WordPress.com Popular Posts

WordPress.com Popular Posts integrates with Wordpress.com Stats plugin, providing a widget to show the most viewed posts.

Installation

Install Wordpress.com Stats plugin (required at least v1.2!!!)
Download Wordpress.com Popular Posts v1.3.4
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)

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.

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>" );?>

Changelog

1.3.4 - Hopefully fixed a problem on some blogs, when displaying only posts or only pages.
1.3.3 - Updated compatibility with WP 2.6
1.3.2 - New option: now you can limit the length of the links.
1.3.1 - Fixed an incompatibily with PHP < 5.0.
1.3 - Now the titles & permalinks are taken from the database, so they should updated.
Arabic/Greek etc. language issues should be fixed now.

License

Wordpress.com Popular Posts is released under a GPL v3 license.

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122 comments so far

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frasten Aprile 9, 2008 1:18 pm

Hmmm, yeah I forgot about that.
I’ll add new arguments in the function “WPPP_show_popular_posts”, in next version.

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JunkieYard Dot Com Aprile 9, 2008 10:45 pm

thanks… I think this popular post plugin makes my IE error loading my website… Got no prob with FireFox though…
frasten Aprile 10, 2008 12:06 am

@JunkieYard Dot Com: now in version 0.4.0 you can add arguments to the function WPPP_show_popular_posts(), download the new version and read the docs above.
I’ll look into your error with IE.
Eagle Aprile 10, 2008 10:02 am

Hi

very nice plugin, but is it possible for me to add number of post views in front of the list of most view posts?
frasten Aprile 12, 2008 3:07 am

Hi, added to wishlist.
mahmut Aprile 12, 2008 12:31 pm

its reaally great.. i searched very long time. i find it. thank for your work..
iJohn Aprile 15, 2008 11:39 pm

Excellent Plugin!

I do have a suggestion tho for it. When I tried to install it on my blog, it changes the formatting for the title of the sidebar. Where it says Popular Posts it is aligned left and different text than my normal sidebar. Is there a way to change some formatting on it so it looks like the rest of my sidebar titles?
frasten Aprile 16, 2008 5:18 pm

@Eagle: implemented in v1.0
@iJohn: it should be fixed in v1.0. Now it is formatted by the theme. Let me know if it did the trick
Joanne Aprile 19, 2008 12:14 am

Thanks for this plugin. It’s working great.

I am having some troubles with customizing the formatting to match the stylesheet of my theme. When I call the function in my sidebar.php file, are the results returned with a tag or something? I seem to have a bullet point associated with each popular post item that I can’t seem to get rid of.

Thanks for your help,
J.

frasten Aprile 19, 2008 3:34 am

Hi!
Actually, every link is part of an unordered list:

<ul class='wppp_list'>
  <li><a href='#'>My first link</a></li>
  <li><a href='#'>My second link</a></li>
  ...
</ul>

So, you must follow these steps:
- download and install latest version, v1.0.1 (that addresses your issue)
- add something like this to your style.css file (in your theme folder):

ul.wppp_list li {
  list-style-type: none;
}

to remove the bullet.
(just tried on your site, with firebug, and it does the job).
If you know some CSS, you’ll be able to fully customize it.
Enjoy!