Hi Stephen,

The reason i went with the Squares on this blog is because i just couldn't get the stars to look right on the background, so I figured I'd give the squares a try. I may redo the images later for the stars, but I like the squares alright for now.

In the footer I'm actually just using the "most popular" display like this.

[php]
< ?php get_highest_rated('post', 5); ?>
[/php]

For the most viewed section I'm using WP-PostViews, also by Lester Chan with this template code.

[php]
< ?php get_most_viewed('post', 5); ?>
[/php]

On the homepage I use a $postcount variable to display the rating code (and other stuff) for the first post, which is full text, but not for the rest of the posts which are excerpts.