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.
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Jack Hughes's wry observations of the tech industry from the bottom looking up.
[...] 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 amBefore, I used to add this Popularity Contest widget manually to my template functions.php, thanks for yours plugin, now I don’t have to
Quote | Posted November 7, 2007, 12:31 am@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 amGreat 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@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[...] 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 amExcellent! Thank you for this!
Quote | Posted January 11, 2008, 3:32 amThanks much, very helpful little widget.
Quote | Posted May 13, 2008, 9:18 pm[...] 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