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Author: Héctor Cabrera

Wordpress Popular Posts is a sidebar widget that displays the most popular posts on your blog. You can use it as a template tag, too!

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT: from version 2.0 and on, Wordpress Popular Posts requires at least Wordpress 2.8 in order to function correctly. If you are not running Wordpress 2.8 or can't update your blog right now, please don't upgrade to/install version 2.x!

WARNING: if you are upgrading from any version prior to 1.4.6, please update to 1.4.6 before moving to 2.x!

What's new

• Wordpress Popular Posts is now multi-widget capable! Install multiple instances of Wordpress Popular Posts on your sidebars, each with its own unique settings!
• Shortcode support! - from version 2.0, you can showcase your most popular posts on pages, too!
• WP-Cache and WP Super Cache are now supported! From version 2.0 and on, Wordpress Popular Posts is fully compatible with caching plugins!
• Category exclusion - Want to exclude certain categories from the listing? Use the Exclude Category option!
• WP-PostRatings support added! Show your visitors how your readers are rating your posts!
• Database improvements - Wordpress Popular Posts will now use a lot less space to cache your most popular posts!
• Template tags - Don't feel like using widgets? No problem! You can still embed your most popular entries on your theme using the get_mostpopular() template tag. Additionally, a new tag has been included on this release: wpp_gets_views(). For usage and instructions, please refer to the instalation section.
• Use your own layout! Control how your most popular posts are shown on your templates.
• You can now include a thumbnail of your posts! (see the FAQ section for technical requirements)

Other features

• Post excerpts feature is also available!
• Wordpress Popular Posts is localized! Languages included on this release: English (default) and Spanish. Wanna help with translations? See the FAQ section for more!
• Time Range - list your most popular posts within a specific time range (eg. today's popular posts, this week's popular posts, etc.)!
• Wordpress popular posts is highly customizable. You can set its title (or leave it blank if you don't want to use any), decide how many entries to show, whether to display or not comments count and/or pageviews for each entry listed, etc.
• List your posts either by comment count, views or average daily views. Sorted by comment count by default.
• You can also list those pages of your blog (About, Services, Archives, etc.) that are getting a lot of attention from your readers. Enabled by default.