Jeff

One thing I noticed and am hoping to find a solution now, is the above code examples work great for the widget, however direct access through shortcode or wpp_get_mostpopular. Even if you pass posttype along as a param it does not get picked by wpp_shortcode. I added the line
'posttype' => empty($posttype) ? "all" : $posttype, to the $shortcode_ops, however $posttype is never defined. I assumed

extract( shortcode_atts( array(
                'header' => '',
                'limit' => 10,
                'range' => 'daily',
                'order_by' => 'comments',
                'pages' => true,
                'title_length' => 0,
                'excerpt_length' => 0,
                'excerpt_format' => 0,
                'cats_to_exclude' => '',
                'thumbnail_width' => 0,
                'thumbnail_height' => 0,
                'thumbnail_selection' => 'wppgenerated',
                'rating' => false,
                'stats_comments' => true,
                'stats_views' => false,
                'stats_author' => false,
                'stats_date' => false,
                'stats_date_format' => 'F j, Y',
                'wpp_start' => '<ul>',
                'wpp_end' => '</ul>',
                'post_start' => '<li>',
                'post_end' => '</li>',
                'header_start' => '<h2>',
                'header_end' => '</h2>',
                'do_pattern' => false,
                'pattern_form' => '{image} {title}: {summary} {stats}'
            ), $atts ) );

would pre-define it however it does not.