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. … Read more
I am using this code to show 3 most popular posts based on number of comments : <?php $pop_posts = 3; $popularposts = “SELECT $wpdb->posts.ID, $wpdb->posts.post_title, COUNT($wpdb->comments.comment_post_ID) AS ‘stammy’ FROM $wpdb->posts, $wpdb->comments WHERE comment_approved = ‘1’ AND $wpdb->posts.ID=$wpdb->comments.comment_post_ID AND post_status=”publish” AND comment_status=”open” GROUP BY $wpdb->comments.comment_post_ID ORDER BY stammy DESC LIMIT “.$pop_posts; $posts = $wpdb->get_results($popularposts); if($posts){ … Read more
I’ve installed WordPress Popular Posts plugin but found that it displays popular posts only from category. I want to display popular post for custom taxonomy. I found some hack in that plugin. Plugin might be work with custom taxonomy replacing category to custom taxonomy name. So I’m thinking to install same plugin twice with minor … Read more
I am creating a new wordpress blog. I want to make two pages on the blog. One page to display the popular post and another page to display the recent post. Popular post should be affected according to the page view, social share, comments. Once the post is shown on the popular page it should … Read more
I am using the Jetpack plugin to get ‘site stats’ which shows the number of views for blog posts/pages. So I’m no expert or anything but I’m guessing there is a table that stores these views. Is there a way to manipulate this data to create a simple list of the most popular posts by … Read more
I have a multisite network on WP 3.3.1. I now need to get all popular posts from across this network (preferably based on the amount of views). Is this possible, and how do I do that? 2 Answers 2 simple list all last post about the network, not the popular posts; for popular posts you … Read more
Hey i wanted to display the 5 most popular post by view count in my sidebar, but i don’t want to use a plugin, i want the php function so that i can edit it manually such as adding thumbnails next to the title, any idea where i can find this code 1 Answer 1 … Read more
I use the Ribbon theme that has a nice tabbed widget showing the most popular and most recent posts. I would like to limit the most popular posts to the last 12 months. I would rather not use a plugin for that but change the code in the theme file. The query is like so: … Read more
I am going to implement a Hot and Trending section on a website. I have seen such sections on many popular websites but can’t really figure out how exactly this works. Although I assumed Hot section is most popular posts (based on post views) which I developed by a custom WP_Query. And it works. $args … Read more
I’m trying to sort the popular posts so it shows the most visited in the last week, but it hasn’t worked. Anyone have an idea of why it isn’t working? <?php $popularpost = new WP_Query( array ( ‘posts_per_page’ => 5, ‘ignore_sticky_posts’ => 1, ‘meta_key’ => ‘sw_post_views_count’, ‘orderby’ => ‘meta_value_num’, ‘order’ => ‘DESC’, ‘date_query’ => array … Read more
