On a photography site every pixel of attention belongs to the photos, so anything added has to be small and quiet. Country flags and a visitor count give a gallery the sense of audience it otherwise lacks, and they do it in one line of text rather than a panel.
What you are trying to do here is show reach without putting anything in front of the images. Three widgets below do that; the other 15 in the set mostly do not, so they are not on this page. No plugin. WordPress accepts raw HTML in a Custom HTML block, which is all this needs.
On WordPress this goes in a footer widget area — a ranked country list belongs at the bottom, where its lazy-loaded flags stay below the fold.
On WordPress this goes in a footer widget area — an all-time total is a footer artefact — nobody scrolls up to check it.
On WordPress this goes in the post or page itself — a live count only changes behaviour when it sits in the same line of sight as the price or the button.
Footer only, at small size. Do not put a widget in a gallery grid or a lightbox — it breaks the one thing visitors came for.
flag counter — On a photography site every pixel of attention belongs to the photos, so anything added has to be small and quiet. Country flags and a visitor count give a gallery the sense of audience it otherwise lacks, and they do it in one line of text rather than a panel.
Footer only, at small size. Do not put a widget in a gallery grid or a lightbox — it breaks the one thing visitors came for.
No plugin. WordPress accepts raw HTML in a Custom HTML block, which is all this needs.