Mostify

Mostify is a fast, no-bloat popular-posts plugin that turns your WordPress views and comments into ranked lists you can drop anywhere via shortcode, widget, or Gutenberg block.

It uses a pre-aggregated bucket schema (one row per post per time bucket) so ranking queries stay snappy even on sites with millions of pageviews — no on-the-fly aggregation, no JOIN fan-out, no slow wp_postmeta scans.

Highlights

• Page-views counter — AJAX tracking with bot detection, per-visitor cookie deduplication, and a mostify_should_track_view filter for custom rules.
• Comments counter — counts approved comments (auto-approved + admin-approved transitions).
• Time-period rankings — today, yesterday, past_24_hours, this_week, last_week, past_7_days, this_month, last_month, past_30_days, this_year, last_year, past_12_months, all_time.
• Custom periods — build any window via custom_hours_N, custom_days_N, custom_months_N.
• 4 list styles — simple, bars, cards, medal (top-3 medal emoji).
• 10 color presets — ocean, sunset, forest, berry, fire, midnight, coral, arctic, earth, neon — plus theme inheritance and custom CSS.
• Display surfaces — shortcode [mostify], classic widget, server-rendered Gutenberg block, post-editor meta box, auto-insert into the_content.
• Admin chart — per-post hourly / daily / monthly histogram with period switcher.
• Performance — 3-tier cache (request memo + object cache + transient), optional batch-write buffer for high-traffic sites.
• Capabilities — role-based access via the mostify_edit and mostify_view capabilities.
• Privacy — no third-party tracking. View tracking happens entirely on your own server.

Privacy

Mostify stores anonymous, per-post view counts on your own database. No personal data, no IP addresses, and no third-party services are involved. The view-tracking AJAX endpoint sets a single first-party cookie (mostify_v_<post_id>, default 3-hour TTL) used solely for deduplication; cookie name and TTL are filterable. The plugin makes no outbound HTTP calls.