WordPress.com Popular Posts
WordPress.com Popular Posts integrates with Wordpress.com Stats plugin, providing a widget to show the most viewed posts.
Installation
- Install Wordpress.com Stats plugin (required at least v1.2!!!)
- Download Wordpress.com Popular Posts v1.3.4
- Extract the files in the .zip archive, and upload them (including subfolders) to your
/wp-content/plugins/directory - Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
- Place the widget where you like in your sidebars
- Enjoy!
Themes Integration
If your theme supports widgets, you can place the widget named ‘Popular Posts’ where you want.
If it doesn’t, put this code inside the file sidebar.php, in your theme files:
<?php if (function_exists('WPPP_show_popular_posts')) WPPP_show_popular_posts(); ?>Optionally you can add some parameters to the function, in this format:
name=value&name=value etc.
Possible names are:
- title (title of the widget, you can add tags (e.g. <h3>Popular Posts</h3>) default: Popular Posts)
- number (number of links shown, default: 5)
- days (length of the time frame of the stats, default 0, i.e. infinite)
- show (what you want to show; it can be: both, posts, pages; default is both)
- format (the format of the links shown, default:
<a href='%post_permalink%' title='%post_title%'>%post_title%</a>) - excerpt_length (the length of the excerpt, if %post_excerpt% is used in the format)
You can use these special markers in the format value:
%post_permalink%the link to the post%post_title%the title the post%post_title_attribute%the title of the post; use this in attributes, e.g.<a title='%post_title_attribute%'...%post_views%number of views- %post_excerpt% the first n characters of the content. Set n in the widget options.
Example
If you want to show the widget without any title, the 3 most viewed articles, in the last week, and in this format: My Article (123 views) you will use this:
<?php WPPP_show_popular_posts( "title=&number=3&days=7&format=<a href='%post_permalink%' title='%post_title_attribute%'>%post_title% (%post_views% views)</a>" );?>
Changelog
- 1.3.4 - Hopefully fixed a problem on some blogs, when displaying only posts or only pages.
- 1.3.3 - Updated compatibility with WP 2.6
- 1.3.2 - New option: now you can limit the length of the links.
- 1.3.1 - Fixed an incompatibily with PHP < 5.0.
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1.3
- Now the titles & permalinks are taken from the database, so they should updated.
Arabic/Greek etc. language issues should be fixed now.
License
Wordpress.com Popular Posts is released under a GPL v3 license.
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@Zang:
I’ve just set it to “posts only” here on my blog, and it’s working fine.
Is anybody having the same issue?
If I update the permalink of one of my posts it will not show any popular posts at all, although it was working before.
Hmm.. no clue what to do, I have to change permalinks from time to time
I am having the same problem as Zang. I’m running Wordpress 2.6.1 and the latest version of your plugin. I do not have a widgetized theme. If I leave the plugin to show posts and pages, it works great. But if I change it to show posts only, everything disappears.
I have the same problem with Zang, it only works when i put posts and pages together not just posts only.
how do we fix this then? i am using Wordpress 2.6 and even with 2.5 before, the same problem occurred.
@Zang, BZou, Tony, others:
Can you try this?
- download this zip file
- extract it and overwrite the current /wp-content/plugins/wordpresscom-popular-posts/wppp.php file
- Log in to your admin page
- Go to Settings -> Popular Posts *DEBUG*
- you’ll see a long text. Copy & mail it to: frasten AATT gmail DOOTT com
Thank you!!!
thanks, very nice plugin !!
@Zang, BZou, Tony, others:
Thanks to BZou’s reporting, your problem should be fixed in v1.3.4.
Check it out!!!
@Nicksoft:
thank you!
Hmm the posts keep disappearing.
It will display the popular posts from time to time only.
What could be the problem?
Thanks for your help.
sOliver
@sOliver:
Hi, can you try to follow the steps above?
I need more info.