How to Change Loop to Order Posts by Views (using wp-postviews plugin)

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I hope somebody would be kind enough to help. I currently have a page that orders all of the posts by comment count, but I want to change the loop to order the posts by view count. I have installed the ‘wp-postviews.1.50’ plugin and have got it to display the number of views on each post, so I know that side of it is working, now I just need the loop code changed to order by most views, is this possible?

This is the how the number of views is called out:

<?php $views = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'views', true); ?><?php echo $views; ?>

And here is the loop I need changed:

<?php $posts_per_page = get_query_var('posts_per_page'); ?>
<?php $paged = intval(get_query_var('paged')); ?>
<?php $paged = ($paged) ? $paged : 1; ?>
<?php $args = array(
'posts_per_page' => $posts_per_page,
'paged' => $paged,
'more' => $more = 0,
'orderby' => 'comment_count',
'order' => 'DESC',
); ?>
<?php query_posts($args); ?>
<?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post() ;?>
<div <?php post_class() ?> id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">

Thanks in advance for any help with this.

I’m using WordPress 3.0.4.

4 Answers
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Just wanted to give an update. Someone was kind enough to show me how to update the code I posted above. It turned out to be quite simple (if you know what you’re doing!). So I have posted it below for anyone that wants to do something similar. 

<?php $posts_per_page = get_query_var('posts_per_page'); ?>
<?php $paged = intval(get_query_var('paged')); ?>
<?php $paged = ($paged) ? $paged : 1; ?>
<?php $args = array(
'posts_per_page' => $posts_per_page,
'paged' => $paged,
'more' => $more = 0,
'meta_key' => 'views',
'orderby' => 'meta_value_num',
'order' => 'DESC',
); ?>
<?php query_posts($args); ?>
<?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post() ;?>
<div <?php post_class() ?> id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">

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