I upgraded to wordpress 2.5 yesterday (and installed the WP stats plugin), and installed this plugin today. I followed all these steps, and added the widget to my sidebar. Yet it doesn’t show up! Could this be because there isn’t enough wordpress stats data for the widget to cull (less than 24 hours since upgrading the wordpress software), or is it just not compatible with wordpress 2.5?

Thanks for the quick reply! It looks like the problem was that I was using v1.1.1 of Wordpress Stats. I switched to v1.2 and it started working immediately. Thanks again!

What plugin do you use for allowing users to edit their comments? I love it!

Hi, is there a way of inserting “popular post” to sidebar.php without widgets enabled?

Please ignore my previous comment.
Grab version 0.2.2 of Wordpress.com Popular Posts, then add this code where you need:

<?php if (function_exists('WPPP_show_popular_posts')) WPPP_show_popular_posts(); ?>

My apologizes.

Hiya - loving your work on this plugin - really handy way of helping people navigate the site.

Is there any way I can restrict the popular posts to, say, the past week or month for example?

Also, is there any way of excluding pages and just counting posts?

Reckon these would make really useful additions to a great plugin.

Chris

Nice one - thanks for the fast reply!

Hmmm, yeah I forgot about that.
I’ll add new arguments in the function “WPPP_show_popular_posts”, in next version.

The plugin for the smilies is Smilies Themer Toolbar, developed by me you can find it here!

@JunkieYard Dot Com: now in version 0.4.0 you can add arguments to the function WPPP_show_popular_posts(), download the new version and read the docs above.
I’ll look into your error with IE.

Hi, added to wishlist.

Excellent Plugin!

I do have a suggestion tho for it. When I tried to install it on my blog, it changes the formatting for the title of the sidebar. Where it says Popular Posts it is aligned left and different text than my normal sidebar. Is there a way to change some formatting on it so it looks like the rest of my sidebar titles?

Thanks for this plugin. It’s working great.

I am having some troubles with customizing the formatting to match the stylesheet of my theme. When I call the function in my sidebar.php file, are the results returned with a tag or something? I seem to have a bullet point associated with each popular post item that I can’t seem to get rid of.

Thanks for your help,
J.

I can’t see comments?

@frasten: Thanks! The information about the wppp_list class is exactly what I needed. It’s working great now - and I customized using CSS. All the best, and thanks again for the fast response.

Hi, it’s a Wordpress.com Stats issue.
However, I looked at the code, and this happens when you have a corrupted stats cache.
To fix it you have to manually execute (via phpMyAdmin or similar) this query, in your WordPress database:

DELETE FROM wp_options WHERE option_name = 'stats_cache'

Next time you reload the page, the cache will be re-created and it should work as expected.

frasten, after I delete stats_cache, I got the widgets.php to work, but after I added the widget to a sidebar, the error returned. I had to disable the plugin.

Yes, I think so. Any directions?

@Lealcy B. Junior: let’s try this:
edit the file stats.php, in the Wordpress.com Stats Plugin folder, and change line 543:

if ( !$stats_cache = get_option( 'stats_cache' ) )
  $stats_cache = array();

to:

$stats_cache = get_option( 'stats_cache' );
if ( !$stats_cache || !is_array( $stats_cache ) )
  $stats_cache = array(); 

and re-upload your wordpress.com stats plugin.

This could be a workaround; however if your blog receives many visits this could use some bandwidth (if your cache doesn’t work, it makes a requests to wordpress.com servers, on each visit).

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@Trisha, @Chris: Right now! download v1.1 above.
It’s a little hackish, but it should work fine.

YAAY! It works! I’m so happy! I’m off to pay you a donation!

Thank you! I really appreciated your donation, I’ll keep on working on these plugins!
And I edited the link for the donations, thank you for reporting.

I tried to get this plugin to work but whenever I go to add it in the widget section it just dissapears after I click “Add”. I have not upgraded to wordpress 2.5.1 yet is that needed to get it to work?

@Andy: Hi, what version of WordPress are you using? It’s a very strange behavior.

I just tried it again and what seems to happen is after I click “add” popular posts widget under Available Widgets all the widgets under “Current Widgets” dissapear including the Popular posts one. They do not return unless I refresh the page and this all happens again if I try to add Popular posts every time but does not happen if I try to add other widgets. Its strange.

Hello,

I have the most recent version of both this plugin and the stats plugin and everything seems to be setup correctly.

Unfortunately, no matter what nothing populates

When I add the widget it just lists the title but doesn’t list naything else - could it be my theme?

Any ideas? Thanks!

@Andy: Thank you for reporting. Actually, the widget configuration under IE7 looks really crappy.
I’ll look into that.

