- Click Pencil Icon > Manage [Site/Group/Blog] Theme > Edit this Page
- Select and place the Blog - Post List widget on the page
- Click on in the widget menu bar. The configuration dialog appears.
- In the configuration dialog window, make the the following changes:
- Change the Widget Title to a name such as "Popular Blogs"
- Select List View for the View Detail
- Select Most Viewed for Sort Posts By
- Additionally, you can elect to:
- In User Query Type, pull from all users, the logged in user, or the current user's posts
- In Select group/blog to pull content from, select a specific blog or a particular group and possibly its subgroups. (The option defaults to the current group.)
- In Tags to filter posts by, filter by any particular tags
- In Excerpt Size, enter the number of characters to display in the post excerpt. Note that if you enter 0, the configuration uses its default, 420
- In Number of posts to display, enter how many blog posts you want in the popular posts list.
- Click Save in the configuration dialog.
- Click Publish when complete.