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WordPress Popular Posts

With WordPress Popular Posts, you can show your visitors what are the most popular entries on your blog.

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  • I'm getting "Sorry. No data so far". What's up with that? There are a number of reasons that might explain why you are seeing this message: WordPress Popular Posts won't count views generated by logged in users (if your blog requires readers to be logged in to access its contents, this tutorial is for you); your current theme does not have the wp_header() tag in its <head> section, required by my plugin to keep track of what your visitors are viewing on your site; no one has seen your posts/pages since WordPress Popular Posts activation, you should give it some time. WordPress Popular Posts works based on views, mainly. Whenever a post gets a view, WPP will register it on its cache table. Only those posts registered by my plugin will be listed. It doesn't really make much difference if a post has got a lot of comments or not if it hasn't been cached by my plugin - it still needs to be viewed by someone/people in order to rank as popular.

  • I'm unable to activate the "Display post thumbnail" option. Why? Make sure that: your host is running PHP 4.3 or higher; the GD library is installed and enabled by your host; your theme has been enabled to use the Featured Images functionality.

  • I'm seeing a "No thumbnail" image, where's my post thumbnail? Make sure you have assigned one to your posts (either by attaching an image to your post or selected one using the Featured Images functionality), otherwise my plugin will show this image by default.

  • Can I embed my most popular posts in any other ways than via sidebar widgets? Yes. You have two other ways to achieve this: via shortcode [wpp] (so you can embed it directly on your posts / pages), or via template tag.

  • What are the parameters that the wpp_get_mostpopular() template tag and the [wpp] shortcode accept? You can find a complete list of parameters via wp-admin > Settings > WordPress Popular Posts under the section "What attributes does WordPress Popular Posts shortcode [wpp] have?".

  • I would like to clear WordPress Popular Posts cache and start over. How can I do that? If you go to wp-admin > Settings > WordPress Popular Posts, you'll find two buttons that should do what you need: Clear cache and Clear all data. The first one just wipes out what's in cache, keeping the historical data intact (All-time). The latter, wipes out everything from WordPress Popular Posts data tables - even the historical data. Note that this cannot be undone.

  • Does your plugin include any css stylesheets? Yes, but there are no predefined styles (well, almost). WordPress Popular Posts will first look into your theme's folder for the wpp.css file and use it if found so that any custom CSS styles are not overwritten, otherwise will use the one bundled with the plugin. It's up to you to style your most popular posts list as you like. You might need a hand with that if you don't know HTML/CSS, though.

  • Each time WordPress Popular Posts gets updated, the stylesheet gets reset. You need to copy your custom wpp.css to your theme's folder, otherwise my plugin will use the one

  • Would you help me style my list, please? For a small donation, sure why not?

  • I want to remove WPP's stylesheet. How can I do that? Simply add the following code to yout theme's functions.php file:

add_action('wp_head', 'remove_wpp_stylesheet', 1); function remove_wpp_stylesheet() { global $wp_widget_factory; remove_action( 'wp_head', array($wp_widget_factory->widgets['WordPressPopularPosts'], 'wpp_print_stylesheet') ); }

  • I want your plugin to have x or y functionality. Would you do it for me? I usually accept suggestions, yes. However, if it doesn't fit the nature of my plugin (to list popular posts) or requires something that might affect other users' experiences, chances are that I won't implement it. However, I could cook up a customized version of WordPress Popular Posts just for you if you really, really need that special feature/capability ... but it won't be for free.

  • I want to translate your plugin into my language / help you update a PO file. What do I need to do? There's a PO file included with WordPress Popular Posts. If your language is not already supported by my plugin, you can use a gettext editor like Poedit to translate all definitions into your language. If you want to, you can send me your resulting PO and MO files to me at cabrerahector dot com so I can include them on the next release of my plugin.

  • Help! I'm having some issues with your plugin! What should I do? Please don't, and read my words carefully, don't use my email address to contact me for support (unless I authorize you to do so). It'll surely be of more help for other people running into similar issues if you posted your doubts/questions/suggestions on the WordPress Popular Posts Support forums (please be as descriptive as possible)!

Requires: 2.8 or higher
Compatible up to: 3.2.1
Last Updated: 2011-12-5 Downloads: 295,758

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