@ComicNerd.com: I’ve PMed you, I need the complete MySQL error.

Hi,

I was getting the same fatal error described by Lealcy B. Junior. The solution you supplied him works for me as well.

But I’d like to suggest you to work on a general fix. My WordPress (2.5.1) and your plugin (1.1.1) should work fine in all cases.

BTW your plugin is a nicely done job. Gongratulations.

Great!

Does it mean I can undo the changes on stats.php?

@Marcelo:
The authors of Wordpress.com Stats will include the fix in the next version of Wordpress.com Stats, as you can read in the development branch log.

Great plugin, frasten.

btw, your plugin doesn’t support the_excerpt.

i want to display my popular posts in my home page like this.

format=<a href='%post_permalink%' title='%post_title_attribute%'>%post_title% (%post_views% views)</a>
<br />%the_excerpt%

@Cody, @blog.situskamu.com:
Now (in v1.2) you can include a truncated version of the content:
just add %post_excerpt% to your format.
Example:

format=<a href='%post_permalink%' title='%post_title_attribute%'>%post_title% (%post_views% views)</a>
<br />%content_excerpt%

@Hesam:
can you give me the link to an example post that is giving problems?
I’ll try to track your issue. Thank you!

@all:
From v1.2 there is multi-language support.
If you want to contribute, translate the file wordpresscom-popular-posts.pot in the language folder, and send it to me.

@Omid:
Thank you for reporting. This could the same issue as Hesam’s.
I’ll try to fix it in the next version.

For some reason some of post titles under Popular Posts are not correct to the actual post title.

They seem to be showing up as the original Post Title while I was creating my post. Many times I end up changing the title and publishing it and the titles under Popular Posts don’t reflect the changes.

Hello.

I really like this plugin.
In short words, I L VE this plugin!

So, I am developing my a theme to use with this plugin.
What I’m trying to do is to display the popular post with its excerpt.
Ya, I’ve read all the comments too, but yet I don’t understand it.

Here is the out put I want.

Popular Post

Post Title (View)
Post Excerpt

Post Title (View)
Post Excerpt

Post Title (View)
Post Excerpt

What is the code should I use?
Thanks in advance.

p/s: I don’t have formal php lesson.

You mentioned above that

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:

You didn’t provide any code though after “files:”

Can we NOT have “Pages” but only posts show up in most popular on the sidebar?
Thanks!!

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@Andrea, Will:
v1.3 should fix your issues. Download it above.

@Panagiotis, Hesam, Omid:
Can you try v1.3? It could fix your characters encoding issues.

It was for an incompatibility with PHP < 5.0, it’s fixed in v1.3.1.

Thank you so much for a quick reply frasten, it’s working now - you are a star.

@Marcelo, Will, Panagiotis:
Thank for your feedback

HI! Thx for the great plugin. Here a little feature suggestion.
Maybe it has already been mentioned. I’d like to display the most popular posts per category.
This would be a great feature for your plugin !
Take care !
Jochen

Thanks for the plugin again frasten, still working great.

One small request

Is it possible to truncate the title text at all? for example have a maximum of say 30 characters, I think it could be a great feature.

Keep up the great work

Hey,

This plugin is great, especially if you’re using WP-Cache which prevents the use of other stats plugins like this.

One feature that is really needed tho.
To be able to show the popular posts of a particular category or more ?

please please please

Great Plugin, I’m using at my Website. Thanks a lot for your efforts mate.

why suddenly it’s not working?

Nice plugin!!! Seriously, is perfect! Only one advice… it would be great if you give the possibility to set a max lenght for the title.

@wildgames:
Thank you, I’ll add it to the next version.

@Swaroop:
Thank you and thanks for your A Bite of Python, I’m reading it to learn python

when I use “posts only” in the Show option, the widget won’t appear in my blog. It will only appear when I use “both posts and pages”. How will I fix this? I don’t want the pages to show also, but only the posts

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 have the same problem with Zang, it only works when i put posts and pages together not just posts only.

@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!!!

@Zang, BZou, Tony, others:
Thanks to BZou’s reporting, your problem should be fixed in v1.3.4.
Check it out!!!

@Nicksoft:
thank you!

@sOliver:
Hi, can you try to follow the steps above?
I need more info.

Hi, I am currently using your plugin and its great but I am wondering if its possible to display the number of visits on all posts within a blog instead of just displaying it on the sidebar. So whenever a visitor visits a post within the blog they could see the number of times the post had been visited. Is that possible?

@David: I put it on the wishlist, I’ll try to implement it as soon as I find the time for that

@Ariel: Thank you!

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