Provides a widget that shows the most popular posts in the last week.
As of April 2026, Popular This Week is a WordPress post plugin with 10 active installations and a 0/5 rating0. It has been downloaded 4.8K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 2.7+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2009. Last updated 16 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Post Type Switcher.
Popular This Week is a plugin similar to Popularity Contest, but only records hits that happened in the last week. It then shows the most popular posts or pages in the last week as widget you can use in your theme.
It’s useful for high volume, high traffic sites where posts age quite quickly, and you do not necessarily want to direct your users to old content, but what people are reading right now. An example of the widget being used is here: http://www.nouse.co.uk/
| WordPress | 2.7+ requiredTested up to 2.7.1 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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