WordPress Popular Posts is a highly customizable widget that displays your most popular posts.
Main Features
Multi-widget capable – You can have several widgets of WordPress Popular Posts 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!
Thumbnails! – Display a thumbnail of your posts! (see the FAQ section 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, WordPress Popular Posts includes some themes so you can style your popular posts list (see Widget Themes for more details).
Advanced caching features! – WordPress Popular Posts includes a few options to make sure your site’s performance stays as good as ever! (see Performance for more details.)
REST API Support – Embed your popular posts in your (web) app! (see REST API Endpoints for more.)
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.
Template tags – Don’t feel like using widgets? 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.
WP-PostRatings support – Show your visitors how your readers are rating your posts!
PSA: The classic WordPress Popular Posts widget is going away!
The classic WordPress Popular Posts widget doesn’t work very well / at all with the new Widgets screen introduced with WordPress 5.8.
This new Widgets screen expects WordPress blocks instead of regular WordPress widgets. If you’re using the classic WordPress Popular Posts widget on your block-based Widgets screen please replace it with the WordPress Popular Posts block instead – it has the same features and functionality as the “classic” widget so you won’t be missing anything at all.
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.
Support the Project!
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If you’re using a caching plugin on your website, clearing its cache after installing / updating to this version is highly recommended.
Deprecation Notice: The WordPress Popular Posts “classic” widget is going away! If you’re using the classic widget please replace it with the WordPress Popular Posts block or the [wpp] shortcode as soon as possible. See release notes for more details.
Plugin now uses the Tax_Query class to filter popular posts by taxonomy, pretty much similar to how WP_Query does it.
Fixes an issue where selecting the Tiny theme would override the heading of the popular posts list.
Fixes an issue where taxonomy links would render an extra whitespace for some browsers.
Fixes issue where when using a theme (eg. Cards) post titles would be unintentionally truncated.
