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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.
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541 risposte su “WordPress.com Popular Posts”
@boilr, James White: I’ve just upgraded my blog to WP 2.8, and it’s working fine for me.
However I will try to reproduce your issues.
Can you please follow these instructions and mail me the results?
@Estella: nice suggestion, excluding posts marking them as private. I’ll add this to the wishlist.
Thanks Frasten I have sent the WPPP Debug file with it’s contents.
Excellent Plugin thanks, my users love it.
There are two things I would like to see though.
1) Set a page view lower limit cut off. i.e. Don’t show posts/pages with a view count under x
2) The ability to count logged in visitors, and the ability to not count the admin by maybe setting a user level limit.
thanks again.
I’m using your plugin as a widget in the sidebar, and I wonder if it´s possible to have more than one instance running, i.e. one showing most read posts ever and the other most read during the last week. Tks for your plugin and your attention.
@Hedley Phillips: I added 1) to the wishlist. But 2) depends only by WordPress.com Stats, and my plugin cannot do anything for that. Please ask this feature to its developers.
@Santiago: I’m actually working on this feature now. It will be available for WP 2.8+ users only.
That´s great news! Thanks again.
I would like to add that I would also like to be able to exclude certain post ID’s or have it only show posts from a certain time frame – IE, not show any posts older than a year for example….
Anyone willing to test the upcoming v2.0.0?
It is a complete rewrite of this plugin, it has new features but I’m pretty sure that there could be issues, so I need some testers!
It is only compatible with WP 2.8!
When you upgrade, you will find your old widget under “Inactive Widgets”, so just drag it and place it where you like.
I only want to show popular posts in a particular category. how do i do that?
@justme: you can do it with v2.0.1 above 🙂
Please can you make title= return to not displaying the title in the next version.
I now have spare HTML on my site which I don’t need and it looks out of place.
It appears the title parameter no longer recognizes html tags. I’m assuming this is a bug as you still list this functionality in the documentation above.
@Ryan Cullen, Kameron: fixed in v2.0.2.
Thank you for your reports, keep on testing, because this is a major rewrite, and bugs are very possible! 🙂
Strange.
I use the title parameter as ”, but it still shows “Popular Posts”… Any idea?