WP-PostViews
Enables you to display how many times a post/page had been viewed.
4.4(65 reviews)
·100K+ active installs·Updated 7 months agoAs of April 2026, WP-PostViews is a WordPress hits plugin with 100K+ active installations and a 4.4/5 rating from 65 reviews. It has been downloaded 3.4M+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.0+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2006. Downloads are down 10% this week. Top alternative: SRS Simple Hits Counter.
4.4/565 reviews
100K+active installs
3.4M+total downloads
20 yearssince 2006
Overview
Usage
- Open
wp-content/themes/<YOUR THEME NAME>/index.php - You may place it in archive.php, single.php, post.php or page.php also.
- Find:
<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?> - Add Anywhere Below It (The Place You Want The Views To Show):
<?php if(function_exists('the_views')) { the_views(); } ?> - Or you can use the shortcode
[views]or[views id="1"](where 1 is the post ID) in a post - Go to
WP-Admin -> Settings -> PostViewsto configure the plugin.
Development
https://github.com/lesterchan/wp-postviews/
Translations
http://dev.wp-plugins.org/browser/wp-postviews/i18n/
Credits
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Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
Useful plugin, but unique view counting by IP would be a great addition
by KR. Laboratories·5 months ago
I’ve been using WP-PostViews for some time now, and it’s a very straightforward and effective plugin for displaying post views. The settings to count views only from guests and exclude bots work well.
However, I’ve noticed that if a guest refreshes a page multiple times, each refresh is counted as a new view. While this is typical behavior for a basic hit counter, it makes the view count less representative of actual unique visitors.
I would highly recommend considering an enhancement to include an option to count unique views based on IP address (e.g., once per IP within a specified timeframe like 24 hours). This would significantly improve the accuracy of the statistics and make the plugin even more valuable for site owners who want to track genuine reader engagement.
Thank you for this plugin!
No longer works with Advanced Queries / Elementor
by whitelabelcroydon·1 year ago
Have been using this a while along side Advanced Queries and Elementors Loop widget to display a list grid of most popular articles on a website.
Doesnt seem to be working anymore. I think its still keeping count of the post views, but the views template variable isnt pulling in the correct posts. From the posts it is showing it looked like it stopped updating in January of this year.
Will need to find another solution!
It doesn’t work with 6.5.2 wordpres version
by sergio.pinna.prato·1 year ago
It doesn’t work with 6.5.2 wordpres version.
- This topic was modified 1 year, 11 months ago by sergio.pinna.prato.
I guess this is no longer in supported
by Beulahland83·3 years ago
The plugin is no longer compatible with some themes
example of (Corpo)
very useful
by douggeeks·4 years ago
Very useful little plugin.
Download Trends
Today: 201Yesterday: 289This week: 1KPeriod total: 122K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 4.0+ requiredTested up to 6.8.5 |
| PHP | false+ required |
Version Adoption
v1.78
47.1%
v1.77
26.7%
v1.76
18.2%
Other
7.9%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
Version 1.78
- NEW: Add %POST_THUMBNAIL_URL% to template variables
Version 1.77
- NEW: Use Vanilla JS. Props @JiveDig
- NEW: Bump to WordPress 6.2
- NEW: Support views under fields for Rest API. Props @vitro-mod
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