Hey there hyrum, I wish I had asked the same question earlier, instead of searching the entire wordpress plugin database for an answer. But getting a quick answer in this support forum is rare.
I am currently developing a wordpress theme for my Static html site: http://www.Slennzer.com, basically working on keeping the same layout but making use of wordpress’s robust content management system. This had led me to face the same question you’re currently facing, so without a further ado, I recommend the following plugins:
1) To display the most recent posts, use the plugin by Nick Momrik:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/recent-posts/
2) For inserting the ‘Popular posts’ use the plugin by Héctor Cabrera:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-popular-posts/
3) To display the most discussed posts (most commented) use the plugin by Nick Momrik.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/most-commented/installation/
All three plugins have been tested on my local machine and work like a charm! Hopefully this should help you & other people out quite a bit or at the very least, point them towards the right direction!
The only draw back is, that you’ll need a pretty strong CSS stylesheet to hold these three elements together …which I am currently working on. ;D
But once you have got that in place, the end result would be fantastic!
All the best dude,
Signed!
Mr. Jayen Ratnani 🙂
I don’t know how to do that, and I would like to do it!
Any help for us?
Sure I have bookmarked this page and i will let you lot know as soon as i can. But right now, I a little bit busy working on my own theme & on top of that my HD crushed… arhhh! so I am trying to restore everything.
What i’ll probably do is simply upload the css files and hand out the codes you’ll need but i need some time…. best advice is to stay put here.
Give me a week or so and i should have it ready 🙂
