pjgalbraith

<p>An advanced version of the WordPress Recent Posts widget allowing increased customization.</p>
<p>Features Include:</p>
<ul>
<li>Display post thumbnails, with customizable size.</li>
<li>Display post excerpt, author, comment count, and more. </li>
<li>Provides options to trim the number of characters in the title and excerpt.</li>
<li>Override the post order to order by; date modified, title, post ID, random, comment count etc.</li>
<li>Exclude or include specific posts, authors, tags, or categories.</li>
<li>Also includes a simple template parser so you can override the default output making custom styling easy.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Documentation</h3>
<p>See documentation at http://www.pjgalbraith.com/2011/08/recent-posts-plus/</p>


culplarry

<p>An easy to use WordPress function to add popular posts to any WordPress theme. You can also include the the list in a post using a shortcode [cool_popular_posts] or as a widget.</p>


cool Popular Post

A very easy to use WordPress function to add popular posts to any WordPress theme.

Recent Posts Plus vs cool Popular Post