WebberZone Top 10 — Popular Posts

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

Directory searches this plugin turns up in, and which way each one is moving. WordPress.org publishes no history of search positions, so this starts the day we first tracked a keyword and never backfills.

wp.org is where the directory puts the plugin for that search. On merit is where it would sit if results were ranked on rating, support and updates, without the install boost. The last column is how far the wp.org position moved, from our first reading in the last 90 days to the latest.

280 searches this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days, 20 listed. 235 left out as unrelated or noise (years, numbers, stray words).

Directory rank vs rivals

wp.org popularity rank over time · higher is better · when a rival's line climbs above yours, they've overtaken you

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

Crossed into this band 7 months ago and the previous band took 3 years to cross, so the real count is still just under 20K.

1. ★★★★★ Pedro Martínez

   8mo ago

   Top 10 es, según mi experiencia, el mejor contador de visitas que hay en la actualidad para un blog de WordPress

   Read on wp.org ↗
2. ★★★★★ sunnyhova

   1.9y ago

   Was using WordPress Popular Posts to see pages getting visits on my website until it stopped working. Had to look for alternatives and found this. Installed it but it still didn’t work. I had to remove it and lo and behold, an email from the developer! Couldn’t believe it because I haven’t seen that before. To cut a long story short, he helped me to resolve the problem and the plugin works like a charm! I definitely recommend. 5 stars.

   Read on wp.org ↗
3. ★★★★★ adhitasya

   2.0y ago

   large different views count, at Top 10 just 5 views, on jetpack 120 views at Top 10 7K views, on jetpack 10K views tell me why? This topic was modified 1 year, 8 months ago by adhitasya.

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4. ★★★★★ Pierre236

   2.4y ago

   Since the widgets in my Soledad theme (pencidesign) don’t allow you to choose post types (well, they do, but as always, it doesn’t work), I installed the Popular Post plugin. The plugin works perfectly and looks good, but it says it’s out of date and needs changing. So I installed this plugin, with lots of useless options and inconsistent settings between the widget and the admin configuration. But the display is ugly, the photos don’t adapt automatically and perfectly, like Popular Post, and like the old plugins, before the arrival of tablet and mobile, it asks you to set sizes for the photos. But what size to set? There’s no option for desktop, tablet or mobile! Good programmers have images that adapt to the device! I thought I’d have to buy the pro version for the display to be correct, but after registering on the site, there’s nothing. So it’s a shame to see WordPress going downhill, evolving in the wrong direction and good plugins disappearing.

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5. ★★★★★ vipo

   2.6y ago

   I was forced to replace WordPress Popular Posts (plugin is banned from Kinsta Hosting) and was happy to find Top-10. Does a nice job, but not yet as versatile as WPP. Already has a lot of extension points (hooks), which i’ll further investigate (e.g. showing category names after title/excerpt). Developer seems responsive and very supportive, which is nice!

   Read on wp.org ↗
6. ★★★★★ idlogs

   3.2y ago

   Use this plugin since 2018 for all my sites, easy to install and configure. Just one time issue with my new site, but it’s solved. Nice plugin, awesome features and plus great support! Big Thank You!

   Read on wp.org ↗
7. ★★★★★ ianhparker

   4.1y ago

   Using WordPress, I created a reusable block and add the most popular posts over the last 24 hours to the end of every news story (it’s a news site). Since adding that feature, my page views and time on site have nearly doubled, it helps to present my readers with other posts that are relevant at the time. Even if someone finds a news article that is a few years old through a web search, at the end of the article it will display the most current trending stories to encourage people to keep reading. Works great. I recommend.

   Read on wp.org ↗
8. ★★★★★ avecesveoviajes

   4.4y ago

   Good plugin, good technical support. Congratulations to the author/authors. Cheers!

