WordPress.com Popular Posts

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!

  • #1 scritto da Make and Do Girl
    circa 6 mesi fa
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    Hi there. I’m trying to get the plugin to work with the PathedTab Plugin. I’ve got it installed and activated, but no posts are showing up. Do I need to do something else in order to get it to work? Thanks for your help and for providing this plugin!

  • #2 scritto da Jani
    circa 6 mesi fa
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    I have latest jetpack + wppp and my popularpost widget not work. When i look in the source code it says .

  • #3 scritto da YOUCANWAKE
    circa 4 mesi fa
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    looking for this // great

  • #4 scritto da Haris
    circa 3 mesi fa
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    Great plugin, but may we add thumb on left side of links?
    For example 20x20px?

    If can, please give us instructions

  • #5 scritto da Board Directory
    circa 3 mesi fa
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    Hey there,

    This is a really nice plugin and I hope you continue to develop it.

  • #6 scritto da dlp
    circa 2 mesi fa
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    Great plugin.

    I need to retrieve image thumbnails from post, i do this adding these lines in your code:

    [CODE]
    // %post_thumbnail% stuff
    if ( FALSE !== strpos( $instance['format'], ‘%post_thumbnail%’ ) ) {
    $arr_aux = wp_get_attachment_image_src(get_post_thumbnail_id($post['post_id']));
    if(!empty($arr_aux))
    {
    $replace['%post_thumbnail%'] = $arr_aux[0];
    }
    }

    if ( FALSE !== strpos( $instance['format'], ‘%AMP%’ ) ) {
    $replace['%AMP%'] = ‘&’;
    }

    [/CODE]

    Last block is for to add ‘&’ to html output in format, %AMP%.

    Thank you.

  • #7 scritto da forblogger
    circa 2 mesi fa
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    Thanks for sharing. but this coding . very Hard fotr me :( .

  • #8 scritto da bgz
    circa 2 mesi fa
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    does your plugin count popularity for custom post types?

  • #9 scritto da kim
    circa 1 mese fa
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    I have changed the magic number to 2, 3, and then numbers in the thousands and 100,000′s… I still get only 3 popular posts listed. Can you help?

  • #10 scritto da Gustavo Ulyssea
    circa 1 mese fa
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    I was getting crazy with this widgets thing. Thank you very much, solved.

  • #11 scritto da Frank Stjerne
    circa 1 mese fa
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    I love this plugin but the title looks awful in my theme. The developers at Spyr Media wrote this to me:

    Unfortunately this is a result of those particular plugin authors not applying the widget_title filter to their widgets. This causes those widget titles to be missing an additional wrap that we add to allow for further styling of those headings. That’s the reason why all of the built-in WordPress widgets work…they obviously properly apply the widget_title filter :)

    Can you do something about it?

  • #12 scritto da Jack
    circa 1 mese fa
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    Hello guys, can some help me i wana show image from the post custom field and i just can get i to work :-(
    The funtion i need to display i think is this
    ID, “Thumbnail”, true);?>
    Thanks!

  • #13 scritto da Jack
    circa 1 mese fa
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    ID , “Thumbnail”, true ) ; ? >
    i dont know why its dont insert all of the code

  • #14 scritto da Jack
    circa 1 mese fa
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    [CODE]
    ID, “Thumbnail”, true);?>
    [/CODE]
    Oh, should use code tag, sry for spam

  • #15 scritto da Stijn
    circa 3 settimane fa
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    Good morning Frasten.

    First, let me thank you for making this awesome plugin. It’s been a pleasure and a joy to discover it’s many features and play with new ones you add.

    I have a question regarding the available custom values. At the moment you can ‘exclude’ a post/page based on their ID. Do you think that the inverse is also possible? I would like to show the total views for a single post.

    To my best knowledge that would look something like WPPP_show_popular_posts(‘include=get_the_ID’ )

    As you can see I am not an expert in this area. Would it be possible for you to get back to me on this? Many thanks.

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