WP Popular Posts
slug: wordpress-popular-posts
WordPress plugin by Hector Cabrera · detected on 90 sites in our index (1.69% of WordPress sites scanned)
A highly customizable, easy-to-use popular posts plugin!
Where WP Popular Posts sits in the WordPress plugin ecosystem
WP Popular Posts is the #133 most-detected WordPress plugin in our scan index of 5,328 sites — appearing on roughly 1.69% of WordPress sites we've fingerprinted. Most sites running WP Popular Posts are hosted on Pantheon (80% of identified hosts). The most common companion plugin is Yoast SEO – Advanced SEO with real-time guidance and built-in AI, present on 59% of WP Popular Posts sites. The most frequent theme is VGC Sage Theme.
Every data point here comes from actual scans of public WordPress sites — not vendor case studies or curated showcases. We don't accept submissions; everything you see is detected automatically when a site is scanned through the tool.
Plugins commonly used with WP Popular Posts
From co-occurrence analysis across sites running WP Popular Posts in our index.
- Yoast SEO – Advanced SEO with real-time guidance and built-in AI59% of WP Popular Posts sites · 53 sites
- Redirection43% of WP Popular Posts sites · 39 sites
- Classic Editor31% of WP Popular Posts sites · 28 sites
- Yoast Duplicate Post27% of WP Popular Posts sites · 24 sites
- Wordfence Security – Firewall, Malware Scan, and Login Security23% of WP Popular Posts sites · 21 sites
- Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection22% of WP Popular Posts sites · 20 sites
- Regenerate Thumbnails19% of WP Popular Posts sites · 17 sites
- Jetpack – WP Security, Backup, Speed, & Growth18% of WP Popular Posts sites · 16 sites
Themes commonly running WP Popular Posts
Top themes on sites using this plugin.
- VGC Sage Theme3% of WP Popular Posts sites · 2 sites
- avada3% of WP Popular Posts sites · 2 sites
- GeneratePress Child3% of WP Popular Posts sites · 2 sites
- gi3% of WP Popular Posts sites · 2 sites
- tdm-editorial3% of WP Popular Posts sites · 2 sites
- Accela1% of WP Popular Posts sites · 1 site
Hosting providers running WP Popular Posts
Limited to sites where we identified the hosting provider.
Sites using WP Popular Posts
Most-recently-scanned sites detected with this plugin.
- andromo.comHello Elementor · host unknown · scanned 2026-05-22
- preppykitchen.comSeasoned Pro · host unknown · scanned 2026-05-22
- martech.orgtdm-editorial · host unknown · scanned 2026-05-22
- accelia.netaccelia · host unknown · scanned 2026-05-22
- texasobserver.orgTexas Observer · host unknown · scanned 2026-05-22
- thequietus.comtheme unknown · host unknown · scanned 2026-05-22
- operationsports.comtheme unknown · host unknown · scanned 2026-05-22
- aish.comoxygen-is-not-a-theme · host unknown · scanned 2026-05-22
- gamer.orghuber · host unknown · scanned 2026-05-22
- fadv.comfastmktgus · host unknown · scanned 2026-05-22
- powermag.comPowermag 2025 · Pantheon · scanned 2026-05-22
- msmagazine.comMs. Magazine Theme · host unknown · scanned 2026-05-22
How we detect WP Popular Posts
Five-vector detection — /wp-content/plugins/wordpress-popular-posts/ asset paths, /wp-json/ REST API namespaces, HTML signature patterns, sitemap XML comments, and asset-probe HEAD requests against the top-100 popular plugins on wordpress.org. Each detected plugin carries provenance pills showing which sources corroborated it — cross-vector matches indicate high-confidence detections. More on how detection works.
Data comes from real-time scans of public WordPress sites — not vendor case studies or curated showcases. Every claim on this page traces back to a specific detection in our scan corpus, observable via our methodology. Affiliate links are disclosed per the affiliate disclosure.