Simple Post View Counter – Clean and Fast Post View Analytics

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

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.