-popular-posts/), [Portuguese (Brazil)](https://br.wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-popular-posts/), [Russian](https://ru.wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-popular-posts/), [Spanish (Chile)](https://cl.wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-popular-posts/), [Spanish (Colombia)](https://es-co.wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-popular-posts/), [Spanish (Ecuador)](https://es-ec.wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-popular-posts/), [Spanish (Spain)](https://es.wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-popular-posts/), [Spanish (Venezuela)](https://ve.wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-popular-posts/) и [Ukrainian](https://uk.wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-popular-posts/). * [Translate into your language](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/wordpress-popular-posts) * Tags * [popular](https://mk.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/popular/)[popularity](https://mk.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/popularity/) [posts](https://mk.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/posts/)[top](https://mk.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/top/) [widget](https://mk.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/widget/) * [Advanced View](https://mk.wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-popular-posts/advanced/) ## Ratings 4.5 out of 5 stars. * [ 205 5-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wordpress-popular-posts/reviews/?filter=5) * [ 11 4-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wordpress-popular-posts/reviews/?filter=4) * [ 6 3-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wordpress-popular-posts/reviews/?filter=3) * [ 5 2-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wordpress-popular-posts/reviews/?filter=2) * [ 21 1-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wordpress-popular-posts/reviews/?filter=1) [Add my review](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wordpress-popular-posts/reviews/#new-post) [See all reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wordpress-popular-posts/reviews/) ## Contributors * [ Hector Cabrera ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/hcabrera/) ## Support Issues resolved in last two months: 7 out of 8 [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wordpress-popular-posts/) ## Donate Would you like to support the advancement of this plugin? 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