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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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
hi. Thanks for plugin
perfect.
Regards
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
if it’s set into “posts and pages” the widget will show up. but when set to “posts only” it won’t. how do i fix this? plus, kindly check my page, there are some errors regarding the post title and links. some titles won’t show up and yet it has a link to the post. another one, some of the post’s title are not fully shown
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
@all:
I’ve been offline for a long time, I’m sorry.
@Will:
Download v1.3.2 above, now you can truncate the links.
Great Plugin, I’m using at my Website.
Thanks a lot for your efforts mate. 
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why suddenly it’s not working?
This is a great plugin