Cómo mostrar entradas populares por visitas en WordPress (2 maneras)

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1. mohadese esmaeeli

   The display of popular posts is beneficial as it helps increase website traffic statistics. However, on the other hand, competitors can easily identify which posts and topics have been popular on your site. One of the sections I always explore for competitor analysis and finding trending topics is the “most popular articles” section on various websites.

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   • WPBeginner Support

     While that can be something to keep in mind, we normally find it best to add what is most important to your visitors instead of being concerned that your competitors will follow your content.

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   • Mrteesurez

     Yes, competitors can use it to analytics ones website but you can just display it like WPbeginner, without adding the views count/counter.
     But mind you, visitors can use Semrush, Google, Similarweb and some other ways to analyze your site. You own is just to know how you are playing your games.
     Thanks for the insight.

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2. Moinuddin Waheed

   Popular posts and related posts makes the user engagement intact and reduced bounce rate.
   it helps in more user interaction with the posts and articles.
   I have seen many bloggers showing views count and read time of the posts, like 5 minutes read or 3 minutes read.
   can we have popular posts and related posts where ever we want with this method? and
   Is this method can be used for achieving both these objectives like having read time based on word counts?

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   • WPBeginner Support

     You should be able to place it wherever widgets are allowed. For the time to read, it would depend on the plugin you use for that and if it has an integration or not.

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3. Jiří Vaněk

   I would like to ask if the snippet also works on the new WordPress 6.4.2. I followed the instructions, cleared the cache, but the most read articles do not appear under the article

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   • WPBeginner Support

     The code snippets should still work with the most up to date version of WordPress.

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     • Jiří Vaněk

       Thank you for the reply. It’s already working. I had a mistake somewhere and unfortunately I don’t know where. In the end, I repeated the whole procedure twice more and it worked on the third try. Unfortunately, I don’t know what I did wrong, but the snippets really work. Thank you.

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       • WPBeginner Support

         Glad they started working for you, it’s always difficult to tell what went wrong when trying the same code again works when the previous time it didn’t.

4. Amy Ling

   Is there a way to make it so it’s based on user vs in general?

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   • WPBeginner Support

     We do not have a recommended method for user specific popular posts at the moment.

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5. Chris

   If we have caching enabled, can we avoid the caching problem by resorting to JavaScript (AJAX) to send the command to record the view? Would that work?

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   • WPBeginner Support

     While there is a complex way to have that workaround, we do not have a method we would recommend at this time.

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6. thomas

   How can I reset the meta keys or reset the counting??
   Is there any function?

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   • WPBeginner Support

     If you’re using the custom code method, it is saved as a custom field in which case you can edit the count in the edit post area itself. You can see more on custom fields in our guide below:
     https://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/wordpress-custom-fields-101-tips-tricks-and-hacks/

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7. saikat

   yes, very helpful tutorial

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   • WPBeginner Support

     Glad our guide was helpful!

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8. Amir

   Hello, thank you very much.
   It is very simple and practical.

   But with each reload, one visit is added.
   How can I fix this problem?

   Thankful

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   • WPBeginner Support

     Any time a user would reload a page or visit the page again would be another visit. For specifically excluding refreshes you would need to use a plugin with more advanced features.

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9. locas

   only 4 posts
   I’ve tried to change to 10 but still 4 posts show up
   ‘posts_per_page’ => 10

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   • WPBeginner Support

     You may want to try clearing all caching checking with your theme’s support to ensure they don’t have anything that would conflict with this

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10. za

    Thank you for the tutorial. I applied it and it works. No need another plugin to show popular posts and the customized counter in single.

    Thanks!

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    • WPBeginner Support

      Glad our article could help

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11. Chris

    Is it beyond the scope of this article to explain had you assign the functions to those buttons as in your screenshot:

    Recent Articles – Popular Posts – editor’s picks

    That is basically what I want to do…have buttons at the top of my posts page for recent, popular/trending, editors picks. I haven’t found any plugins that can do that. The all focus on side bar widgets.

    It looks like your article is starting to talk about this but where to go from there is beyond my current knowledge level.

    Thanks,
    Chris

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12. Sakshi Grover

    This was very helpful.!!! Thanks a ton.!

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13. Amit Biswas

    Getting double view count on refresh (single.php). Don’t know if the remove action is working or not for “adjacent_posts_rel_link_wp_head”. Useless so far. I tried everything that is possible to remove double count. Using this code in a custom made plugin.

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14. Hans

    Thsi thing works greats.

    Now I want the columnn in admin to be sortable. any idea how to do this?

    many thanks!

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15. Trevor

    Hey, thanks for the code. Only issue I’m having is the view count is incrementing by 2 instead of 1 on refresh. Any thoughts?

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    • Shwet

      I have the same problem with this code.
      Have you found any solution of this?

