“Most And Least Read Posts Widget” is a free plugin for WordPress. developed by Giuliano Polverari (WhileTrue.it) to generate lists of the most and least read posts.
The following options are customizable:
The plugin starts counting hits once activated, storing them in the “custom_total_hits” custom field without the need of external accounts.
The most popular web crawlers (e.g. Googlebot) are recognized and their hits discarded; also Admin hits are discarded.
Archived post hits are shown in a column inside the backend post list.
The plugin is compatible with multi-language WPML plugin, showing most/least read posts for current language.
Optionally, the number of hits can be shown inside the post content, with:
If you want to show the post hits anywhere inside the template loop, you can the PHP function provided, e.g.:
echo most_and_least_read_posts_get_hits(get_the_ID());
Also, [most_read_posts] a shortcode is available. Use it like this:
[most_read_posts type="most" posts_number="5" show_thumbs="false" date_from="2016-01-01" date_to="2016-04-30"]
Shortcode attributes:
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