Last Viewed Posts by WPBeginner

Installing this will allow you to use a widget or template tag to show your site's visitors a personalized list of posts and pages they have viewed. The list of posts is saved in each visitor's web browser, so even if you get millions of visitors a month it won't affect the performance of your website. Note: It doesn't store a global list of recently viewed posts by all users. Nothing is stored in your site's database. Every visitor has a custom lists of posts and pages they have viewed. If JavaScript is disabled or no single post has been clicked, no output will be displayed. The plugin comes with a widget and a template tag. This plugin has been adopted and maintained by WPBeginner What's Next? To learn more about WordPress, you can visit WPBeginner for tutorials on topics like:

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Viewed posts are always tracked as long as the plugin is active and the visitor has enabled JavaScript and local storage.

1. Install Last Viewed Posts by uploading the last-viewed-posts directory to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory. (See instructions on how to install a WordPress plugin.)
2. Activate Last Viewed Posts through the Plugins menu in WordPress.

To display the list, you can use the widget that comes with the plugin, or use the following code and place it anywhere you want to outside the loop, e.g. sidebar.php : Last viewed posts

1.0.2

• Remove the legacy cookie based code.
• Test on WordPress 6.7.1.

1.0.1

• Fix for legacy widget settings.

1.0.0

• Complete rewrite to use JavaScript rather than cookies to store custom posts.
• Updated list of supported WordPress versions.
• Improved performance for sites with a large number of visitors.

0.7.3

• Updated Readme.txt.
• Checked compatibility with WordPress 5.1.1.
• Miscellaneous updates.

0.7.2

• Plugin maintenance update.

0.7.1

• Post/Page ID values in cookie are sanitized for output. Upgrade is recommend for more security.

0.7

• Pages can now be recognized (optional).
• Custom Loop is no longer used. Now we make a database query to get the post title.