Bill Erickson

This is a helper plugin to allow you to build WordPress queries using WordPress.com stats.
This plugin uses the WordPress.com stats (packaged in Jetpack) to find out your most popular posts. You must be running Jetpack for this plugin to work. I recommend running Jetpack for at least 30 days to get useful data.
It asks for the 100 most popular posts over the past 30 days. This includes both posts and pages, since their stats don’t let you filter based on post type. I filter this list down to just posts and then store its ranking as post meta (‘be_stats’).
You can <a href="https://gist.github.com/billerickson/4997202" rel="nofollow ugc">write custom queries</a> to list popular posts, or use the <a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/display-posts-shortcode/" rel="ugc">Display Posts Shortcode plugin</a> to do it for you. Examples using the shortcode plugin:
[display-posts orderby=”popular”] – Lists the 10 most popular posts 
[display-posts orderby=”popular” posts_per_page=”4″] – Lists the 4 most popular posts 
[display-posts orderby=”popular” posts_per_page=”4″ tag=”basic”] – Lists the 4 most popular posts tagged “basic”
<h3>For Developers</h3>
There are a few filters available to you for customization. Refer to the plugin’s code for more information.
be_stats_args – arguments passed to WordPress.com Stats API. 
Default: array( ‘days’ => 30, ‘limit’ => 100 ) 
Example: http://www.billerickson.net/code/customize-be-stats-arguments/
be_stats_update – Conditional for determining if stats data should be saved 
Default: ‘post’ == get_post_type() 
Example: http://www.billerickson.net/code/be-stats-change-ranking-conditions/

BE Stats

Keeps track of your most popular posts for display in site

Duke

<h4>Hot’n’Cold shows a different colored badge for every post, depending if the post is “hot”, “medium” or “cold”, based on Jetpack post views</h4>
<ul>
<li>The plugin requires Jetpack to be installed, activated and connected to your WordPress.com account.</li>
</ul>
The typical/full code that you need to add to your theme, wherever you want the badge to display is <code><?php shambix_hotposts(200,100,50,true,true,false); ?></code>
The code MUST be used inside the Loop.
You can customize the code with these parameters, in order:
<ul>
<li>n. of views for the post to be “hot” (default: 200)</li>
<li>n. of views for the post to be “medium” (default: 100)</li>
<li>n. of views for the post to be “cold” (default: 50)</li>
<li>if “hot”, display badge? (default: true)</li>
<li>if “medium”, display badge? (default: true)</li>
<li>if “cold”, display badge? (default: false)</li>
</ul>
We use a css file to style the badges, as they are fully made out of CSS3, no images, however we don’t provide any specific layout (floating, alignment, etc), that way you are free to customize them the way you want, by using the div class <code>hotncold</code> in your own theme style.css
If you like the plugin or want to suggest a new features, feel free to drop a comment at the official plugin post on <a href="http://www.shambix.com/en/portfolio/wordpress-plugin-hotncold" rel="nofollow ugc">Shambix</a>.
Credits to the <a href="http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/components.html#labels-badges" rel="nofollow ugc">Twitter Bootstrap Framework</a> for the badges/labels’ CSS.

Hot'n'Cold

Hot'n'Cold shows a different colored badge for every post, depending if the post is "hot", "medium" or "cold", …

BE Stats vs Hot'n'Cold