WordPress.com Popular Posts

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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 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”

@Cody, @blog.situskamu.com:
Now (in v1.2) you can include a truncated version of the content:
just add %post_excerpt% to your format.
Example:

format=%post_title% (%post_views% views)

%content_excerpt%

@Hesam:
can you give me the link to an example post that is giving problems?
I’ll try to track your issue. Thank you! 😛

@all:
From v1.2 there is multi-language support.
If you want to contribute, translate the file wordpresscom-popular-posts.pot in the language folder, and send it to me.

It doesn’t work with Persian (& Arabic) title characters. 🙁

@Omid:
Thank you for reporting. This could the same issue as Hesam’s.
I’ll try to fix it in the next version.

Greek characters also have some problems. I notice that if a post title starts with a greek character then the title is ommited.

Thanks

For some reason some of post titles under Popular Posts are not correct to the actual post title.

They seem to be showing up as the original Post Title while I was creating my post. Many times I end up changing the title and publishing it and the titles under Popular Posts don’t reflect the changes.

Also … I know this isn’t related to your Plug In but the same issue happens under the posts in “Categories” … but it’s always fine under “Recent Entries.” So this is probably a WordPress issue.

However if you know how to fix it .. I’d still appreciate it!

:o)

Hello.

I really like this plugin. :o)
In short words, I L (L) VE this plugin!

So, I am developing my a theme to use with this plugin.
What I’m trying to do is to display the popular post with its excerpt.
Ya, I’ve read all the comments too, but yet I don’t understand it.

Here is the out put I want.

Popular Post

Post Title (View)
Post Excerpt

What is the code should I use?
Thanks in advance.

p/s: I don’t have formal php lesson. 😛

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You mentioned above that

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:

You didn’t provide any code though after “files:”

You mentioned above that

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:

You didn’t provide any code though after “files:”

Hello sir,
Is this an answer to my question?
Well, thanks for replying. :o)

Yes my theme support widgets, and I know it is much-much-much more easy jut to put it in the sidebar.

Maybe I just create horizontal “sidebar” for my theme.

Thank you.
I’m still using it. 😀

Can we NOT have “Pages” but only posts show up in most popular on the sidebar?
Thanks!!

@Andrea:
I will fix this in next version of WordPress.com Popular Posts.

@Pangeran Wiguan:
You could use this format:

<a href='%post_permalink%' title='%post_title_attribute%'>%post_title% (%post_views% views)</a><br/>%post_excerpt%

If you aren’t happy with the length of the excerpt, you can set it in the widget options.

@Gautam:
Sorry, my fault! 🙂 Now it’s fixed.

@Rusty:
Yes, you can. Go to Design -> Widgets, and set Show: to only posts.

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Hi there. I’d really love to be able to use this plugin, but I’m experiencing a similar problem to Andrea.

Most of my popular posts are displaying the draft version instead on the published version format.

For example, I get titles loking like this:
27-05-08(12:28:41) (158 views)

And urls ending like this:
?p=918

The problem arose after I started using TDO Mini Forms plugin. Is there anyway to fix this as I’d really love to use both excellent plugins?

Regards

@Andrea, Will:
v1.3 should fix your issues. Download it above.

@Panagiotis, Hesam, Omid:
Can you try v1.3? It could fix your characters encoding issues. :-[