WordPress.com Popular Posts
WordPress.com Popular Posts integrates with Wordpress.com Stats plugin, providing a widget to show the most viewed posts.
Installation
- From v2.0.0, WordPress 2.8 is required. If you are using an older version of WordPress, use v1.3.5 of this plugin.
- Install Wordpress.com Stats plugin (required at least v1.2!!!)
- Download Wordpress.com Popular Posts
- 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)
- title_length (the length of the title links, default 0, i.e. unlimited)
- exclude (the list of post/page IDs to exclude, separated by commas. Read the FAQ for instructions)
- cutoff (don’t show posts/pages with a view count under this number, default 0, i.e. unlimited)
- list_tag (can be: ul, ol, none, default ul)
- category (the ID of the category, see the FAQ for info. Default 0, i.e. all categories)
- cachename (it is used to enable the cache. Please read the FAQ).
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.
- %post_category% the category of the post
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>" );?>
Shortcodes
If you want to include the list in a particular page or post, you can use shortcodes. Please read the FAQ for further info.
FAQ
Please read other updated FAQ here.
Changelog
You can read the whole changelog on the project page.
Download

Download latest version of Wordpress.com Popular Posts for WordPress 2.8+
or v1.3.5 for Wordpress < 2.8
License
Wordpress.com Popular Posts is released under a GPL v3 license.
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circa 4 settimane fa
I have wp 1.9.1, WPPP Version 1.3.5 and Stats 1.6 with double output:
# page (1 reader)
# post (5 reader)
# post (1 reader)
(here comes title: Popular Posts =deleted by parameter title=)
* page
* page
* post
* post
when I add parameter &format=%post_title% (%post_views% views)
title shows up again despite deleted by parameter title=
2. can I exclude certain pages by parameter?
Thanks! & good plugin!
Os.
circa 4 settimane fa
hint: 2nd part with * wrappes in
while # is just in .
circa 3 settimane fa
os double output problems solved .
circa 1 settimana fa
@frasten.
Amazon plugin, the best, but one very small thing is stopping me using it.
I’m using the PHP code option in my sidebar code. You have the “list_tag (can be: ul, ol, default ul)” options.
Can you add in a “none” option to the list_tag? This will then allow me to wrap the PHP code inside my own custom code.
This is because I need to use your code for my tabed sections to work.
Thanks for the consideration and plugin!
circa 1 settimana fa
@Matt: the new 2.4.0 version adds that feature! Just upgrade your plugin and test it!
circa 1 settimana fa
@frasten. Many thanks! I didn’t know the feature was already available!
I’m using it with the PHP code, works great. Just had to add in the format tag to get the ’s back. I also activated the cache, hope it’s working!
Cheers frasten, amazing plugin!
circa 1 settimana fa
Thanks so much for adding in my code for shortcodes! On a completely separate note, what plugin are you using here to display your source code snippets without having the WP editor screw them all up?
circa 1 settimana fa
@Tim Nicholson: I’m (was) using this plugin; however now I moved to this other one, with a nice syntax highlighting system.