   Read on wp.org ↗

Recent releases and news for this plugin

1. — Version 4.4.0 Release Date – 22 July 2026 Features: New “Features” tab under Settings: turn off plugin features that you do not use and their code will not be loaded at all. You can toggle the Popular Posts and Post Count blocks, popu 4.4.0
2. — Version 4.3.2 Release Date – 8 July 2026 Improvements: Dynamic post counts now load more reliably and are faster in modern browsers. Enhanced time range labeling: Interface now dynamically shows “Daily” for 1-day periods or “Custom (N 4.3.2
3. — Version 4.3.1 Release Date – 6 June 2026 Improvements: Aggregation cron now runs every 2 minutes instead of 5 minutes for faster count updates. Sync Funnel now shows distinct error messages for an empty funnel, a lock conflict, and da 4.3.1
4. — Version 4.3.0 Release Date – 28 May 2026 Release announcement New: Buffered visit tracking: page views are queued in a funnel table and aggregated every 5 minutes, reducing write contention on busy sites. [Pro] RSS/Atom feed views are 4.3.0
5. — Version 4.2.3 Security: Hardened Settings API and metabox output escaping. Improvements: Updated Freemius SDK to version 2.13.1. Updated Settings API assets and Tom Select handling. Refreshed translations and generated assets. Fixes: 4.2.3
6. — Version 4.2.2 Modifications: Taxonomy Suggest script removed from Settings API. Metabox also uses Tom Select for the lookup of the category field in CRP Pro. Fixes: CSS improvements for left-thumbs and grid-thumbs styles. 4.2.2

All 11 disclosed vulnerabilities are patched in the current version (4.6.0). Sites still on an older version should update.

1. Patched Medium · 6.4 WebberZone Top 10 <= 4.5.2 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'other_attributes' Block Attribute ↗
   2026-10-15 CVE-2026-110290 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation Affects <= 4.5.2 Patched in 4.5.3
2. Patched Medium · 6.4 Top 10 <= 4.1.0 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting ↗
   2025-05-07 CVE-2025-47509 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation Affects <= 4.1.0 Patched in 4.1.1
3. Patched Medium · 4.3 Top 10 <= 3.3.2 - Cross-Site Request Forgery via edit_count_ajax ↗
   2023-11-03 CVE-2023-47238 Cross-Site Request Forgery Affects <= 3.3.2 Patched in 3.3.3
4. Patched Medium · 4.3 Top 10 – Popular posts plugin for WordPress <= 3.2.4 - Missing Authorization on tptn_chart_data ↗
   2023-02-22 Missing Authorization Affects <= 3.2.4 Patched in 3.2.5
5. Patched Medium · 4.4 Top 10 – Popular posts plugin - <= 3.2.4 - Authenticated(Admin+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting ↗
   2023-02-22 CVE-2023-26008 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation Affects <= 3.2.4 Patched in 3.2.5
6. Patched Medium · 4.3 Top 10 – Popular posts plugin for WordPress <= 3.2.3 - Missing Authorization on tptn_ajax_clearcache ↗
   2023-02-20 CVE-2023-25993 Missing Authorization Affects <= 3.2.3 Patched in 3.2.4
7. Patched Medium · 4.3 Top 10 – Popular posts plugin for WordPress <= 3.2.3 - Cross-Site Request Forgery via tptn_ajax_clearcache ↗
   2023-02-20 Cross-Site Request Forgery Affects <= 3.2.3 Patched in 3.2.4
8. Patched Medium · 6.4 Top 10 – Popular posts plugin for WordPress <= 3.2.2 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Blocks ↗
   2022-12-29 CVE-2022-4570 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation Affects <= 3.2.2 Patched in 3.2.3
9. Patched Medium · 4.3 Top 10 <= 2.9.4 - Cross-Site Request Forgery Bypass ↗
   2020-09-16 CVE-2020-36761 Cross-Site Request Forgery Affects < 2.9.5 Patched in 2.9.5
10. Patched High · 7.4 Top 10 – Popular posts plugin for WordPress <= 2.4.3 - SQL Injection ↗
    2017-12-13 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command Affects < 2.4.4 Patched in 2.4.4
11. Patched Medium · 6.1 Top 10 – Popular posts plugin for WordPress < 2.3.1 - Cross-Site Scripting ↗
    2016-07-15 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation Affects < 2.3.1 Patched in 2.3.1

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 7.0.1

Translated into 51 languages, 1 at 90% or more

Plus 27 more locales with partial translations.

Whether ChatGPT and Claude name this plugin when asked the category question, and whether the readme gives them something to quote.

Not measured yet for this plugin’s topics. Its tracked searches are not among the measured topics. See the topics measured so far.

Growth timeline

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

1. 2026-03-29 20K+ → 10K+ down after 1108 days in tier
2. 2023-03-17 30K+ → 20K+ down after 2 days in tier
3. 2023-03-15 20K+ → 30K+ up after 5 days in tier
4. 2023-03-10 30K+ → 20K+ down after 1741 days in tier
5. 2018-06-03 40K+ → 30K+ down after 94 days in tier
6. 2018-03-01 30K+ → 40K+ up after 28 days in tier
7. 2018-02-01 40K+ → 30K+ down after 64 days in tier
8. 2017-11-29 30K+ → 40K+ up

Competes with

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