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WP PlugIndex currently records Simple Post View Counter – Clean and Fast Post View Analytics version 1.0.1 as active, updated 1mo ago and tested up to WordPress 7.1.
Overview
About this plugin
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
[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.
WordPress.org metadata
Plugin tags
Topics listed for this plugin in the WordPress.org directory.
most viewed posts
popular posts
post counter
post views
view counter
Compatibility & maintenance
Compatibility & maintenance
Tested with WP 7.1
Marked as tested with the current WordPress 7.1 release.
Current WordPress releaseWordPress 7.1
WordPress.org Tested up to7.1
Minimum requirementsWordPress 6.7 · PHP not listed
Update activity4 Sept 20261mo ago
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Changes recorded by WP PlugIndex
Recent tracked changes
WordPress compatibility6.8.8→7.1
Tracking & source
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