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Popularity Contest

Popularity Contest is a WordPress plugin that keeps track of activity on your blog and calculates a popularity percentage for each post and page.

The popularity display you see:

Popularity: 27% [?]

is the rank of that post or page compared to the other posts and pages on the site.

Since page view counts, etc. are cumulative, newer posts will generally have lower popularity values than older posts. This, of course, evens out over time.

The values for different events (page views, feed views, comments, etc.) are configurable on a per-site basis, so each site may rank their content differently.

The Popularity Contest plugin is available on my WordPress Plugins page.

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  1. spacer toby
    View 16 hours ago

    Alex,
    Installed the plug-in last night and have been very pleasently surprised with it. I love being able to get a glimpse of what people are reading on my site.

    Thanks for your work and have a great weekend!
    Toby

  2. spacer Dean
    View 6 hours ago

    Installed today and it works like a charm. Thanks! I’ll be interested to see how it works over a month, six months, etc.

  3. spacer Saaga
    View 10 hours ago

    Hi!
    I just installed the plug-in and it seems to be just what I was looking for.

    Thanks for your good work. Merry Christmas.

  4. spacer AndreiO.
    View 5 hours ago

    Hi Alex,

    I just want to thank you very much for this plug-in and for share-it. Both are great …

    I found this from the new [?] link and I have a small suggestion. I think this page should be more visible … a little better structured.

    All the best and Merry Christmas!

  5. spacer Thomas Cayne
    View 18 hours ago

    This is a very wonderful service. I’m really surprised at the results. It makes my blog seem more professionally designed. Which isn’t so. Thanks for your creativity, Alex.

  6. spacer ck
    View 9 hours ago

    that’s a great plug-in,thank you.

  7. spacer Duncan
    View 19 hours ago

    Fantastic plugin, nice idea.

    Thanks very much!

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    View 13 hours ago

    very nice plugin, gives you great feedback on what the readers like and don´t like. Great tool to help improve your blog!

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  17. spacer Devynn
    View 15 hours ago

    you guys totally rock my sock!!!!!!!!

  18. spacer Safar.K.Salim
    View 4 hours ago

    Cute plugin. Thanks 4 ur great service yaar.

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  20. spacer Thompson
    View 17 hours ago

    hey, i think having to register would be a great idea. Its a secure way to know who is going to the site.

  21. spacer Andreas
    View 8 hours ago

    very cool plugin. i like it a lot. thank you.

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  23. spacer Niko Neugebauer
    View 5 hours ago

    Very nice, i am certainly going to experiment with this one =O)
    Is it possible to use it only internally (like admin-only) ?

  24. spacer IndoDX
    View 11 hours ago

    I used it and this really nicely Plugins…

    I love it, thanks Alex spacer

  25. spacer Anghus
    View 20 hours ago

    Thanks Alex. This is just what I was looking for!

  26. spacer Kate
    View 5 hours ago

    Thank you! It’s really useful to be able to see which posts people enjoy the most.

  27. spacer Vetala
    View 10 hours ago

    Installed this plugin last night to see what it did and WOW! What a fantastic idea! This plugin is going to prove very useful when I launch my personal blog here soon.

    Thanks!

  28. spacer Michael Cockrum
    View 7 hours ago

    I really like this plugin! Good job on it!

  29. spacer Savitha
    View 8 hours ago

    Great plugin. Thanks!

  30. spacer Dr Savi
    View 17 hours ago

    Alex, Thanks for all your dedication, re: developing these excellent plugins.
    They really do reinforce my occassional thought that maybe hosting your own blogs is better than using standard blogging engines. Clearly, if one has the time then a more valued set of interactive tools can help us humble bloggers!

  31. spacer Nathan P.
    View 23 hours ago

    I love this plug-in! Nice work Alex. It’s been on my site since day 1, and it’s really good to see what my few visitors are interested in.

  32. spacer xyiry
    View 2 hours ago

    This plugin is very..very …very useful… i can keep track what are the hot topics in my blog.. without this plugin…normally i will just guess based on comments…

  33. spacer Stephan
    View 18 hours ago

    Thank for the plugin. Install was very easy. I put it on a my testblog and it works fine.

  34. spacer Anonymous
    View 22 hours ago

    thxxxxx

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