Displaying and featuring items that are recently popular on your wordpress blog is generally more useful than showing the top viewed items of all time. Recently I’ve began to swap out my “Most Viewed” widgets with “Recently Popular” lists using the Recently Popular Plugin.
You can configure this plugin to show the recently popular pages, posts, or both. The plugin allows you to easily configure how far back it should check activity to generate your list – this allows you to set the widget to display the most popular posts over the past day, week, month, year, etc.
Recently Popular is super easy to setup and display in the sidebar. The author keeps it up to date. In 3 months since my first installation it hasn’t broken down on me yet (/me knocks on wood).
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