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This plugin allows you to show your most popular posts as a widget on your blog!
<h4>Main Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Time Range – You can choose a specific time range (today, last 7 days, last 30 days, all time) to sort youre posts and know the most popular of them within that period</li>
<li>Flexibel Display Settings – How many posts to display? Whats the posts title length must be? Should views, comments or dates displayed in every post in list? To all this quastions you can answer witch help of flexible widget settings!</li>
<li>Display a thumbnail of your posts!</li>
<li>Categories Filter – Should youre posts displays from all categories or only from specific one?</li>
<li>Easy to Change CSS Styles – ppw.css file in youre full possession. Do with him all what you want!</li>
<li>Shortcode and Template tag support – use the [ppw] shortcode or ppw_get_popular_posts() template tag to showcase your most popular posts. For detail information, please refer to the <a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/popularity-posts-widget/faq/" rel="ugc">faq section</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h3>To-Do List</h3>
This is the list of some features, that I planning to add in next versions of plugin. Please <a href="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=GSE37FC4Y7CEY" rel="nofollow ugc">donate</a> to help me make all this things.
<ul>
<li>New styles for plugin.</li>
<li>Unique visitors filter.</li>
<li>Compatibility with caching plugins (such as WP Super Cache/W3 Total Cache).</li>
<li>Compatibility for external images.</li>
</ul>
If you have some other suggestions you can mail me to mih.barinov at gmail dot com.

Popularity Posts Widget

With help of this plugin you can display the most popular posts on your blog.

OTWthemes

Sometimes WordPress themes come with very limited blog options in terms of layout variation, content re-arrangement, etc.
Blog Manager for WordPress adds tons of blog functionality to your WordPress based website.
Check on the Blog Manager Light: <a href="http://otwthemes.com/demos/1ts/?item=Blog%20Manager%20Light&utm_source=wp.org&utm_medium=page&utm_content=demo&utm_campaign=bm" rel="nofollow ugc">Demo site</a> | <a href="http://otwthemes.com/online-documentation-blog-manager-light/?utm_source=wp.org&utm_medium=page&utm_content=docs&utm_campaign=bm" rel="nofollow ugc">Documentation page</a>
Create as many blog post lists as you like. This plugin comes with variety of templates to choose from. Select list content, modify layout and style your list to get the content and the look you want. Place your lists anywhere in your site by using the list’s shortcode or a widget.
Templates
<ul>
<li>Grid – Blog 1 col</li>
<li>Grid – Blog 4 col</li>
<li>Image Left – blog 1 col</li>
<li>Widget Style – Image Left</li>
<li>Timeline</li>
<li>Slider </li>
<li>Carousel 3 columns</li>
</ul>
Select and re-arrange list item’s content
For each blog posts list you can choose to show or hide the following content. You can also re-arrange it. It is all drag and drop, easy!
<ul>
<li>Title</li>
<li>Media</li>
<li>Meta data</li>
<li>Excerpt text</li>
<li>Continue reading</li>
</ul>
Media Types
Select media types for your blog posts
<ul>
<li>Image</li>
<li>Slider</li>
<li>Youtube</li>
<li>Vimeo</li>
<li>Soundcloud</li>
</ul>
Add a list in your site
Once you have created a list you can add it everywhere in your site:
<ul>
<li>In page/post content area (WYSIWYG editor)</li>
<li>In template files</li>
<li>In a sidebar</li>
</ul>
Every list has a shortcode you can use to add the list in a page/post content area or in a template file by using the do_shortcode WordPress function. The plugin comes with a widget that can be used to add blog posts list in a sidebar.
Styling
Style your list using the Custom CSS class name.
Translation/Localization
This plugin comes Localization/Internationalization ready. It is following WordPress I18n standards.
Full version of the plugin
<blockquote>
Upgrade to the Pro version of this plugin including tons of more features, regular updates and premium support:
 <a href="https://1.envato.market/c/1246358/275988/4415?subId1=bm&subId2=2020&subId3=https%3A%2F%2Fcodecanyon.net%2Fitem%2Fblog-manager-for-wordpress%2F9982292&u=https%3A%2F%2Fcodecanyon.net%2Fitem%2Fblog-manager-for-wordpress%2F9982292" rel="nofollow ugc">Blog Manager</a> | 
 <a href="http://otwthemes.com/demos/1ts/redirect.php?item=Blog%20Manager&utm_source=wp.org&utm_medium=page&utm_content=upgrade&utm_campaign=bm" rel="nofollow ugc">Demo site</a>
</blockquote>
Some of the features:
<ul>
<li>20+ ready to use templates</li>
<li>Load more pagination, Infinite scroll</li>
<li>List items Border and Background options</li>
<li>Social icons</li>
<li>Blog list title and link</li>
<li>Click on image and title lightbox option</li>
<li>15 hover effects </li>
<li>Meta Elements and Order </li>
<li>Styling interface </li>
<li>Translation/Localization .po/.mo files ready to use</li>
<li>Support and free updates.</li>
</ul>

Blog Manager Light

Add tons of blog functionality to your WordPress based website.

Popularity Posts Widget vs Blog Manager Light