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<p>A very simple popular posts widget which displays posts by comment count (with featured image).</p>
<p>This is a very simple plugin which displays your posts by comment count when activated at your desired sidebar.<br />
It comes with a setting whether you’d like to display your post’s featured image or not and also be to adjust the width and height of it.</p>
<p>No CSS styling has been done and it is up to you to customize it.</p>
<p>Please write a review or rate if you like it! 🙂</p>
<h3>Upgrade</h3>
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<li>Use the plugin updater in WordPress or…</li>
<li>Delete the previous <code>my-popular-posts-widget</code> folder from the <code>/wp-content/plugins/</code> directory</li>
<li>Upload the new <code>my-popular-posts-widget</code> folder to the <code>/wp-content/plugins/</code> directory</li>
</ol>
<h3>Usage</h3>
<ol>
<li>Just install and activate.</li>
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My Popular Posts Widget

A very simple popular posts widget which displays posts by comment count (with featured image).

<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.

My Popular Posts Widget vs Popular Widget