Wordpress Popular Posts
Wordpress Popular Posts is a sidebar widget to show the most popular posts in your blog. Many options has been included in it so you can customize it to your likings.
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Features
- Widget’s title is by default Popular Posts. However, you can change it to whatever you want.
- Wordpress Popular posts will display up to 10 entries by default. This setting can be changed as well.
- It can also display comment count for each entry. Enabled by default.
- If you want to, you can limit the amount of characters displayed for each entry listed. If activated, you can also limit the excerpt to display a certain number of characters (25 by default). Disabled by default.
Installation
- Download the plugin and extract its contents.
- Upload the `wordpress-popular-posts` folder to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory.
- Activate Wordpress Popular Posts plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
- In your admin console, go to Design > Widgets (or Presentation > Widgets for Wordpress 2.3 and lower), and drag the Wordpress Popular Posts widget to wherever you want it to be, and click Save Changes.
- optional - In your admin console, go to Design > Widgets (or Presentation > Widgets for Wordpress 2.3 and lower), click Edit on Popular Posts and customize it to your likings. Once you’re done with it, click on Change and then on Save Changes.
Placing Wordpress Popular Posts in your templates
If you want to use Wordpress Popular Posts in your templates and not as a widget, simply place ` < ?php get_mostpopular(’Title’, number of posts); ? >` (without the white spaces!), where title is how you want to name your popular posts list, and number of posts is the amount of entries you want to display on your list (eg. `< ?php get_mostpopular(’Popular Posts’, 10); ? >`).
Release History
- 1.2
Added extra functionalities to Wordpress Popular Post plugin core. - 1.1
Fixed bug in the plugin’s core (comments count feature) - 1.0
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This would really be great if it counted popularity by visits insted comments
@Bruce: Good idea, Bruce. However, I believe that the true popularity of a post can be measured by the number of comments. Participation is what we bloggers want.
Anyways, I’ll see into this once I get some time and maybe release a new plugin with this approach.
Thanks for your comments!
Fantastic plugin. I installed it, tweaked it, it works perfectly fine (unlike all the previous ones I installed…)
Keep up the good work !
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@Ikki that would be great. Thinking maybe i must be old or something or I have the wrong idea beacause I feel the more who see it is what it is. Interaction isn’t always advisable. I mean do you want your tax preparer really giving you auto advice? Or your mechanic giving you tax advice?
Maybe if you could put a way to have if use one or the other, comments or hits? That would be great. I like the idea and have wanted this kind of a plug in but my blog doesn’t get a lot of comments but i feel i get enough traffic (5oo+ hits a day). Comments aren’t left in my opinion I either suck or people are reading the info and just taking it in and moving on. I get email questions all the time but not comments.
Thanks
@Bruce: I’m already working on something. I think you’re going to like it
You migth want to check back later.
Thanks I am waiting and anxious.
hi. Thanks for plugin
perfect.
Regards
oh! thanks
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I’m having no luck with this thing. First off, it’s not accepting parameters, as you describe them. Here’s what I tried:
<?php get_mostpopular(’title=&number-of-posts=5&show-excerpt=true’); ?>
Second, I’d like to know how to eliminate your title entirely, so I can use my own headline, and third, I’d like to get rid of your <ul></ul> tags, but don’t know where to find them.
Can you offer some more documentation here?
Thanks.
Is it necessary have the “wordpresscom stats”?
@slobjones: Hi there,
It appears to me that you missed the documentation on how to use the function and its parameters properly. You’re doing it wrong, my friend. It goes like this: get_mostpopular(’Popular Posts’, 5, TRUE);.
About the title, you can customize it via parameters. Again, please read the documentation.
@Pluw: nope, it’s not necessary at all.
Thanks for the plugin
it is really nice a very good
plugin
ikki, this is a great initiative and step from you. I really appreciate your effort to share your plugin and investing time to write the docs, support, maintenance..etc.
Keep it up!
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@Wakish: Thanks! Developing this plugin has been a really, really nice experience. Actually, the lack of updates on my blog in the last couple of days is because I’ve been busy maintaining Wordpress Popular Posts
This whole thing has make me want to spend some more time on developing other new plugins to share with the entire Wordpress community. Hopefully, I’ll come up with two more in the upcoming months.
Thanks for your words!
Yes Ikki, I understand, developing/coding takes a whole lot of time and energy also. I’m sure you will bring some more exciting plugins
Cheers!
Any chance you’re going to update it so we can determine most popular posts by some other way than the number of comments? If you could it would be really impressive.
@WP Contempo: Yup. I’ll be introducing a couple of new changes soon about it. Maybe in two weeks after some testing.
Simple and great!
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Is it possible to tweak the plugin such that it displays popular post for a month ? OR monthly popular posts ?
@Arun Sharma Chintalapati: Unfortunately, not at the moment. However that’s a very good idea! I might implement this on a future release.
Thanks for the tip!
Great plugin, just wondering how I would go about removing the widget title? Example: Popular Posts, I don’t want no title.
Cheers
Hi Chris,
Thanks for your comments. About the title thing, current version -as you know- forces a title. This has been fixed in version v1.3 which will be out pretty soon (probably in a week from now after some tests).
Best regards.
Great plugin. I installed it but I can’t find the way to convert Popularity Contest data to continues use on your plugins, can you make it on?
Thanks, Narga! About the Popularity Contest Plugin data, I’ll do some research and see what I can do about it.
Your belief is msplaced regarding commentary metrics especially if comments have been turned off by many site operators.
…and that’s why I’m working on a new version of Wordpress Popular Posts, Steve
If you check my sidebar, you’ll notice that there are some new metrics.