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I’m using Jetpack to retrieve the number of views for each blog post.
Is there a way to use this to generate a call to the most viewed posts and list them?

I’ve been wanting to do that for a long time now and I’ve looked into various plugins, but I’d prefer to hardcode this. Is there a way to write a code so that I could utilize the view count provided by Jetpack?

I looked at similar questions here, but none of them has been answered. A few commenters suggested plugins, but those have been abandoned by now.
I couldn’t find any up-to-date information.

Right now I’m only calling the “view count” within my single.php like that:

<?php print_page_views(get_the_ID('')); ?>

For that I’m using a plugin called “Post ‘n Page Views” that requires Jetpack. I tried looking for the plugin in the WordPress Dabatase, but it doesn’t seem to exist anymore.

I really would appreciate any kind of advice or updated information on this.
Thank you so much!

1 Answer
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There is a Jetpack widget called Top Posts and Pages (Jetpack)

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If you check out the [source code][2] for this widget, you can see that it’s using the function stats_get_csv() to retrieve the stats:

$post_view_posts = stats_get_csv( 'postviews', array( 'days' => 2, 'limit' => 10 ) );

If you want to generate your custom most popular list, you can use for example: 

if(function_exists('stats_get_csv')){
        $popular = stats_get_csv( 'postviews', array( 'days' => 2, 'limit' => 10 ) );
        echo '<ol>';
        foreach ( $popular as $p ) {
                printf('<li><a href="https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/95847/%s">%s</a>(%d)</li>', $p['post_permalink'], $p['post_title'], $p['views'] );
        }
        echo '</ol>';
}

The function stats_get_csv( $table, $args = null ) is defined in:

http://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/jetpack/tags/2.2.6/modules/stats.php

where the data is fetched from

http://stats.wordpress.com/csv.php

Note that stats_get_csv is caching the data for 5 minutes.

For an example of the what the stats_get_csv outputs and the API description, please check out this great answer.

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