Simple Post View Counter – Clean and Fast Post View Analytics
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Lightweight post view counter with a widget and shortcodes. Track post views automatically, stop double-counting, and display popular content easily.
Simple Post View Counter is a lightweight yet powerful plugin to track how many times your WordPress posts are viewed.
Key Features
- ✅ Automatic post view tracking (AJAX-based, works even in incognito mode)
- ✅ Prevents double-counting on refresh
- ✅ Built-in bot detection
- ✅ Display views before content, after content, beside meta, or manually
- ✅ “Most Viewed Posts” widget with customizable display
- ✅ Shortcodes for displaying most viewed posts and individual post views
- ✅ Admin settings page with statistics (total views, average views, top posts, etc.)
- ✅ Views column in admin post list (sortable by views)
- ✅ Exclude admin views from tracking
- ✅ Works with caching plugins
Shortcodes
[post_views]→ Display view count for current post Options:post_id,format="%s views"[most_viewed_posts]→ Display a list of most viewed posts Options:limit="5",show_count="yes",show_excerpt="no"
Example Usage
[most_viewed_posts]→ Show top 5 posts[most_viewed_posts limit="10" show_count="yes"]→ Show 10 posts with view counts[post_views]→ Show current post’s view count
Widgets
Go to Appearance → Widgets and add the Most Viewed Posts widget to your sidebar.
Video Tutorial
Theme Function
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Credits
Developed by Sadhan Pal
License
This plugin is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.