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smartile · 02-09-2008, 02:34 PM

A quick question for the techies here....

Which WordPress plugin would you suggest to use on a blog to indicate the, 'Most Popular Posts' in the sidebar?

Any feedback would be helpful. Thank-you.

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Joely · 02-09-2008, 03:24 PM

I was going to say you can do it within the "Presentation" section - there's a widget you can add to the sidebar with "Top Posts" but then I realised you might well be using the wordpress software but not actually writing on their site. I don't know if it applies in the same way.

jamestl2 · 02-11-2008, 01:30 AM

Depends on what you mean by "most popular posts", you could just create a widget with the ones that have the most comments, views, etc. and add them personally.

Or else you could just check out one of these plugins:
OWA Most Popular | Karim Vaes
WP-Plugin MintPopularPostsWP « Turmsegler

MartialDev · 02-11-2008, 07:28 AM

Stephen, look on my website to see the Wordpress "Popularity Contest" plugin in action.

smartile · 02-11-2008, 01:45 PM

thanks everyone - I appreciate the links.

MartialDev - cool blog,

Stephen Martile — Personal Development Made Simple

jpfieber · 03-27-2008, 07:18 PM

I use the WP-PostViews plugin to show how many views each page has. I then have my 'Popular Posts' listed in my sidebar, based on how many views the page has. See it in action at my ITsVISTA site.

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Joely Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 517	I was going to say you can do it within the "Presentation" section - there's a widget you can add to the sidebar with "Top Posts" but then I realised you might well be using the wordpress software but not actually writing on their site. I don't know if it applies in the same way.

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jamestl2 Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: What of it? Posts: 724	Depends on what you mean by "most popular posts", you could just create a widget with the ones that have the most comments, views, etc. and add them personally. Or else you could just check out one of these plugins: OWA Most Popular \| Karim Vaes WP-Plugin MintPopularPostsWP « Turmsegler

02-11-2008, 07:28 AM	#4 (permalink)
MartialDev Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 375	Stephen, look on my website to see the Wordpress "Popularity Contest" plugin in action.

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smartile Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 426	thanks everyone - I appreciate the links. MartialDev - cool blog, Stephen Martile — Personal Development Made Simple

03-27-2008, 07:18 PM	#6 (permalink)
jpfieber Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Milwaukee, WI, USA Posts: 63	I use the WP-PostViews plugin to show how many views each page has. I then have my 'Popular Posts' listed in my sidebar, based on how many views the page has. See it in action at my ITsVISTA site.

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