Easy popular posts

Most popular-posts plugins want to track page views, which means storing a counter on every load, or worse, pulling in an analytics service. I did not want any of that for my own themes, so I built this to use a number WordPress already keeps: the comment count. The posts people talk about most rise to the top, and nothing extra has to be tracked. It gives theme developers one template tag. You call it where you want the list, you get your popular posts, done. What you get A single template tag that returns your most-commented posts Comment count as the popularity signal: nothing to track, nothing to slow a page load No WooCommerce view tracking, no external analytics, no configuration screen Who it's for Theme developers building a sidebar or footer who want a popular-posts block without adding weight. If your site gets real comment activity, this is an honest signal of what readers eng