WP Popular Posts
slug: wordpress-popular-posts
WordPress plugin by Hector Cabrera · detected on 91 sites in our index (1.68% 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 5,424 sites, appearing on roughly 1.68% 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 gi.
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 · 54 sites
- Redirection43% of WP Popular Posts sites · 39 sites
- Classic Editor32% of WP Popular Posts sites · 29 sites
- Yoast Duplicate Post26% 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 Protection23% of WP Popular Posts sites · 21 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.
- gi3% of WP Popular Posts sites · 2 sites
- tdm-editorial3% of WP Popular Posts sites · 2 sites
- GeneratePress Child3% of WP Popular Posts sites · 2 sites
- VGC Sage Theme3% of WP Popular Posts sites · 2 sites
- avada3% of WP Popular Posts sites · 2 sites
- TheCable Nigeria1% 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.
- sorakaro.comNomina · host unknown · scanned 2026-07-05
- 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
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.