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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”

Ciao, io ho installato il plugin solo che non riesco a visualizzare i post più visti nonstante abbia gia installato wordpress.com stats e abbia gia cominciato a conteggiare i post più letti. Unico problema che quando vado nella bacheca mi visualizza si il grafico con le visite ma non mi visualizza i Top Posts, Top Searches e Most Active, ma se vado nel pannello completo invece questi dati me li visualizza. Non è che il problema della visualizzazione del widget dipenda da questo?ù

grazie in anticipo.

I just created a “Most Popular Pages By Category” modification for this plugin. Files/Instructions here:
http://robmalon.com/most-popular-pages-by-category-dynamic-wordpress-hack/

It would be awesome of this was implemented into the plugin as part of the official release. I also made a suggestion in my post to extend the plugins ability to accept multiple categories. I didn’t have a need for this, but it wouldn’t be hard to do. I’ll even do it if there are enough requests.

Thanks for providing the plugin in the first place!

@Rob Malon: Many, many thanks to your contribution: I’ve committed your code into the trunk yesterday, now I must test and document it. 🙂

Good job dude! (B)

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Hi, I’m using the lastest versions of both WordPress and WordPress Stats and having the same problem that was discussed at http://polpoinodroidi.com/wordpress-plugins/wordpresscom-popular-posts/all-comments/#comment-1634. Added to the sidebar, the widget does show its title, but no posts below. There doesn’t seem to be any technical problem, except that the traffic’s extremely low. Like, if a post has been viewed 4 times by far, and still has more traffic than every post else, doesn’t it count as a “popular post,” maybe? Because it’s not absolutely popular, only relatively so? If that is the case, as I hope it is, I have no problem waiting for more traffic. Otherwise, well…

Frasten,
Very nice plug-in.
I am having trouble getting this to work on my site.
I was using an older version of WP Stats, so I upgraded that to the most current version (1.3.5), and am running popular post version 1.3.4. My WP is version 2.3.
The stats are now populating the stats page, and I checked under top posts and pages and there is data there – under all of the tabs as well – 7 Days 30 Days Quarter Year All Time and they all have data.

The code I am using on my site is on single.php and looks like this:

<?php WPPP_show_popular_posts( “title=Most popular stories on Muckety&number=10&format=%post_title%” );?>

The only thing that shows up when I view my blog is:
Most popular stories on Muckety

There are no stories under the heading…

Do you have any ideas about what I might be doing wrong?

Thanks for your help.
/john

Hi,

Great plugin, thanks! Just wondering, how would I put bullets in front of each entry? When it’s showing the title and the first 100 characters, they all sort of run together. I’d like to add a bullet point in front of each of the 5 entries on the sidebar widget to differentiate each post. Could you tell me how to do this?

Thx!

@Zinni: sorry, I forgot about your mail. However after checking your output, everything seems ok… Are you still experiencing the same issues?

@rg11, Hee, John D: can you try this procedure and mail me the results?

@Invisible121: nice suggestion. It doesn’t provide a RSS at this time, but I’ve added it to the wishlist.

@Rebecca: I think you have some problems with your CSS stylesheet, maybe your li items are set to display: inline?

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