Wordpress Popular Posts

Posted on Nov, 19 2008 by Héctor Cabrera

Wordpress Popular PostsWordpress 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 liking.

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Features

  • Wordpress popular posts is highly customizable. You can set its title (or leave it blank if you don’t want to use any), how many entries to show, whether to display or not comments count and/or pageviews for each entry listed, and to show (or not) an excerpt of each post’s title.
  • List your posts either by comment count, pageviews or average daily views. Sorted by comment count by default.
  • You can also list those pages of your blog (About, Services, Archives, etc.) that are getting a lot of attention from your readers. Enabled by default.
  • Wordpress Popular Posts comes with an Admin page where you can manage all its settings!
  • [NEW FEATURE]: Wordpress Popular Posts is now localized! Currently supported languages: English (default), Russian and Spanish.
  • [NEW FEATURE]: Time Range - list your most popular posts within a specific time range (eg. today’s popular posts, this week’s popular posts, etc.)!

Installation

  1. Download the plugin and extract its contents.
  2. Upload the `wordpress-popular-posts` folder to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory.
  3. Activate Wordpress Popular Posts plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
  4. 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.
  5. 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. [NEW FEATURE] You can now also change its settings using WPP Admin page.

Placing Wordpress Popular Posts in your templates

If you want to use Wordpress Popular Posts anywhere in your templates, simply place ` < ?php get_mostpopular(); ? >` where you want it to be displayed. Easy, huh?

Localization

Want to help localize Wordpress Popular Posts into your language? This is what you need to do:

  1. Get the latest version of Wordpress Popular Posts.
  2. In the ‘wordpress-popular-posts‘ directory, you’ll find a file called wordpress-popular-posts.po. Copy it and rename it to something like wordpress-popular-posts-es_ES.po, where es_ES is the locale identifier that you specify in wp-config.php (WPLANG). Alternatively, you just might want to download and update the PO files listed below.
  3. Using a PO editor like POEdit, translate all the strings into your language. To do so, simply select a string and translate it using the box below.
  4. Once you’re done with it, click the button “Save Catalog” (or Menu->File->Save). A .mo file will be created (eg. wordpress-popular-posts-es_ES.mo, notice the es_ES part?).
  5. Then, place the .mo file inside the ”wordpress-popular-posts‘ directory. Enjoy!
  6. * Optional * Send me both .po and .mo files so I can include them on the next release of Wordpress Popular Posts. To do so, please contact me using this form for further instructions.

Currently supported languages:

Release History

  • 1.4
    • Massive code enhancement. CSS bugs fixed. Features added: Time Range; author and date (stats tag); separate settings for Widget and Code Snippet.
    • 1.4.1
      Found database bug affecting only new installations.
    • 1.4.2
      Code snippet bug found.
    • 1.4.3
      Korean and Swedish are supported.
    • 1.4.4
      HTML Markup customizer added. Removed some unnessesary files.
    • 1.4.5
      Added new localizable strings. Fixed Admin page coding bug that was affecting the styling of WPP.
  • 1.3
    • Added an Admin page for a better management of the plugin. New sorting options (sort posts by comment count, by pageviews, or by average daily views).
    • 1.3.1
      Widget bug fixed. Firefox bug fixed (thanks, Yanik!).
    • 1.3.2
      Permalink bug fixed (thanks, Smartphone!).
  • 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