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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Eagle Aprile 20, 2008 12:47 pm

I can’t see comments?
frasten Aprile 20, 2008 4:16 pm

Huh? What kind of comments?
Joanne Aprile 21, 2008 9:59 pm

@frasten: Thanks! The information about the wppp_list class is exactly what I needed. It’s working great now - and I customized using CSS. All the best, and thanks again for the fast response.
Lealcy B. Junior Aprile 23, 2008 10:52 pm

I activated the plugin, but when I go to wp-admin/widgets.php to add the widget, I got this error:

Fatal error: Only variables can be passed by reference in ~/public_html/wp-content/plugins/stats.php on line 548

WordPress.org 2.5.0
WordPress.com Stats 1.2.1
frasten Aprile 24, 2008 12:22 am
Hi, it’s a Wordpress.com Stats issue.
However, I looked at the code, and this happens when you have a corrupted stats cache.
To fix it you have to manually execute (via phpMyAdmin or similar) this query, in your WordPress database:
```
DELETE FROM wp_options WHERE option_name = 'stats_cache'
```
Next time you reload the page, the cache will be re-created and it should work as expected.
Eagle Aprile 24, 2008 3:25 pm

that time I check this page, I couldn’t see the comments, but now I have them,

by wish list you mean, you gonna add it later, or we have now, and just need to do some configuration?

thanks alot
Lealcy B. Junior Aprile 24, 2008 5:01 pm

frasten, after I delete stats_cache, I got the widgets.php to work, but after I added the widget to a sidebar, the error returned. I had to disable the plugin.
frasten Aprile 24, 2008 6:04 pm

@Eagle: the wishlist is a feature request list that I keep.
However your request was implemented in v1.0.
To put the number of post views you can customize the widget options, changing the format to something like:
<a href='%post_permalink%' title='%post_title%'>%post_title% (%post_views%)</a>

@Lealcy B. Junior: something must be wrong with your installation of Wordpress.com Stats.
Your cache gets broken every time it is recreated.

Try to contact the authors at http://andyskelton.com and/or http://blogwaffe.com.
Lealcy B. Junior Aprile 24, 2008 7:26 pm

Yes, I think so. Any directions?
Eagle Aprile 25, 2008 1:14 pm

It works, you are gr8

thanks alotttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt