(Another TxP plugin! Wee!)
While the jas_popular_articles plugin actually does the basic task of listing the most popular pages, it didn’t seem like the best solution. I looked through the plugin source and apparently, it uses the Textpattern visitor logs to count the visits. Unfortunately, these logs only record the requested URLs within the TxP site and not the actual content that visitors go to. I could enumerate several situations in which this would be less than ideal, but you’re probably smart enough to think of a few.
bit_counting_article uses a custom field to count the visits to the individual article, and provides a tag to replace <txp:article /> to do the hit count incrementing.
Also included is another tag to output an article list of the most (or least) visited articles. It’s built on the code of ort_article_psort by Lucas Gueñol.
For a detailed look at the plugin, visit the forum thread.
Download bit_counting_article.