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Most Popular Posts is a basic widget for your sidebar that creates a list of links to the top posts on your blog according to the number of comments on the post. You can customize many aspects of the plugin to fit in your blog.
Updates include including and excluding categories, reverse the order of comments and incorporation of WordPress widget standards.
For a complete list of the changes from each version, please visit <a href="http://www.wesg.ca/2008/08/wordpress-widget-most-popular/#changelog" rel="nofollow ugc">the plugin homepage</a>.
For examples and tips on using the plugin, please check <a href="http://www.wesg.ca/2008/08/wordpress-widget-most-popular/#examples" rel="nofollow ugc">the examples</a> on the plugin homepage.
<h4>Usage</h4>
Used exclusively as a widget at the current time.

Most Popular Posts

This is a very simple widget that displays a link to the top commented posts on your blog.

jimmysun

Simple Popular Posts is a plugin that creates a widget for you to put on your sidebar. The widget shows the most popular posts on your blog, based on the number of comments.
It is a very simple and basic plugin. It only has 3 options: 
– the widget title 
– the number of posts you want to show 
– whether you want to show the number of comments or not
Based on the Most Popular Posts plugin by Wes Goodhoofd (http://www.wesg.ca/2008/08/wordpress-widget-most-popular/)

Simple Popular Posts

Creates a very simple and basic widget for your sidebar to display most popular posts on your blog based on the number of comments only.

Most Popular Posts vs Simple Popular Posts