The Hits List

The Hits List keeps post view tracking on your own WordPress site and gives you block, widget, and template-tag tools for displaying popular content.

Key features:

• Local view tracking stored in WordPress database tables
• Overall and daily popular-post counts
• Popular Posts block and widget support
• WordPress dashboard cards for daily top posts, all-time top posts, and views over time
• Top 10 migration compatibility with rerun-safe imports
• REST-based tracking with AJAX fallback
• Privacy-policy integration for site owners

Privacy

The Hits List stores post view counts locally in the hits_list and hits_list_daily database tables (table prefix may vary).

It does not send tracking data to a third-party analytics service.

Daily tracking buckets are retained for 180 days by default and older rows are removed automatically.

You are responsible for describing your use of visitor analytics on your own site as needed.

Source Code and Build Tools

The compiled block assets in blocks/popular-posts/build/ are generated from the human-readable source files included in blocks/popular-posts/src/.

To rebuild the block assets:

1. Go to blocks/popular-posts/.
2. Run npm install.
3. Run npm run build.

The block build uses @wordpress/scripts. Runtime PHP, vanilla JavaScript, and CSS assets outside the block build are maintained directly in the plugin source.