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WordPress.com Popular Posts

IMPORTANT: due to my job, I’m now too busy to maintain my plugins.

This plugin has been abandoned!

If you are a developer and would like to fork, feel free to do so (under the GPLv3 license). No need to contact me.

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
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.

This plugin required many hours of development. If you like this plugin, then buy me a coffee!

541 risposte su “WordPress.com Popular Posts”

@frasten: Thank you, I appreciate it!

The plug-in is great but because of my screw up I’m not able to use it yet. I activated the stats too early (while setting up the blog), I was refreshing a test post from another computer (where I wasn’t logged in) to see changes, needless to say there are a lot of hits on that post which no longer exists. 🙁 OOPS!

anyway:
I’m hoping to take a look at the plug-in code myself and see if I can come up with a solution but I’m not quite familiar enough with WordPress plug-in coding to do it myself. But, if I do get time and find a solution I will definitely post here for others.

Thanks for the reply, and excellent work on such a useful plug-in!

Hello,

I get XHTML Errors in Validator for some reasons.

# Line 931, column > 80: XML Parsing Error: AttValue: ” or ‘ expected

…widget WPPP_print_widget”>Top Artikel 80: XML Parsing Error: xmlParseEntityRef: no name

…03/08/speedport-w920v-w721v/’ title=’Speedport W 721V & W 920V’>Speedport…

Doctype: XHTML 1.0 Strict

How could I fix this?

Hi there,

This is an excellent plugin. After looking all over, I finally decided to settle on this one for popular posts, bcoz it works in conjunction with WP-Stats.

I have a small question though, you have mentioned you have fixed cache issues in latest version. What exactly was the issue?

Is the plugin compatible with WP-Super Cache?
Thanks! :o)

@Dinesh Mathia: yeah, don’t worry! WP-Stats caches its data, to keep working fast, but there was an internal problem, fixed in that version.
By the way, I’m running WP-Super Cache on this site, too. O-)

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Thanks for the quick reply and answering my question. This is a big load off my mind, am sure others who would be wondering about this would find this useful.

Keep up he good work! 🙂

Thanks for the great plug-in!

Question: Is there a way to exclude a specific category from being shown among the Popular Posts? I’ve searched for help elsewhere, but I figured that I should go to the source and ask.

Anyone know if this is possible?

Hi! I’ve installed this plugin today (v. 1.3.5). I have WordPress.com Stats installed also (v. 1.3.5). I verified that the stats are working (have had it installed for about a month).

The title shows up, but no posts below it. Should I run the debug script I see in earlier comments?

Thanks,
Terri Z

@Chandler Epp: no, it isn’t possible at this moment. Maybe one day! 😛

@Terri Zwierzynski: Thank you for reporting. I’ve found the bug, and is in WordPress.com Stats code. I’ve sent a fix to its developers, but meanwhile you can try this fix:
Open your /wp-content/plugins/stats/stats.php in a text editor, and go to line 735, you will find this line:

$url = clean_url( $url, null, 'url' );

Add the following lines after that:

if ( ! function_exists( 'wp_categories_to_tags' ) )
		$url = str_replace( '&#038;', '&', $url );

It should fix your issue with WP < 2.3.

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