Once you have a relatively established blog. Hopefully you will start having some posts become more popular than others. I’m sure they are all great! To you anyway.. :p

I really like the idea of people been confronted with other potentially useful posts. So a content widget showing most popular posts works great. If you have a self hosted wordpress blog like mine. Then you should definitely check out the Jetpack Post Views widget. Although not very customizable. It does get the job done quick.

Alternatively, you can use the W4 Post List plugin that allows you to create a fully customizable look with some CSS. In my case I wanted to thumbnail to be larger!

One very important secret is in the using the

jetpack-post-views

meta key to sort your posts by view count! Wow, took me a while to find that one!

Then its just a matter of inserting the widget

And Voila! Looks a lot nicer and you can make it look like whatever you want.