There will come a point in your blog’s lifetime that new visitors and even your loyal readers would want to know which of your articles are the most popular and most viewed. The no. of views is a testament that your articles are being read and that some people are interested in them.

There are quite a number of Wordpress plugins that can be used to do this. I’ve actually tried two others first before settling on WP-PostViews. It’s the easiest one to install and the FAQ is in English. If you can see the _ views at the top of this post, I installed that in just 5 minutes. Here’s how I did it.

Steps in Installing WP-PostViews

  1. Download the plugin here. Unzip it.

  2. Log-in to your FTP server. Copy the WP-PostViews plugin to public_html/wp-content/plugins.

  3. Activate the plugin in the Plugins tab.

  4. Copy this code on your template files.

    <?php if(function_exists(’the_views’)) { the_views(); } ?>

    For BlueMumble, I’ve pasted this code to four files, namely: search.php, archive.php, single.php, and index.php. Just put the code somewhere below the code <?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>.

  5. You’re done!

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