WP-PostViews

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1. ★★★★★ KR. Laboratories

   10mo ago

   I’ve been using WP-PostViews for some time now, and it’s a very straightforward and effective plugin for displaying post views. The settings to count views only from guests and exclude bots work well. However, I’ve noticed that if a guest refreshes a page multiple times, each refresh is counted as a new view. While this is typical behavior for a basic hit counter, it makes the view count less representative of actual unique visitors. I would highly recommend considering an enhancement to include an option to count unique views based on IP address (e.g., once per IP within a specified timeframe like 24 hours). This would significantly improve the accuracy of the statistics and make the plugin even more valuable for site owners who want to track genuine reader engagement. Thank you for this plugin!

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2. ★★★★★ whitelabelcroydon

   2.3y ago

   Have been using this a while along side Advanced Queries and Elementors Loop widget to display a list grid of most popular articles on a website. Doesnt seem to be working anymore. I think its still keeping count of the post views, but the views template variable isnt pulling in the correct posts. From the posts it is showing it looked like it stopped updating in January of this year. Will need to find another solution!

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3. ★★★★★ sergio.pinna.prato

   2.3y ago

   It doesn’t work with 6.5.2 wordpres version. This topic was modified 2 years, 3 months ago by sergio.pinna.prato.

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4. ★★★★★ Beulahland83

   3.6y ago

   The plugin is no longer compatible with some themes example of (Corpo)

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5. ★★★★★ douggeeks

   4.4y ago

   Very useful little plugin.

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6. ★★★★★ Ahmed Faruk

   4.7y ago

   This is the Plugin that I was looking for. Thanks a lot!

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7. ★★★★★ eddy0522

   5.1y ago

   Very nice plugin, but I still have an advice that the view counter data should be saved in a new table. Now it was saved in “wp_postmeta”. Maybe it can be improved. Never mind, just my idea. Thanks!

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8. ★★★★★ wissdomm

   5.4y ago

   I accidentally delete this plugin from my web, and now all the views are reset to 0, can you help me how to restore the previous views ? Thankyou so much if you can help me please..

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Recent releases and news for this plugin

1. — Version 1.78 NEW: Add %POST_THUMBNAIL_URL% to template variables 1.78
2. — Version 1.77 NEW: Use Vanilla JS. Props @JiveDig NEW: Bump to WordPress 6.2 NEW: Support views under fields for Rest API. Props @vitro-mod 1.77
3. — Version 1.78.1 NEW: WordPress 7.0 1.78.1
4. — Version 2.0.0 FIXED: The two templates are echoed as markup on the strength of being wp_kses_post() ‘d when saved — and that was true only of the settings screen. The 2.0.0 migration writes through a different door, and the row it fol 2.0.0
5. — Version 2.0.1 NEW: A Settings link on the plugin’s row on the Plugins screen FIXED: “Count Views From” was only honoured while the page rendered. On a cached site the counting happens through a separate AJAX or REST call instead, and 2.0.1

1 disclosed vulnerability on record for this plugin, fixed in the current version. Sites on older versions stay exposed until they update.

1. High · 8.8 WP-PostViews < 1.63 - Cross-Site Request Forgery ↗
   2013-05-08 CVE-2013-3252 Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) Affects < 1.63 Patched in 1.63

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 6.8.2

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Competes with

The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach, closest match first. The letter on the right is each plugin's health grade (A best, F worst).

• W WP-PostViews Plus widget 20+ installs · 3.6★ · 4 shared tags D
• Post Views Counter 200K+ installs · 4.9★ · 3 shared tags A
• Light Views Counter – Fast, Scalable View Counter for High-Traffic Sites 3K+ installs · 3.6★ · 3 shared tags B
• Real-Time Post Statistics for WordPress 1K+ installs · 4.1★ · 3 shared tags A
• Pageviews 1K+ installs · 4.2★ · 3 shared tags D
• Post Views Stats Counter 600+ installs · 3.9★ · 3 shared tags D

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WP-PostViews: 100K+ active installs, 4.4★ (65 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-25. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/wp-postviews