WordPress.com Popular Posts

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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.

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

541 risposte su “WordPress.com Popular Posts”

@Arinze: can you follow these steps and mail me the results?

@Adi Murvianto: I’m glad it works for you! 🙂

@Anthony Wakefield: I haven’t still received your debug output, can you re-check it and mail it to frasten ATTT gmail DOOOTT com please.

@Paul: The list is gathered through WP Stats at line 94:

$top_posts = stats_get_csv( 'postviews', "days={$opzioni['days']}&limit=$howmany" );

This list ($top_posts) is cleaned and fixed with the code from line 98 to line 158.
However you can read the comments in the code, to understand what it actually does.
Contact me if you need further infos. O-)

@Paul: sorry, I misread your comment :-$
As you can read in this page above, you must insert this line of code inside your theme:

If you need further customization, read above, Themes integration.

Love the plugin but having a problem…I deleted a post but its title still won’t stop appearing in the “popular posts” sidebar. How do I make it go away?

Thx!

Ho voluto chiederle questa domanda in italiano ma il mio italiano non e buono.

Is it possible to show the most active posts instead of the top posts?

Stopped working for me. No data is fetched/returned, although stats seem to work in the usual way elsewhere. Perhaps a change on their end?

This plugin is no longer working for me. It will not display the posts.

not working from 21st April what is the problem….

Hi,

I’m having a similar issue – for some reason in the last 24 hours strange things are happening with WP Stats. Not sure what’s going but I have observed the following symptoms:

– WordPress.com Popular Posts showing incorrect information.
– My WP Dashboard is also showing some strange stuff.

=> Perhaps the Cache needs to be cleared and reset. How is this done?

does not work for me either..
maybe super cache upgrades causing this

@everybody: Hi guys, it’s a problem in wordpress.com stats’ servers: this url is suddendly returning empty usage statistics.
Just wait a day or so, meanwhile you can disable the widget (or my plugin).
Let’s cross our fingers! 😛

Thanks boss,

Appreciate the prompt response and I’ve got my fingers crossed too. In the meantime I have temporarily switched off the WPPP.

Cheers,

This plugin has Suddenly Stopped Working …

I have Been a LoyalUser of this plugin for Morethan 3 months But Suddenly I find today That It is not Showing anything. I am Using this code in My Template :

<?php WPPP_show_popular_posts( “title=&number=10&days=0&format=%post_title% ” );?>

Please help ! I Know My code is Right and i have tried Deactivating and Activating the plugin But Nothing Works

@Amit Banerjee: Hi, too bad I can’t do anything about it, because there are some internal issues at WordPress.com… I hope they fix them soon!

Hi there!

First, THANKS for developing and sharing this very useful plugin! 🙂

I’m currently using a non-widget-ready theme and have used the code as instructed in the plugin install guidelines, which works perfectly!

I was wondering if there’s anyway to exclude Pages (and display only Posts) via the non-widget-ready code, or if there’s any portion of the plugin code I could edit to display only Posts.

Please let me know if there’s such a solution!

Thank you, and thanks again for sharing your work! 🙂

-Estella

But if the Issue is With WordPress.com Then How Is it Working For others ??..

I have tried to deactivate all my plugins and Use WordPress.com and Yours but still It doesn’t works ….I did an Upgrade to the WordPress.com plugin and Everything messed up .

Tried to restore things By Activating an older Versions of Both But still ..No Use !! 🙁