LordPretender

<p>Similar to the original native one, this plugin let you define the range of stats to retrieve.<br />
Also you will be able to add the category name of the post.</p>
<p>Finally, this widget will only display posts (and not pages too).<br />
This plugin read the top 100 of posts/pages and keep only the X first POSTS (X = number defined in the widget parameters). So, you can have less posts than requested.</p>
<p>Jetpack is required to work.<br />
A wordpress account and your blog must be linked.</p>
<p>You can find a demo here : http://www.spoils.fr/<br />
The widget is named “Articles populaires” on the sidebar.</p>


Jetpack Popular Posts

Using Jetpack stats, this widget will display the most popular posts.

alek

<p>Archives widget that make your monthly/daily archives look like a calendar on the sidebar. If you have a lot of archives that takes a lot of space on your sidebar this widget is for you. Display your archives as a compact calendar, entirely customizable with CSS.</p>
<h4>**PLEASE FEEDBACK**</h4>
<p>I’m alone to test this plugin before release and I can’t test everything with particular configurations or on different versions of WordpPress, <strong>your feedback is precious.</strong></p>
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Theme Editor GUI (external tool)</li>
<li>Displays monthly archives as a compact year calendar</li>
<li>Displays daily archives as a compact month calendar</li>
<li>Show/hide monthly post count</li>
<li>8 themes included (with SCSS files)</li>
<li>2 Custom themes that keep your CSS style even after the plugin update</li>
<li>Different theme for each widget</li>
<li>Show widget with previous/current/next or last available month</li>
<li>Category select. Show post only from selected categories</li>
<li>Filter Archives page by categories you set in the widget</li>
<li>Custom post_type partial* support</li>
<li>Entirely customizable with CSS</li>
<li>.PO/.MO Localisation English/Français + OUTDATED: [Deutsch, Español, Portugues, Simplified Chinese, Serbo-Croatian]</li>
<li>jQuery animated with possibility to use your own JS code.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Not just a widget</strong>, if your theme does not support widgets, you can use this calendar by calling its <strong>function</strong>:</p>
<pre><code>archive_calendar();
</code></pre>
<p>you can also configure it:</p>
<pre><code>$defaults = array(
    'next_text' => '˃', //text showing on the next year button, can be empty or HTML to use with Font Awesome for example.
    'prev_text' => '˂', //just like next_text but for previous year button.
    'post_count' => true, //show the number of posts for each month
    'month_view' => true, //show months instead of years archives, false by default.
    'month_select' => 'default', // shows the last month available with at least one post. ('prev', 'next', 'current').
    'different_theme' => 0, // set 1 (true) if you want to set a different theme for this widget
    'theme' => null, // theme 'name' if 'different_theme' == true
    'categories' => null, // array() -> list of categories IDs to show. array(1,2,34)
    'post_type' => null // array() -> list of post types to show. array('post', 'movies')
);
archive_calendar($args);
</code></pre>
<p><strong>Custom taxonomies are not supported. If your custom post_type post has no common category with post it will not be shown in the archives</strong></p>
<h4>ADDON</h4>
<p><strong>Popover Addon for Archives Calendar Widget</strong><br />
<a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/arcw-popover-addon/" rel="ugc">ARCW Popover Addon</a></p>
<h4>ARCW THEME EDITOR</h4>
<p><a href="http://arcw.alek.be/" rel="nofollow ugc">Create your own theme for the calendar</a></p>
<h4>Notes</h4>
<p>Please use the Support section to report issues. <strong>No support will be provided via email.</strong></p>


Archives Calendar Widget

Great!

Archives widget that makes your monthly/daily archives look like a calendar on the sidebar.

Jetpack Popular Posts vs Archives Calendar Widget