If you are a WordPress user you can show popular posts in your sidebar or below post and above post. Popular posts are based on visits and comments. Popular posts can drag attention of individual visitors because these posts are popular and get traffic form search engines, get comments. You can set time range for popular posts within years, months, weeks etc. You can control number of posts to show.
(1) WordPress Popular Posts:
It is a highly customizable plugin for popular posts. If you want you can set thumbnail for posts. It supports multi widget you can insert multiple instances of popular posts. It also supports short code. It is compatible with caching plugins, you can exclude categories.
You can set popular posts by comments, views, daily views etc.
(2) Recently popular posts:
This plugin is also very good and has many custom options. For popularity you can set time range form years to month, week, days and hours. If you set 1 month it will count page views for one month to decide posts popularity. You can enable category filtering. This plugin has also some formatting options.
(3) WordPress Popular Posts:
This plugin is based on WP-Stats plugin. The plugin comes with many customization options. It works with WP 3.0.
(4) Most Popular Posts:
This is a basic plugin for popular posts, it decides popularity of a post by comment numbers. You can put widget in sidebar or you can put a widget in post by inserting a code. You can also exclude categories.
(5) Popular posts:
This plugin shows popular posts based on page views, you can customize options in many ways.
(6) Easy Popular posts:
This plugin is very simple because this plugin has no customization option only you can place it on sidebar.
(7) Ranged Popular Posts:
This plugin is based on comments but you can set range with the posts are considered popular. You can set it to years, months, weeks.
(8) WP-Popular Posts Tool:
You can show most popular posts by comments. You can choose popular posts by category or tags.
Share with me which plugin you are using to show popular posts for your blog.
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What i like about adding popular posts plugins is that most of the time, the post inserted is through JavaScript and it can be customized to stand out so that more people will click on them thus increasing site traffic.
I have applied it to my website, thanks again. Sorry, a silly question, it can affect the speed of the website?