WebberZone Top 10 — Popular Posts (original) (raw)

WordPress lacks built-in page view tracking or a popular posts feature. Top 10 solves this by counting views across posts, pages, and custom post types, then letting you showcase your most popular content.

Top 10 provides blocks, widgets, shortcodes, and template functions for displaying popular posts and view counts across your site. All tracking data is stored locally in your WordPress database, with no external services involved.

Top 10 includes comprehensive features such as thumbnail support, flexible display options, custom post type support, and developer-friendly extensibility. A built-in caching layer reduces server load, while AJAX-based tracking avoids page cache interference and works with most popular caching plugins.

Top 10 also exposes a powerful API with WordPress actions and filters, allowing developers to customise queries, tracking behaviour, and output rendering without modifying core plugin files.

Features

Features in Top 10 Pro

GDPR

Top 10 does not collect personal visitor data out of the box. Tracking data is stored locally in the wp_top_ten and wp_top_ten_daily database tables (table prefix may vary).

You are responsible for ensuring GDPR compliance on your website.

Translations

Top 10 is available for translation on WordPress.org.
See the Translator Handbook to contribute.

Contribute

Top 10 is developed openly on GitHub.
Fork the project and submit pull requests for bug fixes or improvements. Please do not use GitHub for support requests.

Other WebberZone Plugins

This plugin provides 2 blocks.

WordPress install (easy way)

  1. Go to Plugins Add New in your WordPress Admin
  2. Search for “Top 10”
  3. Click Install Now and then Activate

Manual install

  1. Download the top-10.zip file
  2. Go to Plugins Add New Upload Plugin
  3. Upload the ZIP file and click Install Now
  4. Activate the plugin
  5. Configure settings under Top 10 Settings

Help and Support

Where can I get help and support?

Before opening a support request, please check the following resources:

These cover the most common questions and are the fastest way to get answers, as they are actively maintained.

If your question is not answered there, please create a new topic in the
WordPress.org support forum.
This is the preferred support channel for the free plugin, and the forums are monitored regularly.

Support for products sold and distributed by WebberZone is available only
to users with an active, valid licence. Licensed users can request support here.

Can this plugin replace Google Analytics?

No. Top 10 tracks page views and displays popular posts. It is not designed to replace analytics platforms.

How does scheduled maintenance work?

When enabled, Top 10 runs a scheduled task that periodically removes old entries
from the wp_top_ten_daily table.

Note: WordPress executes scheduled tasks on the first eligible page load.

How can I report security bugs?

You can report security bugs through the Patchstack Vulnerability Disclosure Program.
The Patchstack team help validate, triage and handle any security vulnerabilities.
Report a security vulnerability.

Was using WordPress Popular Posts to see pages getting visits on my website until it stopped working. Had to look for alternatives and found this. Installed it but it still didn’t work. I had to remove it and lo and behold, an email from the developer! Couldn’t believe it because I haven’t seen that before. To cut a long story short, he helped me to resolve the problem and the plugin works like a charm! I definitely recommend. 5 stars.

large different views count, at Top 10 just 5 views, on jetpack 120 views at Top 10 7K views, on jetpack 10K views tell me why?

Since the widgets in my Soledad theme (pencidesign) don’t allow you to choose post types (well, they do, but as always, it doesn’t work), I installed the Popular Post plugin. The plugin works perfectly and looks good, but it says it’s out of date and needs changing. So I installed this plugin, with lots of useless options and inconsistent settings between the widget and the admin configuration. But the display is ugly, the photos don’t adapt automatically and perfectly, like Popular Post, and like the old plugins, before the arrival of tablet and mobile, it asks you to set sizes for the photos. But what size to set? There’s no option for desktop, tablet or mobile! Good programmers have images that adapt to the device! I thought I’d have to buy the pro version for the display to be correct, but after registering on the site, there’s nothing. So it’s a shame to see Wordpress going downhill, evolving in the wrong direction and good plugins disappearing.

I was forced to replace WordPress Popular Posts (plugin is banned from Kinsta Hosting) and was happy to find Top-10. Does a nice job, but not yet as versatile as WPP. Already has a lot of extension points (hooks), which i’ll further investigate (e.g. showing category names after title/excerpt). Developer seems responsive and very supportive, which is nice!

Use this plugin since 2018 for all my sites, easy to install and configure. Just one time issue with my new site, but it’s solved. Nice plugin, awesome features and plus great support! Big Thank You!

Using WordPress, I created a reusable block and add the most popular posts over the last 24 hours to the end of every news story (it’s a news site). Since adding that feature, my page views and time on site have nearly doubled, it helps to present my readers with other posts that are relevant at the time. Even if someone finds a news article that is a few years old through a web search, at the end of the article it will display the most current trending stories to encourage people to keep reading. Works great. I recommend.

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“WebberZone Top 10 — Popular Posts” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

4.2.0

Release post: https://webberzone.com/announcements/top-10-v4-2-0/