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by ILLID 3.9 (7 reviews)

Popularity Posts Widget

With help of this plugin you can display the most popular posts on your blog.

Popularity Posts Widget ranks #11,688 among WordPress.org plugins with 200+ active installations, is #305 of 1,974 in the Analytics category, a 3.9/5 rating from 7 reviews, and was last updated Mar 24, 2013. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.

Tested up to WP 3.5 (Current: 7.1)
v1.13 Current Version v1.13
Updated 13 years ago Last Update on 24 Mar, 2013
Refreshed 15 hours ago Last Refreshed on
#305 of 1,974 in Analytics Top 25% by installs No update in over a year
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Review 3.9 out of 5
3.9 (7 reviews)

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Reviews & Ratings

3.9
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Overall 78%
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Security History

Source: WPVulnerability

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TL;DR

AI summary of the plugin's readme

This plugin is for WordPress blog owners who want to highlight their most-read content. It solves the problem of surfacing popular posts by ranking them via views, comments, or dates over a chosen time range and displaying them in a widget, shortcode, or template tag.

  • Time range filtering
  • Flexible display settings
  • Thumbnail display
  • Categories filter
  • Custom CSS via ppw.css
  • Shortcode support
  • Template tag support

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about Popularity Posts Widget

It stores the user details every time a post is viewed, the totals are incremented so it will show the posts with the most hits in the widget.
99% of the time this is because no posts have been visited yet. Simply click on a blog post to read it on your blog and it will display in the list of most popular posts.
First of all plugin will try and use the Featured Image you have selected for each of your posts and use it to create a thumbnail. If none is set, Popularity Posts Widget will search for fist image of each post to create thumbnails. If there is no images in youre post, then "no_photo" image will be used instead.
Simple take PO file from languages folder and translate it into youre language witch help of some programs, such as Poedit. Then send me youre PO and MO files to mih.barinov at gmail dot com.
Yes, please do so on the WordPress support forum for the plugin. I will consider it and if I feel it is worth adding, I will schedule it for a future release.
You can use shortcode [ppw] for showing most popular posts in youre pages or posts. It can be used with some options, that you can see below, or without them (in this case will be used defaults ones). Usage: [ppw] [ppw range=all stats_views=1] If you can't or don't want to use widget - ppw_get_popular_posts() template tag is for you. Like and shortcode, it can be use with options or without them. Usage: Without any parameters: <?php if (function_exists('ppw_get_popular_posts')) ppw_get_popular_posts(); ?> Using parameters: <?php if (function_exists('ppw_get_popular_posts')) ppw_get_popular_posts("range=all&stats_views=1"); ?> Here is the list of available options: Parameter Description Possible values *head.................Sets a heading for the list............Text string *range................Time period for sorting: all time,.....'all'(default), *.....................last week, last month, today...........'weekly','monthly','today' *limit................Maximum number of posts to show........Positive integer *title_length.........Short each post title to 'n'...........Positive integer *.....................characters............................. *stats_comments.......Show comment count(1) or don't.........1 (true), 0 (false) *.....................show(0) for each post.................. *stats_views..........Show views count(1) or don't...........1 (true), 0 (false) *.....................show(0) for each post.................. *stats_date...........Show date(1) or don't show(0)..........1 (true), 0 (false) *.....................for each post.......................... *stats_date_format....Sets the date format(example:..........Text string *.....................'F j, Y', 'Y/m/d', 'm/d/Y')............ *category.............If set, plugin will retrieve...........Text string *.....................all entries that belong to the......... *.....................specified category(ies) ID(s).......... *thumbnail_width......If set, will display thumbnails........Positive integer *.....................for each post. This attribute.......... *.....................sets the width for thumbnails.......... *thumbnail_height.....If set, will display thumbnails........Positive integer *.....................for each post. This attribute.......... *.....................sets the height for thumbnails.........

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