Vinhdd

This is a very simple, easy to use plugin which creates a widget that can be used to display Popular Posts, Related Posts, Featured Posts, Recent Posts with thumbnails based on the number of comments. Users can choose how many posts they want to show in the widget settings.
Features
<ol>
<li>Post status option.</li>
<li>Shortcode feature.</li>
<li>Display by date, comment count or random.</li>
<li>Display thumbnails, with customizable size and alignment.</li>
<li>Display excerpt, with customizable length.</li>
<li>Display from all, specific or multiple category.</li>
<li>Post type option.</li>
<li>Multiple widgets.</li>
<li>Custom CSS.</li>
</ol>
Shortcode
Don’t want to worry about HTML tags? You can use a shortcode in your posts, pages to dispaly Launchpad Article Feedback.
The shortcode to use is <code>[launchpad_popular_posts]</code>, <code>[launchpad_related_posts]</code>, <code>[launchpad_recent_posts]</code>.
Examples
<pre><code>[launchpad_popular_posts]
[launchpad_related_posts]
[launchpad_recent_posts]
</code></pre>
<h3>License</h3>
Good news, this plugin is free for everyone! Since it’s released under the GPL, you can use it free of charge on your personal or commercial blog. But if you enjoy this plugin, you can thank me and leave a rating for the time I’ve spent writing and supporting this plugin. And We really don’t want to know how many hours of my life this plugin has already eaten 😉
<h3>Translations</h3>
The plugin comes with various translations, please refer to the <a href="https://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress_in_Your_Language" title="Installing WordPress in Your Language" rel="nofollow ugc">WordPress Codex</a> for more information about activating the translation. If you want to help to translate the plugin to your language, please have a look at the wp-article-feedback.pot file which contains all definitions and may be used with a <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/" rel="nofollow ugc">gettext</a> editor like <a href="http://www.poedit.net/" rel="nofollow ugc">Poedit</a> (Windows).

Launchpad Popular Posts

This is a very simple, easy to use plugin which creates a widget that can be used to display Popular Posts, Related Posts, Featured Posts, Recent Post …

sajid hussain

Display Most popular posts or most viewed posts on your blog using widget in sidebar. 
Plugin offers a wide range of settings to customize the layout of your widget. 
Plugin also supports custom post types
Layout Options
<ul>
<li>select post type </li>
<li>give number of posts to show</li>
<li>show/hide thumbnail</li>
<li>thumbnail position top/left</li>
<li>show/hide post author</li>
<li>show/hide post date</li>
<li>show/hide post tags</li>
<li>show/hide post categories</li>
<li>show/hide post number of views</li>
<li>show/hide number of views</li>
<li>editable VIEWS text</li>
</ul>

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