There no doubt that Alex King’s Popularity Contest plugin is, excuse the pun, one WordPress’s most popular plugin ever. But Alex seems to be a bit to busy to maintain the plugin (?2007 being the last update) and there is a plethora of users out there asking about patches, fixes, new version etc.

I’m not sure when exactly the plugin stopped working and which ‘branch’ versions are the best, but last week I came across this version and it’s working great on one of my WP 2.7 installs so I’m including it here for those that are struggling to find a version that works.