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    • Fuchel

      This was happening for me because I had:

      `set_post_views(get_the_ID());` in single.php
      AND
      `add_action( ‘wp_head’, ‘track_post_views’);` in my functions.php which was also adding `set_post_views(get_the_ID());` within it.

      By removing the line on single.php I fixed the double count.

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16. Maya

    How to show most popular posts on my home page?

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17. Shaq

    How do I do this for a weekly basis, most viewed posts each week?!

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18. iftkhar hussain

    ah , this works fine ;
    thanks dear !

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19. Bülent Sakarya

    Hello..

    Using w3total cache but count not working correctly.

    don’t use child theme. how can I fix it?

    thanks..

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20. Ryley Ameden

    Fixed this issue:

    Cannot use WP_Query, used get_posts and it is now working. Then use a foreach look to loop through the posts and display them. See below:

    $blog_cat_array = get_the_category();
    $blog_cat = $blog_cat_array[0]->term_id;

    $popularpost = array(
    ‘posts_per_page’ => 2,
    ‘meta_key’ => ‘wpb_post_views_count’,
    ‘orderby’ => ‘meta_value_num’,
    ‘order’ => ‘DESC’,
    ‘category’ => $blog_cat,
    ‘post_type’ => ‘post’,
    );
    $pop_posts = get_posts($popularpost);

    foreach($pop_posts as $pop_post){
    the_title();
    }

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21. Philipp

    Is there a possibility to count only unique visitors? Thank you

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22. Zeeshan

    Simple Awesome …. (Y)

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23. Erwin Barendregt

    I really like this option and have built it into my site.
    I have one question regarding the count. I found that the counts were rather high so I changed the code around a bit. With every count increase I wrote the IP address to a log file. I found hat two-third of the counts were legit and the other ones came from googlebot, apple, etc. and just now apews Is there any way to get the counts right and do you know if the ‘regular’ plugins have found a way around this?
    Thx!
    BTW: Keep up the good work, I thoroughly enjoy this site!

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    • bah

      you can take maxmind ISP IP database and only count humans. This is the best option. Second just dont count common bots user-agent-names

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      • Erwin Barendregt

        Thanks so much. I will definitely look into that.
        In the mean time I implemneted the solution which was implemented in the WordPress Popular Posts plugin. That works for now, but the solution you recommended seems more future-proof. Thanks again!

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24. HiepTD

    Hello, I am using WP Super Cache.
    I do not know how this code works correctly.

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25. Krishna

    It is not working for Custom Post Type. Can you help me on this please..

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26. John

    Hi! Awesome! This code helped me a lot!

    Do you know how to display the posts with 0 views? I have to enter to the post page by using the url the first time, otherwise it doesn’t show.

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27. Gianmarco

    Awesome thanks this is really useful, but a question. Doesn’t it slow down the loading of the page significantly?

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28. ayaz

    Hi,

    This is very useful post, i really appreciate. Can i filter the post in category, I wanted to show the post of specific category.

    Thanks.

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29. Md Maruf Adnan Sami

    How can i set Features post on Mobilepress Hompage?
    Please give me that code.

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30. gift charles

    Thank you for this awesome post, you guys are the best

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31. Bojan

    Ok this is great. For some reason, post count doesnt show numbers, not sure is it because i work on a local., but what i wanted to ask even more, is how to add so it count only in the last 7 days?

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32. Blown

    Hi, How can I show the most popular posts for the current week??

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33. Ashish

    Awesome Article !! Thanks. Would be better if code was explained in detail.

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34. Dhiraj Kataria

    I need advice on how r u to Load Word files to a Wordpress website please. Is there an easy way?

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35. DarkSafka

    Sadly this does not work with W3 Total Cache with Page Caching enabled. Coul not get any “fragmented caching” to work either.

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    • Fakrul

      Same here @DARKSAFKA . Not working.

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36. Riya

    nice code. work perfectly….

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    • hmmm

      you are right

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37. REIBI

    Hey,
    This works great. But I need to show popular post of a day, this code shows popular posts of all time. Is there anyway to show popular posts of a day only.

    Any help will be greatly appreciated.

    Thanks

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    • Dimitrios Arkolakis

      Try to add something like this in the WP Query

      ‘date_query’ => array(
      array(
      ‘year’ => $today[‘year’],
      ‘month’ => $today[‘mon’],
      ‘day’ => $today[‘mday’],
      ),

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      • Nick Heurter

        This doesn’t seems to work. Is there anyone who figures out how to display the most popular posts of the lasts 7 days?

        Thanks!

