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A small collection of lightweight WordPress blocks that can accomplish nearly anything.
- Installs
- 200,000+
- Rating
- 4.9 (122)
- Updated
- 18 days ago
WP Popular Posts
A highly customizable, easy-to-use popular posts plugin!
- Active installs
- 100,000+
- #334 of 1,000
- Downloads, all time
- 8.9M
- 8,938,478
- Downloads, 30 days
- 41.1K
- 8.5K in the last 7
- Rating
- 4.5 / 5
- 249 reviews
- Last updated
- 34 days ago
- Sep 27, 2026
- Version
- 7.4.3
- 94 releases
Upkeep and compatibility
| Last updated | September 27, 2026Updated in the last 3 months |
|---|---|
| Tested up to | WordPress 7.1.4Covers WordPress 7.1.4, the current release |
| Needs WordPress | 6.2 or newer |
| Needs PHP | 7.4 or newer |
| First published | November 20, 2008 |
| Support, last two months | 3 of 5 threads resolved (60%) |
Reviews
4.5 / 5 from 249 reviews
| 5 stars | 206 |
|---|---|
| 4 stars | 11 |
| 3 stars | 6 |
| 2 stars | 5 |
| 1 star | 21 |
Downloads, last 30 days
What the author says it does
WP Popular Posts is a highly customizable plugin that displays your most popular posts.
PSA: Plugin has been renamed as WP Popular Posts!
See the announcement for more details.
Main Features
- Multiple Popular Posts Lists – You can have several Popular Posts lists on your blog, each with its own settings!
- Time Range – List those posts of your blog that have been the most popular ones within a specific time range (eg. last 24 hours, last 7 days, last 30 days, etc)!
- Custom Post-type support – Want to show other stuff than just posts and pages, eg. Popular Products? You can!
- Thumbnails! – Display a thumbnail of your posts! (see the FAQ section for more details.)
- Statistics dashboard – See how your popular posts are doing directly from your admin area.
- Sorting options – Order your popular list by comments, views (default) or average views per day!
- Custom themes – Out of the box, WP Popular Posts includes some themes so you can style your popular posts list (see Widget Themes for more details).
- Use your own layout! – WPP is flexible enough to let you customize the look and feel of your popular posts! (see customizing WPP’s HTML markup and How to style WP Popular Posts for more.)
- Performance Tools! – WP Popular Posts includes a few options to make sure your site’s performance stays as good as ever! (see Performance for more details.)
The opening of the plugin's own description. The full text, installation notes and changelog are on its WordPress.org page.
Latest changelog entry
- Fixes a build issue affecting version 7.4.2.
- Improved REST API endpoints validation rules (props to the Wordfence team!)
- PHPCS / WPCS improvements.
Release notes
Screenshots
The WP Popular Posts block. 
The WP Popular Posts block on theme's sidebar. 
The WP Popular Posts widget for Elementor. 
Dashboard widget.
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Where this page's numbers come from
Read from the WordPress.org plugin API on , when WordPress 7.1.4 was the current release. WordPress.org rounds active installs into buckets. These are the directory's figures, not my verdict, and I haven't tested this plugin. The author takes donations at their donate page.