201 elements · 925 sections · Works with free Elementor
A built-in, privacy-friendly view counter ranks your stories by today, this week, this month or all time — or by a trending score that favors fresh stories. Eight layouts, from a news ticker to heat bars.
Read counts on this demo are sample numbers seeded for the preview. On your site they come from real visits.
Put it under your logo: a continuous scroll that pauses when readers hover, or one story at a time with arrows. Both rank stories by real reads.
The classic “Most read” sidebar with Today / This week / This month tabs, 7-day sparklines and a Hot badge on the top story. The story being read never shows up in its own list.
June 12 · 6 min read
Store owners along the waterfront say late-afternoon foot traffic has grown every year since the new ferry schedule began, and a handful of them plan to stay open until nine on weekdays through Labor Day.
“People come off the boat hungry and curious,” said the owner of a fictional bookshop on Commercial Street. “If we are closed, they walk right past.”
…the story continues.
Most read in the last 24 hours
Most read in the last 7 days
The top-story layout makes #1 big and lists the rest beside it. Tabs switch between this week and this month; nothing reloads.
Most read in the last 7 days
Most read in the last 30 days
Byteline is a fictional example. Read counts on this demo are sample numbers seeded for the preview. On your site they come from real visits.
Heat bars show how far ahead each story is. “Rising fast” lists stories getting more reads today than yesterday — great for catching a story as it takes off.
The rail scrolls sideways with big rank numbers over the photos — swipe on phones, arrows on desktop. Below, a two-column ranked list of all-time favorites.
Most read in the last 30 days
Most read of all time
The trending score mixes today’s reads with this week’s and gives fresh stories a head start — so a new post can climb past an old favorite. Next to it, the categories getting the most reads.
Most read in the last 24 hours
Most read in the last 7 days
Magazine Blocks (widget #157) now has “Most read” and “Trending now” sources and a read-count option, so a whole homepage row can be ranked by reads.
Sawtooth skylights and a curving white hall make the galleries glow without a single spotlight on sunny days.
Read counts on this demo are sample numbers seeded for the preview. On your site they come from real visits.
No extra analytics plugin needed.
A tiny script on single posts sends one ping per reader per story every 30 minutes — it even works behind page caching.
Bots, crawlers and logged-in editors are not counted, and a soft limit stops anyone from inflating numbers.
No cookies and no IP addresses are stored. Daily totals are kept for 35 days, and every post shows its reads in the Posts list.
