Arefly

<p>Need some boxs to make your post better?</p>
<p>Now you can use this plugin to add Useful Boxes to your blog!</p>
<p>You just need to type the shortcode <code>[box]</code> in to your post and everything will done for you!</p>
<p>For shortcode usage please visit “Dashboard” -> “Tools” -> “Shortcode Box”</p>
<p>Live Demo: <a href="http://demo.arefly.com/wordpress/shortcode-box/" rel="nofollow ugc">Click Here</a></p>
<p>中文介紹請看<a href="http://www.arefly.com/shortcode-box/" rel="nofollow ugc">這裏</a></p>
<h4>Translators</h4>
<ul>
<li>Chinese, Simplified (zh_CN) – <a href="http://www.arefly.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Arefly</a></li>
<li>Chinese, Traditional (zh_TW) – <a href="http://www.arefly.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Arefly</a></li>
<li>English (en_US) – <a href="http://www.arefly.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Arefly</a></li>
</ul>
<p>If you have created your own language pack, or have an update of an existing one, you can send <a href="https://codex.wordpress.org/Translating_WordPress" rel="nofollow ugc">gettext PO and MO files</a> to <a href="http://www.arefly.com/about/" rel="nofollow ugc">Arefly</a> so that I can bundle it into Shortcode Box. You can download the latest <a href="https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/shortcode-box/trunk/lang/shortcode-box.pot" rel="nofollow ugc">POT file</a>.</p>


Shortcode Box

Add Useful Boxes to your blog simply by shortcode.

<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.

Shortcode Box vs Popular Widget