As of April 2026, PageViews Counter is a WordPress Counter plugin with 100 active installations and a 5/5 rating from 2 reviews. It has been downloaded 6.3K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 5.3+ and PHP 8.2+. Available on WordPress.org since 2020. Top alternative: Post Views Counter.
5/52 reviews
100active installs
6.3K+total downloads
6 yearssince 2020
Overview
There are deffinitely different methods for implementing pageview counters. Considering some external service such as Jetpack or Google Analytics is surely a good option, but there may be scenarios where you may want to handle this just by yourself and have everything more under control.
Since it’s very common to utilize some caching mechanism to improve your site’s performance, implementing counter directly on PHP level wouldn’t work reliably as counter would be barely incremeneted due to the caching. Better solution would be to use WordPress way of triggering AJAX requests and increment pageview counters anytime page is loaded, no matter if served from cache or not.
When we start to think on bigger scale though, we find tradional WP AJAX implementation quite resources…
Ratings & Reviews
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Compatibility
| WordPress | 5.3+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | 8.2+ required |
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Changelog
4.0.0 – 24th November 2025
- Removal of Latte library – keeping things simple
- Bump minimum required PHP version to 8.2
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