Top Posts on Video

One of the nice “extras” on Significant Figures is a plugin that lets you see what other visitors are reading the most. You can get to the top posts list by following the, well, Top Posts link in the menu bar. The list is generated automatically by a neat little plugin from Wordpress guru Alex King called Popularity Contest.

According to Alex, Popularity Contest keeps a count of your post, category and archive views, comments, trackbacks, etc. and uses this data to work out which posts are the most popular. A numerical value is assigned to each type of access and these are then used to create a popularity score for each post. The plugin is quite editable so if you don’t get many comments or trackbacks you could change the weighting so that they don’t skew the list in quite the same way.

Here’s a fairly comprehensive review of Popularity Contest to watch before you give it a try on your own blog.