The Popularity Contest plugin is a great way to highlight the best posts on your blog to your visitors. Unfortunately, integrating the Popularity Contest plugin into your blog’s theme can be a problem, espectially for none technical bloggers. The Popularity Contest Widget makes integrating the Popularity Contest plugin into your blog theme a lot easier. There’s no need to edit any template code. In order for the Popularity Contest Widget to work it must have the Popularity Contest plugin already installed and activated.