Kinda Vague problem there. Let me see your widget code and the HTML it outputs.

Here is my widget code. My section id is 147 and the output is per attached.

// Set Your Section ID Here
$section = '147';
// Set The Number of Articles To Display
$limit = '2';
// Set The Height of The Thumbnail Image
$height = '250';
// Set The Width of The Thumbnail Image
$width = '250';

$articlegrab = vB::$db->query_read("
SELECT ".TABLE_PREFIX."cms_nodeinfo.nodeid
, ".TABLE_PREFIX."cms_nodeinfo.title
, ".TABLE_PREFIX."cms_article.previewimage
, ".TABLE_PREFIX."cms_article.previewtext
, ".TABLE_PREFIX."cms_article.pagetext
, ".TABLE_PREFIX."cms_article.contentid
, ".TABLE_PREFIX."cms_node.nodeid
, ".TABLE_PREFIX."cms_node.parentnode
, ".TABLE_PREFIX."cms_node.contentid
, ".TABLE_PREFIX."cms_node.url
, ".TABLE_PREFIX."cms_node.publishdate
, ".TABLE_PREFIX."cms_node.setpublish
FROM ".TABLE_PREFIX."cms_article
, ".TABLE_PREFIX."cms_nodeinfo
, ".TABLE_PREFIX."cms_node
WHERE (".TABLE_PREFIX."cms_nodeinfo.nodeid = ".TABLE_PREFIX."cms_node.nodeid)
AND (".TABLE_PREFIX."cms_article.contentid = ".TABLE_PREFIX."cms_node.contentid)
AND (".TABLE_PREFIX."cms_node.parentnode IN ($section))
AND (".TABLE_PREFIX."cms_node.setpublish != 0)
ORDER BY ".TABLE_PREFIX."cms_node.publishdate DESC LIMIT $limit
");


while($articleinfo = vB::$db->fetch_array($articlegrab)) {

$title = $articleinfo['title'];
$image = $articleinfo['previewimage'];
$text = $articleinfo['previewtext'];
$nodeid = $articleinfo['nodeid'];
$url = $articleinfo['url'];
$unixdate = $articleinfo['publishdate'];
$date = date("F j, Y, g:i a", $unixdate);
$fulltext = strip_bbcode($fulltext);
$text = preg_replace('/\[ATTACH\=CONFIG\]\d\d\[\/ATTACH\]/', '', $text);
$text = strip_bbcode($text);


if($text == '') $text = substr($fulltext, 0,150);

$output .= '<left>';
if($image != '') $output .= "<img src='".$image."' width='".$width."px' height='".$height."px' /><br />";

$output .= "<a href='content.php?".$nodeid."-".$url."'>".$title."</a><br /><p>Publish Date: ".$date."</p></br></center><p>".$text." <a href='content.php?".$nodeid."-".$url."'> <img alt='Read More' src='images/cms/read_more-right.png' title='Read More' border='0'></a></p><br />";
}

hi oCR,

Thanks for your concern. I discover what's wrong with my widget. I tick the Permission Preview in the Display Content setting. After i remove the tick it's working now. :up:

Note that you can "easily" modify it to have the "best rated articles of this month"

1?) Add this in the SELECTed fields :
2?) Add this condition in your request to limit results to the current month (and year) :
3?) Replace the ORDER part :
with:
4?) In the While (where all variables are initialized) :
5?) Add somewhere in the $output string definition:
Regards.

Thank you very much XManuX =) Will try it later.

Anyway to output the results in real time? Or at least weekly?

What about modify it to the most viewed articles? =)

Is there any way to make this not display the content of the article, just the title with a link?

Results are updated each time you refresh the page. Using Ajax to refresh them without reloading the page could be cool but a huge backend would be required ...

To display most viewed instead of most rated, replace this :
with :
Then replace this :
with:
Replace:
with:
And finally replace:
with:

Worked perfectly, both modifications, thanks XManuX =)

I'm trying to modify the:

// Set Your Section ID Here
$section = '11';

so it recognizes the section where it is. Right now I have lots of latest, most popular and most viewed articles widgets for the various sections of my cms. Just one generic of each kind that could recognize the section where it is would make things a lot easier =)

Any help ? =)

Thanks for this, very nice. I am interested in doing this as well. I have deleted some code and it is working well, but I hate sloppiness. So if you could show the correct way, I would also appreciate it.