Set Category with Popular Posts (Based in Google Analytics Real Time)
As of April 2026, Popular Post Real Time is a WordPress posts plugin with 10 active installations and a 1/5 rating from 1 reviews. It has been downloaded 1.2K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.4+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2016. Last updated 9 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: WP Shortcodes Plugin — Shortcodes….
Get popular posts from Google Analytics Real Time and set every 10 minutes a new category called “Popular RT” with a number (By default 10 Posts) of popular post that you want and the number of active users in every post in this category, ready for you display your blog´s trendy post in every place of your WordPress.
Query Example using the category and the number of views for sorting.
<?php $args = array( 'posts_per_page' => 5, 'offset' => 0, 'category_name' => 'popular_real_time_cat', 'meta_key' => 'active_users', 'orderby' => 'meta_value_num', 'order' => 'DESC'); $queryWP = new WP_Query(); ?>
| WordPress | 3.4+ requiredTested up to 3.4.2 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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