AJAX Hits Counter + Popular Posts Widget WordPress Plugin
Counts page/posts hits via AJAX. Ideal for nginx whole-page-caching or caching plugins.
For plugin's work you DON'T need any JS-framework, such as jQuery, MooTools, etc.
Popular Posts Widget included.
You can fully customize displaying of widget by using predefined placeholders, such as {post_id}, {post_title}, {post_title_N}, {post_excerpt_N}, {post_author}, {post_author_link}, {permalink}, {post_date}, {thumbnail-[medium|...|64x64]}, {post_categories}, {post_hits} and {post_comments_count}.
Also you can show hits count in Posts/Pages Loop. Simply add this line:
<?php echo(ajax_hits_counter_get_hits(get_the_ID())); ?>
or equivalent
<?= ajax_Sites running AJAX Hits Counter + Popular Posts Widget, click to open one
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Usage of AJAX Hits Counter + Popular Posts Widget over time
June 2023 — July 2024Between June 2023 and July 2024 the number of sites running this plugin went from 69 to 33 — down 36 (-52.2%).
| Month | Sites | Change |
|---|---|---|
| July 2024 | 33 | -3 |
| June 2024 | 36 | -3 |
| May 2024 | 39 | +0 |
| April 2024 | 39 | +0 |
| March 2024 | 39 | -5 |
| February 2024 | 44 | -4 |
| January 2024 | 48 | -4 |
| December 2023 | 52 | +0 |
| November 2023 | 52 | +1 |
| October 2023 | 51 | -3 |
| September 2023 | 54 | -11 |
| August 2023 | 65 | -4 |
| July 2023 | 69 | +0 |
| June 2023 | 69 | — |
Themes used with AJAX Hits Counter + Popular Posts Widget
Detected most often on sites that run this plugin.
| # | Theme |
|---|---|
| 1 | Newspaper |
| 2 | Tower |
| 3 | Eleven40-pro |
| 4 | Avada |
| 5 | Dt-the7 |
| 6 | X |
| 7 | Journo |
| 8 | Djournal |
| 9 | Healthpress-theme |
| 10 | Wheeler |
| 11 | Westward |
| 12 | Bootstrap-basic |
| 13 | Oxygen |
| 14 | Virtue |
| 15 | Vgrby |
| 16 | Unspoken |
| 17 | Edvkeller_v8-1 |
| 18 | Ohantekten |
| 19 | Arida |
| 20 | Bv-2020 |
Sites running AJAX Hits Counter + Popular Posts Widget
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