Matt Rude

The Top Posts & Pages Widget displays your sites most popular posts & pages according to the WordPress.com stats plugin. The Jetpack plugin is required to use this plugin.
The Top Posts & Pages widget found on wordpress.com inspired this plugin, but this plugin allows more fine-tuning of what type of posts to show.
This plugin is fully localized and a POT file is included. If you would like to help translate this plugin, please contact me.
For support, please contact me in the <a href="https://wordpress.org/tags/top-posts-pages-widget#postform" rel="ugc">WordPress Forums</a>, if you find a bug or have a feature request, please create a ticket on the plugins <a href="https://github.com/mattrude/top-posts-pages/issues" rel="nofollow ugc">Github Issues</a> page.

shazdeh

The shortcode requires the widget ID, but no need to guess, the plugin generates the code for you. To override the widget title for a widget you can use the “title” parameter: 
 [widget id=”text-1″ title=”New title”] 
You can also hide the widget title entirely if desired: 
 [widget id=”text-1″ title=”0″]
Additional Parameters:
<ul>
<li>container_tag: the HTML tag to use for the widget container, default: <code>div</code></li>
<li>container_class: CSS classname added to the widget container, default: <code>widget %2$s</code> (Note: uses sprintf for variable substitution)</li>
<li>container_id: HTML ID attribute for the widget container, default: <code>%1$s</code> (Note: uses sprintf for variable substitution)</li>
<li>title_tag: HTML tag to use for the widget title wrapper, default: <code>h2</code></li>
<li>title_class: CSS classname for the widget title wrapper, default: <code>widgettitle</code></li>
</ul>

Widget Shortcode

I had tried another plugin to use a widget in the gutenberg block editor on a page, however that plugin had some issues so was not ideal.

Widget shortcode enabled me to add my widget by copying the generated shortcode to the shortcode block in the block editor, resulting in the widget being displayed perfectly on the page. 

Works perfectly with the block editor

Adds [widget] shortcode which enables you to output widgets anywhere you like.

Top Posts & Pages Widget vs Widget Shortcode