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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”

I love your addon! It works great and easy to use.

However I have had difficulty getting a feature to work. It seems that using the Category Code does not work.

WPPP_show_popular_posts( ‘title=&number=20&days=90&show=posts&format=%post_title%&category=’.$cat.” );

Even when trying:
WPPP_show_popular_posts( ‘title=&number=20&days=90&show=posts&format=%post_title%&category=41′ );

It won’t work. Only when I set category=0 or remove it will it work.

If you look closer, the wordpress servers mailfunction, not the plugin. They wrote a message to your dashboard about some error fixing: “Currently access to stats is broken for some users and we are working on fixing this. Your stats are still being counted and will be visible once we restore access for your account”

Hi,
the WP Stats Plugin is up and running again but it seems that it doesn’t report the data to your plugin anymore.
Take a look at http://www.umstellung.info. On the right there is the headline “Beliebteste Beiträge” (Most popular posts).
Any idea.
Thank you for this great plugin!
yours, severin

The data is not correct from the stats remote call.

Most of the posts being fetched are coming back with all data except the ID of the post (which ruins everything).

I just had some of mine randomly reappear, but half the posts are still missing the ID.

Hello,

we are using this plugin, and last day the plugin toped working, i read from the other comments and i saw that the is wordpress.com fault.
Please can you tell me when the plugin will be functional like before, because at the moment its not working at all
Thank you

Sorry, I’ve been busy.
I’ll work on the plugin in the next few hours. (and maybe I’ll add jetpack support, if it’s possible).

Dell'autore dell'articolo

Great widget, but it does not work with the new jetpack from wordpress.com If you would update it, or show me how to, I would use this because I like it.
Ed

Just an update for everyone:
1) the WordPress server is returning empty results, so there’s nothing I can do. Let’s wait for a fix.
2) My plugin seems already compatible with Jetpack. I’ve now installed Jetpack instead of WP.com Stats here, on this blog, and as you can see, there are some links under “ARTICOLI PIÙ LETTI” (most popular posts).
3) The popular posts list was completely empty before, but now it’s slowly populating: I think (and hope) that they’re trying to fix the issue.

Dell'autore dell'articolo

Now I’m browsing the forums: it seems that this new change from WP stats to Jetpack caused many issues in the WP.com system.
I hope they’ll fix it soon!

Dell'autore dell'articolo