Nick Adams

Revault Media

<p>This easy to use WordPress plugin is designed to add a new feature for theme developers. Used on many of my own websites as well as those of my clients, the plugin allows me to quickly add a collection of popular posts to any theme element.</p>
<p>The plugin can easily be used by website owners as a WordPress Widget, adding lists of posts to the Sidebar of a WordPress website.</p>
<h4>About the plugin</h4>
<p>More advanced users can also call the functionality of the plugin from a WordPress shortcode by adding the code <code>[thisismyurl_easy_popular_posts]</code> to any Post or Page within WordPress.</p>
<p>Finally, theme authors may also take advantage of the plugin by calling the functionality directly from theme files with the code <code>thisismyurl_easy_popular_posts();</code>.</p>
<p>This plugin was originally authored by Christopher Ross.</p>
<p>Questions about this plugin can be posted to the WordPress.org forums at https://wordpress.org/plugins/easy-popular-posts/, or to the Issues tab at the GitHub https://github.com/thisismyurl/easy-popular-posts repository for the plugin.</p>
<p>This plugin is currently available in:</p>
<ul>
<li>English</li>
<li>French</li>
<li>German</li>
</ul>
<h3>Updates</h3>
<p>Updates to this plugin will be posted to the GitHub repository for testing prior to updates on WordPress.org, if you’d like to help make this plugin better please consider taking part in regular code reviews of releases at the GitHub repository.</p>
<h3>Donations</h3>
<p>Open source software such as this free WordPress plugin only work through the hard work of community members, volunteering their time or resources to make the software freely available. If you would like to show your support for this software, please consider donating towards the development effort.</p>
<p>If you can’t contribute to the plugin in any other way, please consider translating it to your local language.</p>


Easy Popular Posts

An easy to use WordPress function to add popular posts to any theme.

<p>This is a simple popular posts WordPress widget for your blog. Add and day interval to specify when the posts are considered popular, the default is 365 (one year) you can also filter your post by category. Enjoy!! and please support the plugin. :@)</p>
<ul>
<li>Languages http://xparkmedia.com/plugins/popular-widget/#languages</li>
<li>Support http://xparkmedia.com/support/plugin/popular-widget/</li>
</ul>
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Day range</li>
<li>Disable tabs.</li>
<li>Title length.</li>
<li>Count Display.</li>
<li>Excerpt option.</li>
<li>Excerpt length.</li>
<li>Category filter.</li>
<li>Display thumbnails.</li>
<li>Display recent comments.</li>
<li>Calculate visits or page views.</li>
<li>Custom field options for view counts.</li>
</ul>


Popular Widget

The plugin still works as expected but the support doesn't seem to be very responsive: Last reply on the Wordpress forum over 1 year ago, on the recommended official forum over 2 months ago.
More activity would be great since there are not many comparable alternatives.



Nice plugin, and some support would be great

Display the most commented or most viewed posts in a tabbed widget, filter the post by date range or by category. It also includes a tags tab.

Easy Popular Posts vs Popular Widget