WP Popular Posts for WordPress Plugin Directory
WP Popular Posts is a WordPress app, with a 4.5 average rating from 249 reviews, as of July 9, 2026.
WP Popular Posts is a WordPress Plugin Directory app by Hector Cabrera. With a rating of 4.5★ from 249 reviews.
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WP Popular Posts is a highly rated WordPress app with a growing review traction. It is listed in the Posts category on WordPress Plugin Directory, which AppRanks treats as the canonical taxonomy node for ranking and competitor comparison. 249 reviews put it in the early-traction tier — useful for early-stage stores willing to be on the leading edge. Early-traction review counts are sensitive to single launch periods or feature events, so a 30-day re-check before bigger commitments often resolves whether the trend is sustained. Paid-only pricing means evaluating fit on the marketplace listing or via the developer's documentation before installing. AppRanks tracks rating, review count, pricing tier, and category position daily — the figures on this page reflect the most recent scrape from the canonical WordPress Plugin Directory listing.
Pros
- +High average rating (4.5★) signals consistent merchant satisfaction
- +Published by Hector Cabrera — established developer track record
Cons
- −Sparse visual evidence (0 screenshots) — harder to evaluate the UX before installing
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How WP Popular Posts works
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WP Popular Posts is a highly customizable plugin that displays your most popular posts.
PSA: Plugin has been renamed as WP Popular Posts! See the announcement for more details.
Main Features
Multiple Popular Posts Lists – You can have several Popular Posts lists on your blog, each with its own settings!
Time Range – List those posts of your blog that have been the most popular ones within a specific time range (eg. last 24 hours, last 7 days, last 30 days, etc)!
Custom Post-type support – Want to show other stuff than just posts and pages, eg. Popular Products? You can!
Thumbnails! – Display a thumbnail of your posts! (see the FAQ section for more details.)
Statistics dashboard – See how your popular posts are doing directly from your admin area.
Sorting options – Order your popular list by comments, views (default) or average views per day!
Custom themes – Out of the box, WP Popular Posts includes some themes so you can style your popular posts list (see Widget Themes for more details).
Use your own layout! – WPP is flexible enough to let you customize the look and feel of your popular posts! (see customizing WPP’s HTML markup and How to style WP Popular Posts for more.)
Performance Tools! – WP Popular Posts includes a few options to make sure your site’s performance stays as good as ever! (see Performance for more details.)
REST API support – Embed your popular posts in your (web) app! (see REST API Endpoints for more.)
Elementor support – Are you building sites with Elementor? There’s a popular posts widget for it too!
Disqus support – Sort your popular posts by Disqus comments count!
Polylang & WPML 3.2+ support – Show the translated version of your popular posts!
WordPress Multisite support – Each site on the network can have its own popular posts list!
Other Features
Shortcode support – Use the [wpp] shortcode to showcase your most popular posts on pages, too! For usage and instructions, please refer to the Installation section.
Template tags – Don’t feel like using blocks? No problem! You can still embed your most popular entries on your theme using the wpp_get_mostpopular() template tag. Additionally, the wpp_get_views() template tag allows you to retrieve the views count for a particular post. For usage and instructions, please refer to the Installation section.
Localization – Translate WPP into your own language.
WP-PostRatings support – Show your visitors how your readers are rating your posts!
PSA: The classic WP Popular Posts widget has reached End-of-Life The classic WP Popular Posts widget doesn’t work very well / at all with the block-based Widgets editor introduced with WordPress 5.8.
This new Widgets editor expects WordPress blocks instead of regular WordPress widgets. If you’re using the classic WP Popular Posts widget please replace it with the WP Popular Posts block instead – it has the same features and functionality as the “classic” widget so you won’t be missing anything at all. See the Migration Guide for more details.
Bjorn from wplearninglab.com was kind enough to create a video explaining how to use the new block for all of you visual learners:
If you cannot (or do not want to) use WordPress blocks on your website then please replace your classic widget with the [wpp] shortcode.
Support the Project! If you’d like to support my work and efforts to creating and maintaining more open source projects your donations and messages of support mean a lot!
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WP Popular Posts is now also on GitHub!
Looking for a Recent Posts widget just as featured-packed as WP Popular Posts? Try Recently!
Credits
Flame graphic by freevector/Vecteezy.com.
Category rankings
As of Jul 9, 2026- Popular#0of 3Top 1%
- Popularity#0of 2Top 1%
- Posts#0of 189Top 1%
- Top#0of 4Top 1%
- Widget#6of 701Top 1%
- _browse_popular#321of 508Top 64%
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Keyword rankings
WP Popular Posts ranks for 1 keywords across WordPress Plugin Directory. Here are the top 1:
- 1.faqRank #66
Competitors & alternatives
WP Popular Postsdoesn't have curated competitor matchups yet. Other tracked posts apps on WordPress:
Where WP Popular Posts stands in the Posts category
WP Popular Posts ranks #0 of 189 apps in the Posts category, placing it in the top 1% of the listing.
Frequently asked questions
What is WP Popular Posts?
WP Popular Posts is an app for WordPress. It currently holds a 4.5-star rating from 249 merchant reviews, and AppRanks has been tracking its public marketplace data on a daily refresh cycle. It is listed under the Posts category on AppRanks, where you can see its current category position, review-velocity trend, and how it compares against the top alternatives in the same space. Developed by Hector Cabrera.