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Popularity Posts Widget
With help of this plugin you can display the most popular posts on your blog.
The facts
- Rating
- 4.3★ from 7
- Active installs
- 200+
- Price
- Free
- Last updated
- 24 Mar 2013
- Added
- Jan 2013
- Requires WP
- 3.2
- Tested up to
- WP 3.5.2
- Downloads
- 44,344
Our analysis
AI-assistedThe Popularity Posts Widget is a WordPress plugin that displays your most popular posts as a widget on your blog. It allows you to select a time range for sorting posts, such as today or the last 30 days, and offers flexible display settings for the number of posts, title length, and additional information like views or comments.
You can filter posts by category and customize the appearance using CSS. The plugin supports shortcodes and template tags for easy integration. It is suitable for bloggers who want to highlight popular content on their site.
Best for: Bloggers looking to showcase their most popular posts.
What it does well
- ✓Allows selection of time range for popular posts
- ✓Flexible display settings for posts
- ✓Category filtering for post display
- ✓Supports CSS customization
- ✓Includes shortcode and template tag support
Where it falls short
- •Last updated in March 2013, may not be compatible with newer WordPress versions
- •Limited information on future updates and features
Verdict
The Popularity Posts Widget provides basic functionality for displaying popular posts, but its age may limit compatibility with newer WordPress versions.
From the developer
ILLID's own description of Popularity Posts Widget, lightly tidied.
Want something to say – write me to mih.barinov at gmail dot com
This plugin allows you to show your most popular posts as a widget on your blog!
Main Features
- Time Range – You can choose a specific time range (today, last 7 days, last 30 days, all time) to sort youre posts and know the most popular of them within that period
- Flexibel Display Settings – How many posts to display? Whats the posts title length must be? Should views, comments or dates displayed in every post in list? To all this quastions you can answer witch help of flexible widget settings!
- Display a thumbnail of your posts!
- Categories Filter – Should youre posts displays from all categories or only from specific one?
- Easy to Change CSS Styles – ppw.css file in youre full possession. Do with him all what you want!
- Shortcode and Template tag support – use the [ppw] shortcode or ppw_get_popular_posts() template tag to showcase your most popular posts. For detail information, please refer to the faq section.
To-Do List
This is the list of some features, that I planning to add in next versions of plugin. Please donate to help me make all this things.
- New styles for plugin.
- Unique visitors filter.
- Compatibility with caching plugins (such as WP Super Cache/W3 Total Cache).
- Compatibility for external images.
If you have some other suggestions you can mail me to mih.barinov at gmail dot com.
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