Count visitor views for your posts [ALSO, READ OUR RECOMMENDATION].
As of April 2026, Simple Post Views Count is a WordPress hits plugin with 600 active installations and a 4/5 rating from 4 reviews. It has been downloaded 37K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.4+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2015. Last updated 4 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: WP-PostViews.
Now, we are finally convinced that GOOGLE ANALYTICS stats and tracking systems are uncomparably superior (which also comes as other plugins, i.e. we like Google Analytics [by MonsterInsights]) over useless “POST-VIEWS” plugins, because these drawbacks:
– There are tons of bots, crawlers, search or aggregation engines, that view your websites and pages daily, and “view your posts”. That ends up in fake/boosted “Post views” dramatically.
Beside bots, many people just …:
– people open the pages in the background and close them without reading at all
– open the pages, but close while site is still loading
– open the pages, but close quickly, under 1-2 seconds, without reading your pages..
– and many oth…
| WordPress | 4.4+ requiredTested up to 5.3.21 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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