Title: Simple Popular Posts
Author: jimmysun
Published: <strong>May 16, 2010</strong>
Last modified: May 16, 2010

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This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**.
It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

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# Simple Popular Posts

 By [jimmysun](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jimmysun/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/simple-popular-posts.zip)

 * [Details](https://scn.wordpress.org/plugins/simple-popular-posts/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://scn.wordpress.org/plugins/simple-popular-posts/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://scn.wordpress.org/plugins/simple-popular-posts/#installation)
 * [Development](https://scn.wordpress.org/plugins/simple-popular-posts/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/simple-popular-posts/)

## Description

Simple Popular Posts is a plugin that creates a widget for you to put on your sidebar.
The widget shows the most popular posts on your blog, based on the number of comments.

It is a very simple and basic plugin. It only has 3 options:
 – the widget title–
the number of posts you want to show – whether you want to show the number of comments
or not

Based on the Most Popular Posts plugin by Wes Goodhoofd (http://www.wesg.ca/2008/
08/wordpress-widget-most-popular/)

## Installation

 1. Upload the folder simple-popular-posts to your WordPress plugin directory.
 2. Activate the plugin from the plugin panel.
 3. Go to your widget setting page.
 4. Drag the Simple Popular Posts widget to your sidebar.
 5. You can customize the widget.

Usually, a wordpress theme uses the

<

h3> tag to display the widget title, but to match your theme’s design you can edit
the tag on line 32 in the plugin’s php file

## Reviews

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## Contributors & Developers

“Simple Popular Posts” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ jimmysun ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jimmysun/)

[Translate “Simple Popular Posts” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/simple-popular-posts)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/simple-popular-posts/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/simple-popular-posts/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/simple-popular-posts/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/simple-popular-posts/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

1.0
 * Initial release

## Meta

 *  Version **1.0**
 *  Last updated **16 years ago**
 *  Active installations **10+**
 *  WordPress version ** 2.8 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **2.9.2**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-popular-posts/)
 * Tags
 * [comments](https://scn.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/comments/)[most popular](https://scn.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/most-popular/)
   [most popular posts](https://scn.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/most-popular-posts/)
   [popular posts](https://scn.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/popular-posts/)[widget](https://scn.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/widget/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://scn.wordpress.org/plugins/simple-popular-posts/advanced/)

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## Contributors

 *   [ jimmysun ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jimmysun/)

## Support

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 [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/simple-popular-posts/)

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