Popularly Documentation

Overview

Count post views without slowing your site and show your most read posts anywhere, with thumbnails.

• Most read posts
• Cache friendly counter
• Views column

Best for: Blogs and content sites

Installation

1. Download popularly-popular-posts.zip from My account › My plugins or from your order email. Do not unzip it.
2. In WordPress, go to Plugins › Add New Plugin › Upload Plugin, choose the zip and click Install Now, then Activate.

Requires WordPress 6.0+, PHP 7.4+. Works with any theme, block themes and page builders.

Features

• View counter that works with page caching
• Bots, editors and reloads ignored
• Most read list with thumbnails and view counts
• All time or the last 7 to 30 days
• Anywhere with [popularly]
• Sortable Views column in Posts
• Choose the content types counted

Shortcodes

Paste a shortcode in any page, post, widget or page builder text block.

• [popularly]
• [popularly_preview]

Options of each shortcode are described in the Features above and in the plugin settings page.

For developers

Customize the plugin from your theme’s functions.php or a small plugin, without editing its files (your changes survive updates).

Filters

• popularly_active
• popularly_sanitize

add_filter( 'popularly_active', function ( $value ) {
	// Change $value here.
	return $value;
}, 10, 1 );

Actions

• popularly_admin_after_form
• popularly_admin_before_form
• popularly_admin_form_end

Updates

Updates are free. When a new version is out, it appears in Dashboard › Updates of your WordPress site and you can install it in one click, or turn on automatic updates in Plugins. This works for the zip downloaded from your Woo-Plugins account; older copies can be replaced by downloading the latest version from My plugins. See the changelog.

Frequently asked questions