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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frasten Aprile 28, 2008 11:42 pm

@Lealcy B. Junior: let’s try this:
edit the file stats.php, in the Wordpress.com Stats Plugin folder, and change line 543:

if ( !$stats_cache = get_option( 'stats_cache' ) )
  $stats_cache = array();

to:

$stats_cache = get_option( 'stats_cache' );
if ( !$stats_cache || !is_array( $stats_cache ) )
  $stats_cache = array();

and re-upload your wordpress.com stats plugin.

This could be a workaround; however if your blog receives many visits this could use some bandwidth (if your cache doesn’t work, it makes a requests to wordpress.com servers, on each visit).

Max Carvalho Aprile 29, 2008 8:34 pm

I was with this same problem. But now it is ok. Thanks for share this excellent plugin.
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Trisha Maggio 1, 2008 4:33 am

This is a really great plugin - thanks!

Any idea when you might update it to be able to exclude pages? I want to show only popular posts without pages being shown also…..for example, my “Home” page always shows up…
Thank you!
frasten Maggio 2, 2008 2:14 am

@Trisha, @Chris: Right now! download v1.1 above.
It’s a little hackish, but it should work fine.
Kes Maggio 2, 2008 2:34 am

Nice plugin. It works great.
This is a great option if you have WP-Cache installed and wanted functionally like WP-PostViews.

But one thing I’m missing, is to show the views for posts by category. How can I do that ?
Trisha Maggio 2, 2008 3:19 am

YAAY! It works! I’m so happy! I’m off to pay you a donation!
Trisha Maggio 2, 2008 3:28 am

frasten you should let people donate more than just the price of a cup of coffee - I wanted to send you more but it wouldn’t let me change the amount - I’ll come by in another day or so and buy you another cup!
frasten Maggio 2, 2008 3:51 am

Thank you! I really appreciated your donation, I’ll keep on working on these plugins!
And I edited the link for the donations, thank you for reporting.
Chris Maggio 2, 2008 10:14 am

Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant - well done. Exactly what I wanted. I’ll be winging you some cash on Paypal when I get five mins to sort. Top man.