The Hits List tracks post views locally in WordPress, displays popular posts, and can migrate compatible Top 10 data into a free replacement.
Version 1.6.0
Stable tag: 1.6.0
Requires WordPress 6.2 or newer and PHP 7.4 or newer. Tested up to WordPress 7.1.
Read the 1.6.0 release notes for the new ranking controls,
article reports, and count-maintenance improvements.
Documentation
Key Features
- Local view tracking in WordPress database tables.
- Overall, daily, and short-lived hourly view counts.
- Trending, which ranks posts by how fast views are rising rather than by totals.
- Refresh candidates, highlighting well-read posts that have gone quiet.
- Popular Posts block, widget, shortcodes, and template tags, with current-post
exclusion and publication-age limits. - A standalone Post Views block for displaying one article's count.
- Ranking suppression for individual posts or selected categories and tags,
while keeping tracking and view history. - Article-performance charts and daily tables on the edit screen.
- Refresh-candidate snooze controls and seven-day before/after refresh reports.
- Five WordPress dashboard cards covering daily and all-time top posts, views over time, trending, and refresh candidates.
- Configurable dashboard access for additional roles.
- Sortable total and today's view columns, plus a condensed Views column, on
selected public content types. - Configurable daily retention and automatic hourly retention.
- CSV and JSON import/export of overall and daily counts.
- Automatic cleanup after permanent deletion, background repair of historical
orphan counts, and WP-CLI count removal. - Rerun-safe Top 10 migration compatibility, with cleanup and old-plugin removal.
- REST-based tracking with AJAX as a selectable alternative.
- Privacy-policy integration for site owners.