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Popularity Contest Widget

Popularity Contest is a great Wordpress plugin for displaying your most popular blog posts. It powers the Teapot Highlights over on the right hand side of this post. :)

One thing missing from Popularity Contest is a widget. We created one for this blog, so we thought we may as well share it for everybody else to use too.

Place the Popularity Contest Widget in your plugin directory (remember to strip the .txt off the end) then go to Presentation > Widgets. You can then drag ‘n drop the widget into your sidebar.

You can edit the title and the number of posts to display. Don’t forget to press the Save Changes button.

Popularity: 36% [?]

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This entry was posted on Monday, October 29th, 2007 @ 4:19 pm on the category General. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

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9 Comments

  1. JMorris Online » Blog Archive » Superficial Blogging - Are you adding value or just scratching the surface? says:

    [...] style is for a particular subject. The recent addition of the Popularity Contest plugin and widget help identify posts that go over well with readers, which is essential in determining the style I [...]

    Quote | Posted November 4, 2007, 5:02 am
  2. poer says:

    Before, I used to add this Popularity Contest widget manually to my template functions.php, thanks for yours plugin, now I don’t have to :D

    Quote | Posted November 7, 2007, 12:31 am
  3. Jack Hughes says:

    @poer - great. I’m pleased you’re getting some value out of it. No need for us all to go around implementing exactly the same stuff all of the time. :)

    Quote | Posted November 7, 2007, 10:31 am
  4. ses5909 (subscribed to comments) says:

    Great job Jack. I’m considering turning a couple of my plugins into widgets. Hopefully its not too difficult!

    Quote | Posted November 20, 2007, 8:43 am
  5. Jack says:

    @ses5909 - I can’t take credit I’m afraid. Dean wrote it who co-owns OPENXTRA. Widgets aren’t difficult so I doubt you’ll have too many problems with it.

    Quote | Posted November 20, 2007, 12:10 pm
  6. Popularity Contest Widget Plugin | WordPress [at] mimpikami [dot] com says:

    [...] to OpenXtra yg beberapa waktu lalu merilis Plugin Popularity Contest Widget, proses penambahan secara manual ini, sekarang tidak diperlukan [...]

    Quote | Posted November 26, 2007, 9:16 am
  7. Erik says:

    Excellent! Thank you for this!

    Quote | Posted January 11, 2008, 3:32 am
  8. braddock says:

    Thanks much, very helpful little widget.

    Quote | Posted May 13, 2008, 9:18 pm
  9. Fix for fatal errors in Popularity Contest plugin for WordPress 2.5.1 | Boom!Atomic says:

    [...] my search for a fix I also found a great widget for Popularity Contest.  Just upload and activate it and you have a nice popular posts widget to stick in your sidebar.  [...]

    Quote | Posted May 15, 2008, 4:47 pm

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