Hello, At my current website, http://www.plutoswallet.com/ I have an idea of how I want my popular posts displayed at the top of the page. There's a problem, though. All of the popular posts plugins don't really work well with my layout. I need way more customization. The plugins only allow you to display the popular posts as a list, but as you can see, I am not using a list. I have to be able to display the thumbnail, comments count, views, and ratings. Right now, there is a prototype at the top of the website so you can see the effect I am trying to achieve.
You are either going to have to design it yourself, or hack one of the existing ones. Or every week manually post the top posts where you want them. I could be wrong, but I have never seen one with specific customizations as you are looking for. I think since you have designed the prototype (which looks pretty spot on) , that you are pretty much on your way to editing an existing plug in, , and just insert the code to display where you want it. Necessity is the mother of invention.