 where you can enable some more technical features that affect performance.
All in all, it’s quite flexible and easy to use!
After WordPress Popular Posts, Top 10 is the second most popular free option at WordPress.org.
It lets you display your most popular posts by daily traffic or overall traffic (there’s no comment popularity option, though — you’ll need a different plugin for that).
Top 10 works with regular blog posts, as well as any custom post types you’re using.
Finally, Top 10 also comes with some performance features, such as the ability to cache popular post output and periodically ‘clean’ your database by deleting database data that’s more than 90 days old.
Top 10 also lets you display popular posts anywhere on your site using either a widget or shortcode.
Jetpack is a plugin from Automattic (makers of WordPress.com) that offers a whole suite of features. One of those features is… you guessed it: Popular posts.
I wouldn’t recommend using it if all you want is popular posts, but if you like the other features in Jetpack, then the all-in-one approach may be convenient. Learn more in our Jetpack guide/review.
One downside of Jetpack is you have less flexibility for defining what a popular post is — it lets you display your most liked posts or the posts that have received the most traffic over the past 48 hours by default. If you have some tech chops, though, you can use a filter to define a custom date range.
Other than that, Jetpack is super easy to use and the output looks good right out of the box.
To get started with Jetpack, you’ll first need to run through the Jetpack setup process and connect it to your WordPress.com account (Jetpack will try to get you to sign up for a paid plan, but you just need the free plan for popular posts).
Once you get that out of the way, you can activate the popular posts functionality by using the new Top Posts & Pages (Jetpack) widget.
While you do get those nice looks, you lose a lot of the customization options you get with the other plugins. So, tradeoffs!
Stylish Popular Posts is definitely the simplest option on this list.
Once you install and activate the plugin, all you have to do is add the widget where you want your popular posts to appear.
So, if you like that tabbed approach, that’s a big reason to choose WP Tab Widget over the others.
the order of the tabs.
There are no settings to configure — as soon as you activate the plugin, you’ll go straight to adding the widget.
Note: WP Tab Widget wasn’t working with the theme I used in the other screenshots — that may be something to consider. It worked fine once I went back to the Twenty Seventeen theme, though.
Finally, there’s Display Posts, a free plugin from Bill Erickson — a pretty well-known WordPress developer.
So, if that’s how you want to define ‘popular’, this is a good option. Just be aware that there isn’t an option to display posts by the actual traffic they receive.
Beyond that, the plugin comes with lots of shortcode parameters that you can use to target posts from specific categories, authors and so on. You can also choose whether or not to include thumbnails, excerpt summaries and other content.
There’s no settings area with Display Posts. Instead, you’ll do everything by using the plugin’s shortcode and many shortcode parameters.
You can then place this shortcode anywhere on your site, including a widget in your sidebar.
If you want to display posts by social shares, you can follow these instructions.
Displaying your popular content is a great way to get your best content in front of visitors and keep them on your site.
With the popular posts plugins on this list, you’ll be able to do that for a variety of different ‘popularity’ metrics, including traffic, comments and social shares.
If you want the most flexibility, I’d say go with WordPress Popular Posts or Top 10. Stylish Popular Posts is good if you like its looks, while WP Tab Widget offers the unique tabbed approach.
Finally, Jetpack is great if you want the other Jetpack features, and Display Posts lets you order posts by social shares, which is helpful.
Used any of these popular posts plugins? Thoughts?
I’m still stuck. Can you tell a Custom CSS code for “Recent Posts Extended” Widget that displays the title of the post within the Thumbnail with a blue background and a hover effect?
'I'm a Celebrity...' cast unveiled
Series premieres June 1N.
As reported, previously cast former Illinois Gov. Rob Blagojevich had to pull out of the show after his request to travel to Costa Rica where “Celebrity” will be shot was turned down by a judge.
However, NBC and the show's producer Granada America on Friday said that they are still trying to find ways to keep him on "Celebrity."
Starting June 1 with a two-hour premiere, “Celebrity!" will be stripped over four weeks, airing Mondays through Thursdays (8-9 p.m.) for the first three weeks and Monday through Wednesday for the fourth week, including the finale on Wednesday, June 24 (8-9 p.m.).
MTV, which also is involved in the casting of “Celebrity,” will air a marathon of the week’s episodes each Sunday, beginning June 7. The recaps will include never-before-seen footage and commentary from cast members in real time.“All truth passes through three stages: First, it is ridiculed; second, it is violently opposed; and third, it is accepted as self-evident.” Or "this is worthless nonsense; this is an interesting, but perverse, point of view; this is true, but quite unimportant; I always said so." I would like to say that I was always on board with this but I wasn't. In the eighties as a young adult, I too was hook line and sinker into the fat free diet.  Luckily for me, I soon acquired a few mentors that showed me the light about fat a long time ago.
Dr. Michael Colgan, Dr. Cory Holly, and Paul Chek all changed my line of thought in the early nineties. Fat is essential to our health. It is vital in every cell in our body building strong membranes, a precursor to many hormones, and our brain is comprised upwards of 60% from fat.  Most American's brains are in that state currently and people don't believe it to be true or just don't know it's occurring to them. In addition, fats act as carriers for important fat-soluble vitamins A, D, E, and K. Fats are needed for the conversion of carotene to vitamin A, for mineral absorption and more. We are starting to get into the "it is accepted as self-evident" part of our opening quote now.
Don’t wait for science to tell you what you should be doing for your health. I always say we forget about the big science project each and every one of us witness, and that is our life experiences. I personally don’t need a randomized, double blind, placebo control study to know what is working. In my 32 years as an adult, I have watched obesity, heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and autoimmune disorders, to name only a few, become epidemic in our society. That emphatically tells me that the fat free, cholesterol free, and everything in moderation is NOT working.
As my friend and mentor Cory Holly, ND says in his Costanza Principle “Do the opposite of conventional thinking with your health, and you will be healthier for it.” Use good science to help you along in this life, but don’t wait for it if what we have been doing for a millennium has been working. 

EghtesadOnline: Minister of Petroleum Bijan Zangeneh says Iran currently produces more than 3.8 million barrels per day (bpd) of crude oil, roughly the same production level before the 2012 sanctions.
The country exported 2.6 million bpd of oil and condensate in August as it kept on the the push to win back its market share, Zangeneh said in Tehran on Tuesday.
“During these years, the fall in oil production from offshore and eastern Karun fields has been compensated and daily production of oil since the start of the eleventh government (in 2013) has reached about 280,000 barrels from about 70,000 barrels,” PressTV quoted him as saying.
The current production, however, is not in any way proportional to the country’s reserves. Zangeneh said Iran is targeting a production capacity of about 4.8 million barrels per day in the sixth development plan (2016-21). This means Iran has to add 700,000 bpd to its overall output.
The oil fields in west Karoun, namely Yadavaran, Azadegan and Yaran, are among the top priority projects for development by Ministry of Petroleum. In January, the ministry announced 34 foreign oil and gas companies as qualified to take part in any upcoming tenders for exploration and production.
On Monday, Zangeneh said his ministry is concluding the financial aspects of about 10 deals with foreign oil and gas companies which he expected by be signed by March 20, 2018.
Iran’s oil and gas development projects need $200 billion worth of investment and Asian and European companies have been discussing various aspects for partnership under a new contract formula.
