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1. erikajurney
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   I've been using the 'How do I add a Top Posts widget to my blog?' trick from the bottom of this page http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/stats/faq/

   I finally figured out why it stopped working for me (the way I use it) a few days ago - the post_id variable in the array stopped being set.

   For the home page it is being set to 0, and for all other pages I checked it is just empty. var_dump($top_posts) to see what I mean.

   Is this coming back - I really need it.

   Thanks,
   Erika

2. tech-otaku
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Same here.

   I noticed that post_title is also blank and post_permalink is set to the same root URL for every post. Here's the info returned for my site:

   post_id,post_title,post_permalink,views
   ,,http://www.tech-otaku.com/,4221
   ,,http://www.tech-otaku.com/,4127
   ,,http://www.tech-otaku.com/,2508
   0,Home page,http://www.tech-otaku.com/,2307
   ,,http://www.tech-otaku.com/,2195
   ,,http://www.tech-otaku.com/,1719

   Would be nice to know if this is going to be fixed.

   Thanks, Steve

3. erikajurney
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   FYI, post_title and post_permalink are working fine for me.

   Anyone know if this forum is read by people who can fix or explain this problem?

   Thanks,
   Erika

4. tech-otaku
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Erika,

   Have installed the Jetpack plugin which I believe supersedes the WordPress.com Stats plugin.

   My stats appear to be showing correctly on the WP Dashboard and the information I'm getting using the API is a little better.

   While I'm seeing post_id for some of my posts now, those posts have the correct post_title and post_permalink. The others without post_id still have other erroneous data.

   Regards, Steve.

5. erikajurney
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   OK, now things are changing... post_id is there (yay) but post_permalink doesn't respect the permalink format of the blog. It is in the http://BLOGURL/?p=24087 format.

   That I can live with, but I'm still going to wait a day or so before turning this all back on on my site. Since I haven't seen an official post about what is going on, I don't know if post_id will *keep* working or not.

   But like I said, 'yay' for the return of post_id.

   Thank you mystery programmer!
   Erika

6. erikajurney
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Good grief, I posted too soon. Now post_title is gone...

   I'll look at this again tomorrow ;)

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