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    • Yonatan

      Add this code to the query

      ‘date_query’ => array(
      array(
      ‘after’ => ‘1 week ago’
      )
      )

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38. Mawardiy

    Hi, I use Goodnews 5.7.2 theme, but where i put “wpb_get_post_views(get_the_ID());” in my theme, thank for u’r guidance

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39. Alex

    Hey, thanks for the information.
    There’s a little problem. I put:

    function wpb_set_post_views($postID) {
    $count_key = ‘wpb_post_views_count’;
    $count = get_post_meta($postID, $count_key, true);
    if($count==”){
    $count = 0;
    delete_post_meta($postID, $count_key);
    add_post_meta($postID, $count_key, ‘0’);
    }else{
    $count++;
    update_post_meta($postID, $count_key, $count);
    }
    }
    //To keep the count accurate, lets get rid of prefetching
    remove_action( ‘wp_head’, ‘adjacent_posts_rel_link_wp_head’, 10, 0);

    function wpb_track_post_views ($post_id) {
    if ( !is_single() ) return;
    if ( empty ( $post_id) ) {
    global $post;
    $post_id = $post->ID;
    }
    wpb_set_post_views($post_id);
    }
    add_action( ‘wp_head’, ‘wpb_track_post_views’);

    function wpb_get_post_views($postID){
    $count_key = ‘wpb_post_views_count’;
    $count = get_post_meta($postID, $count_key, true);
    if($count==”){
    delete_post_meta($postID, $count_key);
    add_post_meta($postID, $count_key, ‘0’);
    return “0 View”;
    }
    return $count.’ Views’;
    }

    and my visits counts always as two. What’s happening? Thanks.

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40. 6b

    Really great instruction no need of plugin.works perfect.

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41. Paritosh Arya

    What table does this custom field get stored into? Is it the posts table or the postmeta?

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    • ScoDal

      I modified this a little to use it as a shortcode. To use this with a shortcode, add this to your functions.php:

      function wpb_set_post_views($postID) {
      $count_key = ‘wpb_post_views_count’;
      $count = get_post_meta($postID, $count_key, true);
      if($count==”){
      $count = 0;
      delete_post_meta($postID, $count_key);
      add_post_meta($postID, $count_key, ‘0’);
      }else{
      $count++;
      update_post_meta($postID, $count_key, $count);
      }
      }
      //To keep the count accurate, lets get rid of prefetching
      remove_action( ‘wp_head’, ‘adjacent_posts_rel_link_wp_head’, 10, 0);

      function wpb_track_post_views ($post_id) {
      if ( !is_single() ) return;
      if ( empty ( $post_id) ) {
      global $post;
      $post_id = $post->ID;
      }
      wpb_set_post_views($post_id);
      }
      add_action( ‘wp_head’, ‘wpb_track_post_views’);

      function wpb_get_post_views($postID){
      $count_key = ‘wpb_post_views_count’;
      $count = get_post_meta($postID, $count_key, true);
      if($count==”){
      delete_post_meta($postID, $count_key);
      add_post_meta($postID, $count_key, ‘0’);
      return “0 View”;
      }
      return $count.’ Views’;
      }

      function wpb_most_viewed_posts() {
      // start output buffering
      ob_start();
      ?>
      4, ‘meta_key’ => ‘wpb_post_views_count’, ‘orderby’ => ‘meta_value_num’, ‘order’ => ‘DESC’);

      //begin loop
      while ($query->have_posts()) : $query->the_post(); ?>

      <?php

      // Turn off output buffering
      $theResult = ob_get_clean();

      //Return output
      return $theResult;
      }
      // Create shortcode
      add_shortcode('wpb_most_viewed', 'wpb_most_viewed_posts');

      //Enable shortcode execution in text widgets
      add_filter('widget_text', 'do_shortcode');

      Then simply add [wpb_most_viewed] to your desired page/post and it should display your most popular posts.

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42. Marcos

    Hello. Huge thanks for that. Works very well in my theme.

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43. John

    Hello, great tutorial but I have one question.
    After following all of the steps the template isn’t paginating. It’s only showing the default 10 posts. Should this happen or is there a way to get it to paginate?

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44. Varange

    Folks, please help. Just cannot figure it out.

    How do I change the args to the wp-query to show the most popular posts for the last week? Or month?

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45. Denis

    Hello,
    can I do this with comments? I dont use any comments on my site so I could use this comment count to check my most popular page without adding a comment?
    Cheers,
    Denis

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46. Kes

    How do i make this work with w3 total cache? I’ve tried the fragment cache suggestion but changes nothing

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47. Kes

    I’ve found a number of tuts covering this topic but none seem to spell out where the line goes.

    I’ve tried it inside PHP tags and it breaks the page. If i place it in the HTML it just renders as a comment when you view source and no php is generated.

    Any ideas? I’m w3 total cache and my page views aren’t getting updated

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48. jarc100

    Thanks, this works as charm, but i didn’t get how to use it with the W3 Total Cache.

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49. Jorge

    Hello! How can I show the most popular posts for the current week?? Is there any possible? Thanks in advance.

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50. Bigdragon13th

    Hello,
    I’m using this code for months and it’s works great! That’s before I start using W3 Total cache and the code stop counting view for me.
    I struck at where and how do I need to put the mfunc code. Can you point that out for me?
    FYI, I put all of the codes in site-specific plugin.

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