Top 10 plugins to display popular posts in wordpress blog.
We have discussed about best wordpress related post plugins in the previous post.Now let us discuss about the best Popular Posts plugins for wordpress. There are many popular plugins available to display the most popular posts in your blog page.There are multiple parameters to select the most popular posts in your blog. The number of hits received per page and the most number of comments etc.
If you are good at PHP then you can write your own function to find out most commented posts and display it wherever you want. But if you need to consider parameters such as the number of hits received by individual pages, it needs more complex functionality.
One of the best feature of Worpress platform is that there are very good collection of free plugins available.Most of them well written and tested. Let us list down few of the most popular Popular Posts wordpress plugins available.
Popular posts based on page views
1. WordPress Popular Posts
WordPress Popular Posts is one of the most popular Popular Posts plugin for wordpress.This is a highly customizable sidebar widget that displays the most popular posts on your blog.If you dont want to use it as a widget you can embed your most popular entries wherever you want on your theme using the wpp_get_mostpopular() template tag.
This plugin also supports shortcode. One of the best feature of WordPress Popular Posts is that it will wipe out from its cache automatically all those posts that have not been viewed more than 30 days from the current date. Also you can install multiple instances of WordPress Popular Posts on your sidebars, each with its own unique setting.
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2. Popular Posts
Popular Posts plugin displays a list of your blog’s most-viewed posts. This can be used as a widget as well as you can put at the place in your theme files where you want the list of popular posts to appear.
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3. Alex King’s Popularity Contest (AKPC) Widget
Popularity Contest (AKPC) plugin will help you see which of your posts are most popular. Views, comments, etc. are tracked and given configurable point values to determine popularity.
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4. Recently Popular
Recently Popular plugin displays the most popular posts based on history from now to X amount of time in the past.This plugin returns the number of views from the current time back to a user-requested time and does not require a stats package.It can show the most viewed posts from the past 4 days, or 7 hours, 3 months, etc..
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5. Popular This Week
Popular This Week is a plugin similar to Popularity Contest, but only records hits that happened in the last week. It is suitable for high volume, high traffic sites where posts age quite quickly.It shows the most popular posts or pages in the last week as widget.
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6. Top 10
Top 10 is another popular posts wordpress plugin.Top 10 will count the number of page views on your single posts on a daily as well as overall basis. You can then display the page view count on individual posts and pages as well as display a list of most popular posts based on page views.Works with caching plugins like WP-Super-Cache as well as supports post thumbnail images.
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7. PopPosts
PopPosts is another popular posts plugin. It is a simple plugin to count and display hits of post and pages. You can add a widget of popular post by view to your sidebar.
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8. Easy Popular Posts
Easy Popular Posts is another popular posts plugin. You can use this as widget as well as you can embed your most popular entries wherever you want on your theme using the wpp_get_mostpopular() template tag. This plugin also supports shortcode.
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9. WordPress.com Popular Posts
WordPress.com Popular Posts is another popular posts plugin for wordpress. If your theme supports widget you can use it as widget otherwise you can put the PHP code in your theme where ever you want popular posts to appear.
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Popular posts based on number of comments
1. Ranged Popular Posts
Ranged Popular Posts displays most popular posts for your WordPress blog based on the number of comments. The plugin allows to select posts interval also.
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2. Top Posts This Month
Top Posts This Month plugin simply gives you a widget that shows the top posts of the month by getting posts sorted by the numbers of comments made.
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Thanks for sharing. Should have added plugin screenshots 🙂
So what plugin u re using now.??