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.
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.
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.
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Works just as expected 🙂
Triggers the stat update from JS on the frontend so it works with cache.
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!!!
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.
Simple and elegant: does show the most popular posts, nicely in the theme styling.
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
| WordPress | 3.0+ requiredTested up to 4.9.29 |
| PHP | 5.2.4+ required |
wmp_get_popular was no longer working as it should for backwards compatibilityPlugin data sourced from WordPress.org. Analysis and metrics by PluginSift.