For many people, who are new to wordpress. It may be pretty difficult to add popular posts to your wordpress theme.
I myself like to include both Recent Posts and Popular Posts so I can see what posts my visitors are reading the most.
What Popular Posts Plugin for WordPress is Best?
Your popular posts section should show up in your sidebar that is the most common location for it. Majority of time the popular post is determined by the number of hits or visits to that one blog post compared to all your blog posts.
You can use popular posts plugin using sidebar widgets or you can insert the code into your wordpress template files.
Recommend Popular Posts Plugin
I recommend the WordPress.com Popular Posts plugin which you can find by clicking on the link.
Installing the Plugin
1. Download from the link provided above, Simply extract and upload the folder through FTP into your wordpress plugins directory.
2. Login to WP-Admin and Activate your new plugin.
3. You can add the popular posts by using it as a widget or using the php code to include the popular posts.
If you are using a template, You can insert this code into your sidebar.
<?php if (function_exists(’WPPP_show_popular_posts’)) WPPP_show_popular_posts(); ?>
If you want to edit how your popular posts will be displayed you will need a bit of CSS experience to change the formatting. Good luck.
Please comment if you have any questions.
