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WP Most Popular

WP Most Popular is a simple plugin which tracks your most popular blog posts based on views and lets you display them in your theme or blog sidebar.

By MattGeri·Popular·Free
4.9(11 reviews)
·2.0K+ active installs·Updated 7 years ago
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As of April 2026, WP Most Popular is a WordPress popular plugin with 2.0K+ active installations and a 4.9/5 rating from 11 reviews. It has been downloaded 81K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.0+ and PHP 5.2.4+. Available on WordPress.org since 2012. Last updated 7 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Downloads are up 20% this week. Top alternative: WP Popular Posts.

4.9/511 reviews
2.0K+active installs
81K+total downloads
14 yearssince 2012

Overview

WP Most Popular was born out of frustration in finding a decent plugin which performs one simple task and that is to rank your most popular blog posts.

The plugin keeps a log of your most popular posts based on views and lets you display them in your blog theme with custom styling. You can display popular posts from the last day, 7 days, 30 days or all time.

It also comes with a sidebar widget to let you display your popular posts on your blogs sidebar.

If you are a developer and integrate the plugin in to a theme, you will get a lot more flexibility out of the plugin including the ability to show the most popular custom post types etc.

This plugin was built and is maintained by WP Geeks. For extra documentation, videos, snippets and support, visit the WP Most Popular product page.

Usage

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Read full description on WordPress.org

Ratings & Reviews

4.911 reviews
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Recent Reviews

Great plugin
by jensnilsson·6 years ago

Works just as expected 🙂
Triggers the stat update from JS on the frontend so it works with cache.

  • This topic was modified 6 years, 9 months ago by jensnilsson.
  • This topic was modified 6 years, 9 months ago by jensnilsson.
504 request
by azhar92·9 years ago

Hello Support,

I hope you are doing well !!!

I have installed this Wp most popular plugin in my website, my website is on wp-engine server. so server person giving max hitting creating under this plugin code. so please check this plugin code. i have some response from wp-engine support so please guide me how to resolve this issue.

ack-grep “wmp_update” plugins/ themes/

plugins/wp-most-popular/wp-most-popular.php

52: echo ‘<!– WordPress Most Popular –><script type=”text/javascript”>/* <![CDATA[ */ jQuery.post(“‘ . admin_url(‘admin-ajax.php’) . ‘”, { action: “wmp_update”, id: ‘ . $wp_query->post->ID . ‘, token: “‘ . $token . ‘” }); /* ]]> */</script><!– /WordPress Most Popular –>’;

65: add_action( ‘wp_ajax_wmp_update’, ‘WMP_system::actions’ );

67: add_action( ‘wp_ajax_nopriv_wmp_update’, ‘WMP_system::actions’ )

I am waiting your response!!!

Simple and versatile
by RustyH·10 years ago·2 replies

Great plugin, can be called with a function to show popular posts anywhere.
I was able to create a category for popular posts and then call the plugin function when that category was viewed.

However, only giving it 4 stars as I’ve realised that when the plugin is deactivated, all the database info is deleted, the whole table for this plugin is gone!
This should only happen when the plugin is deleted, not deactivated.. Deactivation should be viewed as a temporary thing, possibly while testing another plugin, it shouldn’t remove all the data!

If this is fixed it would be worthy of 5 stars.

Thanks.

Good and simple
by webteam·10 years ago

Simple and elegant: does show the most popular posts, nicely in the theme styling.

Nice idea
by Rik0399·10 years ago

Like this plugin, simple, effective.

I would also would have liked to place a shortcode (not filecode) onto a page which would allow to show op/popular listings for each category.

I’ll favourite this for now until such is added.

Thank you

Download Trends

Today: 10Yesterday: 9This week: 54Period total: 2K

Compatibility

WordPress3.0+ requiredTested up to 4.9.29
PHP5.2.4+ required

Version Adoption

v0.3
95.4%
v0.2
4.6%

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Frequently Asked Questions

Changelog

0.3.1

  • Fixed a bug where the old function wmp_get_popular was no longer working as it should for backwards compatibility
View full changelog on WordPress.org

Contributors

MattGeriMattGeriWP GeeksWP Geeks
Plugin Info
Version
0.3.1
Last Updated
Aug 7, 2018
WP Requires
3.0+
Tested Up To
4.9.29
PHP Requires
5.2.4+
Active Installs
2.0K+
Downloads
81K+
Added
Jan 24, 2012
Business
Free

Tags

popularmost-viewedpopular postsmost viewed postspopular posts widget

Developer

M
MattGeri
2 plugins0.0M+ total installs
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