Index: views_cloud_plugin_summary_style_cloud.inc
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--- views_cloud_plugin_summary_style_cloud.inc	(revision 936)
+++ views_cloud_plugin_summary_style_cloud.inc	(working copy)
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
   function option_definition() {
     $options = parent::option_definition();
     $options['count'] = array('default' => FALSE);
+    $options['sort'] = array('default' => 'desc');
     $options['randomize'] = array('default' => TRUE);
     $options['sizes'] = array('default' => '7');
     $options['font_size'] = array('default' => '');
@@ -17,9 +18,20 @@
   function options_form(&$form, &$form_state) {
     parent::options_form($form, $form_state);
 
+    $form['sort'] = array(
+      '#type' => 'radios',
+      '#title' => t('Override sort to show'),
+      '#options' => array(
+        'desc' => t('Most popular items by count'),
+        'random' => t('Random items'),
+      ),
+      '#description' => t('This will ignore all normal sorting and sort instead by the item count.'),
+      '#default_value' => $this->options['sort'],
+    );
+
     $form['randomize'] = array(
       '#type' => 'checkbox',
-      '#title' => t('Randomize the order of items'),
+      '#title' => t('Randomize the order of shown items'),
       '#description' => t("This setting respects the View's sort order when limiting large paged lists, but shuffles each list of items when displayed on the page."),
       '#default_value' => $this->options['randomize'],
     );
@@ -60,4 +72,36 @@
       '#default_value' => $this->options['algorithm'],
     );
   }
+
+  function query() {
+    parent::query();
+
+    // Add a filter to include a certain count threshold.
+    if ($this->options['count_filter']) {
+      $this->view->query->add_where(0, 'num_records > %d', $this->options['count_filter']);
+    }
+
+    // Override normal sorting and sort by number of results.
+    if ($this->options['sort'] == 'random') {
+      global $db_type;
+      switch ($db_type) {
+        case 'mysql':
+        case 'mysqli':
+          $formula = 'RAND()';
+          break;
+        case 'pgsql':
+          $formula = 'RANDOM()';
+          break;
+      }
+      if (!empty($formula)) {
+        $this->view->query->orderby = array();
+        $this->view->query->add_field(NULL, $formula, 'random', array('aggregate' => TRUE));
+        $this->view->query->orderby[] = 'random DESC';
+      }
+    }
+    elseif ($this->options['sort']) {
+      $this->view->query->orderby = array();
+      $this->view->query->add_orderby(NULL, NULL, $this->options['sort'], 'num_records');
+    }
+  }
 }