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Since Mint knows what pages are popular, a pepper would be the perfect way to produce a cross-blog platform list of the most popular posts to include on your site that you could then include on your blog via a server side include.

This wouldn’t be a pane based pepper, but Notification has shown us that not all peppers need to have panes in the mint folder.

The pepper should:

• Allow you to pick how many days you want to go back.
• Let you style your list in CSS.
• Alternatively let you specify a blacklist of URIs to ignore, or a whitelist of only those to use.

Anyone, feel free to run with this one!

I would think that it would better to specify the HTML structure of the list, and then let you define CSS outside of the Pepper preferences.

Yeah, there is a WP plugin that does this, but it doesn’t work if WP / Mint are in different DB’s

FYI: I just posted a new release (0.93) of the Mint Popular Posts plugin - the main additional functionality is the ability to pull data from a database other than your Wordpress DB.

This is great, but blog platform specific. I use Movable Type, so a Wordpress plugin doesn’t help.

Mint already knows the URLs and titles of entries. It shouldn’t need to reach out to the blog platform DB at all.

Till: That would be awesome. Looking forward to it. I’d be happy to alpha test and provide feedback.

I’m not finished my Downloads Pepper : )

You can do this on your own with 15 lines of code.