10 Best Post Views Counter Alternatives in 2026
Updated September 7, 2026 · Ranked by how closely each plugin matches, from WordPress.org data · How this works
Post Views Counter has 200,000+ active installs on WordPress.org. These 10 plugins share its category or its tags on WordPress.org, are actively maintained, and each has at least 100 active installs. They are ordered by how closely they match, not by our opinion.
The 10 closest alternatives to Post Views Counter
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WP-PostViews
Closest match4.4 (65) 100,000+ active installsEnables you to display how many times a post/page had been viewed.
Shares the Counter, postviews, statistics tags on WordPress.org. About half the installs, rated 4.4 against 4.9, last updated 14 days ago.
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4.8 (51) 100,000+ active installsVisitor statistics for WordPress with focus on data protection, transparency and clarity. Perfect as a widget in your WordPress Dashboard.
Shares the analytics, pageviews, statistics tags on WordPress.org. About half the installs, rated 4.8 against 4.9, last updated August 7, 2026.
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Matomo Analytics – Powerful, Privacy-First Insights for WordPress
4.6 (177) 100,000+ active installsPrivacy friendly, GDPR compliant and self-hosted. Matomo is the #1 Google Analytics alternative that gives you control of your data. Free and secure.
Shares the analytics tag on WordPress.org. About half the installs, rated 4.6 against 4.9, last updated 7 days ago.
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Pods – Custom Content Types and Fields
4.8 (418) 100,000+ active installsPods is a framework for creating, managing, and deploying customized content types and fields for any project.
About half the installs, rated 4.8 against 4.9, last updated 7 days ago.
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4.5 (249) 100,000+ active installsA highly customizable, easy-to-use popular posts plugin!
About half the installs, rated 4.5 against 4.9, last updated 4 days ago.
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Relevanssi – A Better Search
4.8 (405) 100,000+ active installsRelevanssi replaces the default search with a partial-match search that sorts results by relevance. It also indexes comments and shortcode content.
About half the installs, rated 4.8 against 4.9, last updated 21 days ago.
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4.6 (276) 1 million+ active installsAdmin UI for creating custom content types like post types and taxonomies
About 5 times the installs, rated 4.6 against 4.9, last updated July 14, 2026.
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4.5 (296) 600,000+ active installsSort posts and custom post type objects using a drag-and-drop, sortable JavaScript AJAX interface, or through the default WordPress dashboard
About 3 times the installs, rated 4.5 against 4.9, last updated 6 days ago.
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Forminator Forms
Paid version availableForminator Forms – Contact Form, Payment Form & Custom Form Builder
4.8 (2,121) 600,000+ active installsBest WordPress form builder plugin. Create contact forms, payment forms & order forms with 1000+ integrations.
About 3 times the installs, rated 4.8 against 4.9, last updated 11 days ago.
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4.9 (1,614) 300,000+ active installsDuplicate post
About 1.5 times the installs, last updated 20 days ago.
Switching from Post Views Counter: common questions
What is the best alternative to Post Views Counter?
WP-PostViews is the closest match: it shares the same WordPress.org tags and has 100,000+ active installs with a 4.4 out of 5 rating.
Which Post Views Counter alternative has the most users?
Custom Post Type UI, with 1 million+ active installs reported by WordPress.org.
Which Post Views Counter alternative is rated highest?
Duplicate Post, rated 4.9 out of 5 by 1,614 reviewers. Only plugins with at least 50 reviews are counted.
Are these Post Views Counter alternatives free?
Every plugin listed here is free to install from WordPress.org. Where WordPress.org marks a plugin as commercial, the developer also sells a paid version or add-ons, and that is shown on each plugin.
How are alternatives chosen?
Automatically, from WordPress.org data: plugins that share a category top 10 with Post Views Counter score highest, then plugins that appear in the same WordPress.org rankings, then plugins with the same tags, weighted so rare tags count more than common ones. Plugins by the same author and plugins rated under 4.0 are left out.
How we choose these alternatives
Nothing on this page is picked by hand. Every day we walk the whole WordPress.org directory, then score every plugin against Post Views Counter on three signals: sharing a category top 10 counts most, then appearing in the same WordPress.org rankings, then carrying the same tags, with rare tags counting for more than common ones like "wordpress". Plugins by the same author are excluded, so an author's own add-ons cannot fill the list, and so is anything rated below 4.0 or with fewer than 100 active installs. The ten highest scores are what you see, in that order. Full methodology.
The bottom line
WP-PostViews is the closest match to Post Views Counter by the data we track, and Custom Post Type UI has the widest reach with 1 million+ active installs. WP Popular Posts shipped the most recent release, on September 3, 2026. The list is rebuilt every day from WordPress.org, so a plugin that stops being maintained drops out on its own.
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