WordPress is the leading CMS where millions of people blog daily. By default, you cannot create a graph or chart from the default WordPress post editor. But, there are several scripts, plugins and API libraries available for embedding rich and interactive charts and graphs within your blog posts. In this post I have collected some of the best free wordpress chart plugins for your wordpress blogs.
It should come as no surprise, then, that there are plugins being released and updated every single day. Some of them bring features that we all wish WordPress had by default. If you like this post, share it with your friends through email and social networks. You will definitely like these articles: Eco Friendly WordPress Premium Themes, Free WordPress bbPress Widgets, Free Network Monitoring Tools and WooCommerce WordPress Plugins.
1. IPU-Chart
IPU-Chart is a WordPress shortcode to create many different chart types inside your blog or page. It works perfectly on large computer screens as well as on tablets and smaller mobile screens.
2. Visualizer
WordPress Visualizer plugin is a simple, easy to use and quite powerful tool to create, manage and embed interactive charts into your WordPress posts and pages.
3. WP-Stats-Dashboard
Display your blog’s stats graph plus your blog traffic, social engagement and social influence directly in your dashboard. See how you’re ranking on Alexa.
4. WP SlimStat Dashboard Widgets
WP SlimStat Dashboard Widgets uses the HTML5 Canvas element to display its charts. Unfortunately Internet Explorer 8 and older versions don’t support this functionality.
5. WP GPX Maps
This plugin has, as input, the GPX file with the track you’ve made and as output it shows the map of the track and an interactive altitude graph.
6. ChartBoot for WordPress
ChartBoot for WordPress Plugin allows to create, edit and embed Google Charts in WordPress Posts and/or Pages.
7. Linear Tag Cloud
A simple and clean widget tag cloud with a list of tags in orizontal percentual lines. Suitable for any theme because have measures in percentage.
8. WP Flot
This plugin adds shortcodes for line, pie and bar charts, created with the Flot javascript library.
9. WordPress Archive Chart
This plugin provides a shortcode to be inserted into posts which display a nice graph showing your recent posting frequency.
10. WordPress Statistics
A perfect plugin for your blog visitor statistics. Track Visitor and visit statistics to your blog for today and keep up to a year of history!
11. NVD3 Visualisations
NVD3 visualisations is a full set of visually interactive charts that can be controlled by simple options. You can start to create any example chart into your blog and study it more before you decide if that suits for your visual presentation’s needs at hand.
12. WordPress Charts
Create amazing HTML5 charts easily in WordPress. A flexible and lightweight WordPress chart plugin including 6 customizable chart types.
13. WassUp Real Time Analytics
Analyze your visitors traffic with real-time statistics, a lot of chronological information, charts, a sidebar widget. The aim of WassUp is the knowledge of what your visitors do when they surf your site.
