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Most Popular Post Widget

by quazisazzad · Uncategorized

Also makes 4 other plugins · 340+ installs across the portfolio →

Shwon your most popular/viewed post with view count

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
45 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 74/100
Support 70/100

45 health vs 56 average across 16,376 Uncategorized plugins

Removal-risk signals

53/100

Maintenance and integrity signals that tend to precede a WordPress.org removal. Not an official status, a heads-up to act.

  • Long abandoned. No update in 5+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Falling behind WordPress. Tested up to WordPress 5.5.20.

Directory ranking optimization

How it's scored →

How well this listing is tuned to rank in WordPress.org search, on the factors an owner controls. Not popularity, optimization.

34 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 2/100
WP compatibility 22/100
Rating quality 53/100
Listing tuning 68/100

To rank higher: Last updated 2123 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.

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Daily downloads

Since 2024-08-29 · 730 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+67% vs prior 30d
3Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

107

now · peak 107

10730d downloads · Aug 29

Directory rank

wp.org popularity rank over time · lower is better

10KRank · Aug 5

Rating trend

Star average over time · dips mark rough releases

4.3Stars · Aug 26

Update activity

How busy the existing users are, measured as downloads in the last 30 days for every 1,000 active sites. A spike means a new release everyone's pulling; a long, slow decline means an aging user base that updates less.

357per 1k installs · Aug 29

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 92% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v2.3 92%
Older / other versions 8%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “300+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

modeled estimate
300–400 ≈350

Modeled within the band wp.org reports; tightens as we track daily.

Install history · since 2020-06-19 · 12 observations

300Installs · Aug 26

Estimated value

What this plugin might earn a year, and what it might sell for. Modeled from public signals; we don't see anyone's books.

Est. annual revenue

N/A

Est. acquisition value

N/A

No paid tier is visible, so we don't put a figure on revenue or sale value: that would be guessing. The install base is a real asset to an acquirer, just not one public data lets us price. A small install base leaves thin data to model from.

Details

Version
2.3
Last updated
5.8y ago
Added
2016-10-07 · 9 yrs old
Requires WP
3.0.1
Tested up to
5.5.20
Requires PHP

Recent reviews

All reviews on wp.org ↗
  1. chrisbrandon
    5.4y ago

    Plugin is easy to use, and it looks nice. But it doesn’t let you choose the date range, so you really have no idea what most popular means… this year? This month? This week?

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  2. smartsoftcode
    7.1y ago

    Most popular post is a nice plugin. here i see how many post see people and i can displaying view count number . that’s good

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  3. smsoft
    8.0y ago

    This is an excellent plugin to count post view and display the popular post

    Read on wp.org ↗

Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.5

Low memory footprint
Low page-speed impact
Runs on latest PHP + WP
No PHP errors
No JS errors
Activates cleanly
No resource errors
No external HTTP errors
Optimized database use
Frequently updated

Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

  1. 2026-08-29 400+ → 300+ down

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Most Popular Post Widget: 300+ active installs, 4.3★ (3 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-29. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/most-popular-post