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By Hector Cabrera Version 7.3.8 Updated 10 days ago
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Key Metrics

Active Installs

100K

Total Downloads

2K

Avg Rating

4.5/5.0

Support Resolution

100%

WP.org Rank

#283

Trends

Active Installs

100K

No change

Daily Downloads

1K/day avg

Trending up

Rankings & Growth

Install Health Score

5 signals from your last 30 days of install data

+10

out of ±100

Stable R² = 1.00

WP.org rounds install counts to tiers — no tier change detected yet. Only Recency reflects real data; the score will update once installs cross a tier boundary.

Pace
+0
Direction
+0
Weekly
+0
Recency
+64
Consistency
+0

Keyword Rankings

WP.org search positions for your plugin's tags

#KeywordPosition30d
1popular posts#1View
2rest api#16View
3faq#34View
4minify javascript#34View
5widgets#34View
6site statistics#37View
7paypal#40View

Rating Breakdown

4.5 / 5.0 (248 ratings)
5 stars
205
4 stars
11
3 stars
6
2 stars
5
1 star
21

Recent Reviews

Complete Design Flaw

xtrabytes · 1/11/2026

WordPress Popular Posts is fundamentally broken for cached sites. It defeats the entire purpose of Nginx/WP Rocket cachi…

Great plugin – great support

seegeist · 5/27/2025

I’ve only been using the plugin for a few days. At first I had a problem, thanks to the good and fast support I wa…

No css customization option

abre01 · 5/24/2025

Out of sheer frustration I would like to give only one star because the css style cannot be changed in the normal way. I…

Plugin incrível

D · 11/23/2024

A melhor e mais elegante maneira de exibir postagens populares em seu site. Simples e prático. Altamente recomendável.…

Works good with Elementor!

kspr · 10/26/2024

Used it through the REST API to set it up with Elementor Pro, worked like a charm, good job. ]]>

Compatibility

Tested up to WordPress

6.9.1

Requires PHP

7.4

Version Updates (12 mo)

0 updates

FAQ

Is WP Popular Posts still maintained?

Yes, WP Popular Posts was last updated 10 days ago and appears to be actively maintained.

How many active installs does WP Popular Posts have?

WP Popular Posts currently has 100K active installs on WordPress.org.

What is the support resolution rate for WP Popular Posts?

100% of support threads have been resolved for WP Popular Posts. It currently has 7 support threads with 7 resolved.

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