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WP PlugIndex currently records Popular Posts | inventivo version 1.0.1 as active, updated 1mo ago and tested up to WordPress 7.1.
Overview
About this plugin
WordPress has no built-in widget for popular posts. This plugin adds one.
The widget lists published posts ordered by the number of comments they received, so the posts your readers talked about most appear first. Each entry shows the featured image, the post title, the publication date and the comment count.
The widget can be placed in any widget area your theme provides, for example a sidebar or a footer.
What it does
Adds one widget called “inventivo: Popular Posts”.
Lets you set a title and the number of posts to show, between 1 and 20.
Orders posts by comment count, highest first.
Shows the featured image only when the post has one.
Loads its stylesheet only on pages where the widget is actually rendered.
What it does not do
No tracking of page views, and no visitor data is collected or stored.
No connection to any external service.
No settings page, no database tables, no scheduled tasks.
No JavaScript in the frontend.
Ordering
“Popular” here means “most commented”. The plugin deliberately does not count page views, because counting views requires either tracking visitors or an external service, and this plugin does neither.
WordPress.org metadata
Plugin tags
Topics listed for this plugin in the WordPress.org directory.
popular posts
comments
sidebar
widget
Compatibility & maintenance
Compatibility & maintenance
Tested with WP 7.1
Marked as tested with the current WordPress 7.1 release.
Current WordPress releaseWordPress 7.1
WordPress.org Tested up to7.1
Minimum requirementsWordPress 6.5 · PHP 7.4
Update activity14 Sept 20261mo ago
“Tested up to” is directory metadata supplied by the plugin author. WP PlugIndex does not turn an older declaration into a claim that the plugin is incompatible.
Changes recorded by WP PlugIndex
Recent tracked changes
Version1.0.0→1.0.1
Tracking & source
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