Chris Buck

This plugin requires the WP-PostViews plugin to be installed and setup to work correctly. (https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-postviews/)
This plugin displays a widget in the sidebar with the most recently viewed posts over the last 2 days, the number of times they were viewed, a link to each, and images corresponding to whether they were “hot” posts or not (calculated as a percentage of the most viewed post).

Jonathan Daggerhart

This plugin lets you create new WP queries as widgets and use shortcodes for queries on your pages. It also allows you to override the way category and tag pages display.
Query Wrangler’s interface is highly intuitive way to create queries and will be second nature for any Drupal Views user.
This plugin will bring extreme flexibility to WordPress users with its ability to create custom queries using the WP_Query class with a user interface.
Supports:
<ul>
<li>Most post data, including meta fields</li>
<li>Taxonomy data</li>
<li>Advanced Custom Fields</li>
<li>Custom Content Type Manager</li>
<li>Some exposed filters</li>
</ul>
Some examples of how you would use this plugin include:
<ul>
<li>Create a list posts with featured images</li>
<li>Create a list of pages or posts within a specific category or tag</li>
<li>Create an image gallery</li>
<li>Modify the way your category pages look</li>
</ul>

Query Wrangler

Query Wrangler provides an intuitive interface for creating complex WP queries as shortcodes and widgets. UI based on Drupal Views.

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