Nashita

Simple and clean styling widget for displaying popular posts with thumbnail and post view counter.
After installed the plugin, WP Popular Posts Widget will be in <code>Available Widgets</code> section named <code>Popular Posts</code>.
Optional settings for <code>Title</code> and <code>Number of Posts</code>.

WP Popular Posts Widget

Widget for displaying popular posts with thumbnail and post view counter.

Gorakh Shrestha

This plugin allow you to easily fetch popular post and get total view in post. Simply use <code>'orderby'=>'popularity'</code> in query string.
Add <code>'post','posts_per_page'=>-1,'orderby'=>'popularity'); 
$query = new WP_Query($args); 
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Features
<ol>
<li>Support the custom post type </li>
<li>Option page to allow popular post option in post type.(Setting > MPP Setting)</li>
<li>Can easily get total view for particular post using <code>get_view_number()</code>, <code>get_view_string()</code>. Function must be within loop. </li>
<li>To print the total view for particular post <code>the_view_number()</code> and <code>the_view_string()</code> both function are almost same but <code>the_view_string()</code> return with ‘views’ text.</li>
</ol>

WP Popular Posts Widget vs Popular post