first let me congratulate you for such a great free theme (Sparkling). It is unique and also the fact that you provide support is great.
I use the Sparkling Popular Posts widget however, I’d like to change the criteria so that the post count/ranking is based on post views rather than number of comments. Is this easy to achieve? Can you point me in the right direction? I am also using the child theme so I can preserve your regular theme updates as well as my custom changes.
The reason I want to do it this way is because I have tried using other plugins (e.g. Top 10) but I can’t seem to achieve the same appearance with thumb + link post as with your native Sparkling Popular Posts Widget.
I hope you are well today and thank you for your question.
It is already in our following feature request which will be developed ASAP.
In the meanwhile if you are not a developer then you can consider hiring a developer to develop it for you. You can hire a developer from any freelance site. Colorlib recommends the developer https://www.upwork.com/freelancers/~011652ffec8865c6d5
Developing custom code for custom functionality is beyond the scope of support that we provide here.
