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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”

Thanks for this awesome plugin which I had installed about 2 hours ago.
The stats results are showing fine at my dashboard, but WPPP widget added at the right sidebar is not appearing at all in my blog. Have I to wait for a specific time frame or something is not right?
Please help!
Thanks and God bless you!

-Does your Popular Posts have thumbnails?
-And, do you know how to put a 728×90 ad space in header to the right of the logo?
-Also, how did you remove the shadows?
– :o) And how can I change the color of the green tag and comment icons?
Thank you very much sir.

[…] WordPress.com Popular Posts – I learned about this plug-in from a recent Mack Collier post. If you look in my right sidebar you’ll see the heading “Popular Posts.” This area always lists the most popular posts on my site. The assumption is that when new people come to your site, they might actually be interested in the other material on your site that was most interesting to other people. Go figure. So I added this, and sure enough, I still get a lot of traffic to those posts. Like most plug-ins it is also loaded with options. […]

Hi, congratulations for this excellent plugin!

Can you please hep me to insert within the following code? It gives an error. Thanks!

get_results(“SELECT comment_count,ID,post_title,post_excerpt FROM $wpdb->posts ORDER BY comment_count DESC LIMIT 0 , 8″);
foreach ($result as $post) {
setup_postdata($post);
$postid = $post->ID;
$title = $post->post_title;
$commentcount = $post->comment_count;
if ($commentcount != 0) { ?>
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32 ) {
echo substr( $title, 0, 32 ). “…”;
}
else {
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}
?>

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novice here forgive what might be simple question. i have some HTML in my post title “br forwarrd slash” for a new line – the command is showing up on the widget how can I fix that?