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Simple Blog Stats

By Jeff Starr

Analytics & Reporting / Traffic & Visitor Analytics

Simple Blog Stats Review - In-Depth Analysis

Simple Blog Stats displays useful statistics about your site. It shows total posts, pages, categories, tags, and more.

Performance Overview

WPS Score

6.65/10

User Rating

4.9/5 (based on 38+ reviews)

Active Installations

4,000+

Update Frequency

Below Average It is calculated using the weighted average of same category plugins.

Security Score

1 / 10 (Very Low Risk) It is calculated using the weighted average of all versions.

What It Does

Simple Blog Stats (SBS) provides shortcodes and tags to display site statistics in posts, pages, and anywhere in your theme.

This plugin displays a wealth of useful statistics about your site. You can view the total number of posts, pages, categories, tags, and much more.

With features like caching for better performance and options to configure text or markup, this plugin enhances your site's statistics display.

It provides a slick settings screen and works with or without the Gutenberg Block Editor. The plugin is regularly updated and does not collect or store any user data, ensuring user privacy.

Other Notable Features

Here are a few other notable features of this free Simple Blog Stats plugin.

blog statistics

site stats

post counts

Screenshots

FAQ

The plugin provides a filter hook for customizing the total number of posts that are displayed using the [sbs_posts] shortcode. To do it, add the following snippet to your theme functions.php file, or add via custom plugin:

function sbs_get_posts_limit_custom($limit) { return 100; } add_filter('sbs_get_posts_limit', 'sbs_get_posts_limit_custom');

No changes need made; simply edit the 100 to whatever is desired and done.

By default the [sbs_updated] shortcode includes only posts that have “publish” post status. To customize the post status, add the following code to your theme (or child theme’s) functions.php file, or add via custom plugin:

function sbs_updated_post_status($status) {       return 'publish,draft,pending'; // whatever post statuses  } add_filter('sbs_updated_post_status', 'sbs_updated_post_status');

Notice where it says publish,draft,pending, that determines which post statuses are included. You can change/edit as needed.

By default the [sbs_updated] shortcode includes only posts (post type = post). To customize the post type, add the following code to your theme (or child theme’s) functions.php file, or add via custom plugin:

function sbs_updated_post_type($type) {      return array('post', 'book'); // whatever post types  } add_filter('sbs_updated_post_type', 'sbs_updated_post_type');

You can edit the return array with whatever post types are required.

By default, the plugin formats long numbers with commas. To remove/disable the commas for the [sbs_media_count] shortcode, add the following code to your theme (or child theme) functions.php, or add via custom plugin:

function sbs_include_commas($enable) { return false; } add_filter('sbs_include_commas', 'sbs_include_commas');

Save changes and done. Note: currently this works only with the shortcode, [sbs_media_count].

For sites with many many posts and/or posts with LOTS of words. Depending on server capacity, PHP may time out when trying to go through and count everything. As a workaround solution, it’s possible to disable the “all word count” shortcode by adding the following code to your theme functions.php, or add via custom plugin:

function sbs_word_count_all_disable($disable) { return true; } add_filter('sbs_word_count_all_disable', 'sbs_word_count_all_disable');

By default, the shortcode [sbs_word_count_all] counts words in posts from any/all post types. To customize the post type, add the following code to your theme functions.php, or add via custom plugin:

function sbs_word_count_all_post_type($type) {      return array('post', 'page', 'movie', 'book'); // whatever post types  } add_filter('sbs_word_count_all_post_type', 'sbs_word_count_all_post_type');

You can customize the post types in the array as desired.