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I want to use a Wordpress plugin named: Popular Posts plugin (by Rob Marsh, SJ) . This plugin using 'pvc_views' metadata as an order in SQL query. With this plugin, I want to accomodate 'views' metadata (from WP-PostViews plugin) and 'ratings_score' metadata (from WP-PostRatings plugin) plugins too, instead of 'pvc_views' metadata. So I changed the source code, here they are:

— FILE: popular-posts.php (Version: 2.6.2.0) —

Find this :

$where[] = "meta_key = 'pvc_views'";

and then I changed with this:

if ($options['popular_mode'] == 'ratings_score') {
	$where[] = "meta_key = 'ratings_score'"; //from plugin WP-PostRatings
} elseif ($options['popular_mode'] == 'views') {
	$where[] = "meta_key = 'views'"; //from plugin WP-PostViews
} else
{ 
	$where[] = "meta_key = 'pvc_views'"; //default;
}

— END OF FILE: popular-posts.php —

# New parameter:

- popular_mode:

• views, if you want to use views metadata (from wp-postviews). 
• ratings_score, if you want to use ratings_score metadata (from wp-postratings). 
• if popular_mode not defined, the default is using pvc_views metadata.

How to use:

To use wp-postviews as an order criteria, use this:

popular_posts('[.....]&popular_mode=views');

To use wp-postratings as an order criteria, use this:

popular_posts('[.....]&popular_mode=ratings_score');

Thank you. :)

NB: sorry if my English grammar is bad.