I made myself a little hack of the Popularity Contest Wordpress plugin. I was really sick of seeing that stupid "Rosie V. Trump" post at the top of the list for the last 3 months, so I added in a function that shows the most popular posts in the last 30 days. I suppose even better would be to make that parameterized so that you could call it with any number and have it look back that many days. It's worth noting that this sort of thing already exists in the management pages, but I had to hack it to expose it to the public side. Maybe I'll do that and then submit it back to Alex King to include it in the main release. Although, it took me 3 minutes to do it while unfamiliar with the code so I'm sure he could do it in 45 seconds.

Update: I tried to post the thing in coments and it styled it and it sucks. Here is a zip file of my hacked version. Replace your popularity-contest.php with the one from the zip file and then you'll have a new function you can use in your template called akpc_most_popular_in_last_month() . Have at it, friends.