Title: Hot&#039;n&#039;Cold
Author: Duke
Published: <strong>February 5, 2013</strong>
Last modified: September 12, 2016

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It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

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# Hot'n'Cold

 By [Duke](https://profiles.wordpress.org/dukessa/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/hotncold.zip)

 * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/hotncold/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/hotncold/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/hotncold/#installation)
 * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/hotncold/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/hotncold/)

## Description

#### Hot’n’Cold shows a different colored badge for every post, depending if the post is “hot”, “medium” or “cold”, based on Jetpack post views

 * The plugin requires Jetpack to be installed, activated and connected to your 
   WordPress.com account.

The typical/full code that you need to add to your theme, wherever you want the 
badge to display is `<?php shambix_hotposts(200,100,50,true,true,false); ?>`

The code MUST be used inside the Loop.

You can customize the code with these parameters, in order:

 * n. of views for the post to be “hot” (default: 200)
 * n. of views for the post to be “medium” (default: 100)
 * n. of views for the post to be “cold” (default: 50)
 * if “hot”, display badge? (default: true)
 * if “medium”, display badge? (default: true)
 * if “cold”, display badge? (default: false)

We use a css file to style the badges, as they are fully made out of CSS3, no images,
however we don’t provide any specific layout (floating, alignment, etc), that way
you are free to customize them the way you want, by using the div class `hotncold`
in your own theme style.css

If you like the plugin or want to suggest a new features, feel free to drop a comment
at the official plugin post on [Shambix](http://www.shambix.com/en/portfolio/wordpress-plugin-hotncold).

Credits to the [Twitter Bootstrap Framework](http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/components.html#labels-badges)
for the badges/labels’ CSS.

## Screenshots

 * [[
 * Example for the badges being displayed in a category

## Installation

 1. Upload the folder `hotncold` to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory
 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
 3. Insert the code `<?php shambix_hotposts(200,100,50,true,true,false); ?>` in your
    theme and customize it for your needs

## FAQ

#### Look of the badges

The default badges are:

 * “hot”: comes in red and displays the text “HOT!”
 * “medium”: comes in green and displays the text “Popular”
 * “cold”: comes in blue and displays the text “Read Me!”

As of now, you can only edit the text by going directly in the plugin file hotncold.
php

#### Custom CSS

You can customize the badges from the hotncold.css file in the plugin folder, if
you want to add images instead of using CSS3. However, if you update the plugin 
those changes will be lost. If you simply want to make the badges bigger or change
font (stylistic changes), we advise you do that in your theme style.css instead,
using the div class `hotncold`. You may want to add `!important` to your CSS statements,
if after customizing the div class `hotncold` you see no change.

#### NOTICE

Please bare in mind that this is a free plugin, that the time to work on it is limited
and that we do our best anyway to give everybody a cool free plugin. So if something
doesn’t work as you expected please report it in the WordPress Support Forum, we’ll
do our best to help you out. Thanks for understanding.

## Reviews

There are no reviews for this plugin.

## Contributors & Developers

“Hot'n'Cold” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this
plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Duke ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/dukessa/)

[Translate “Hot'n'Cold” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/hotncold)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/hotncold/), check out
the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/hotncold/), or subscribe 
to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/hotncold/) by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/hotncold/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 1.0

 * Plugin release

## Meta

 *  Version **1.0**
 *  Last updated **10 years ago**
 *  Active installations **Fewer than 10**
 *  WordPress version ** 3 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **3.5.2**
 * Tags
 * [badge](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/badge/)[jetpack](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/jetpack/)
   [popular posts](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/popular-posts/)[popularity](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/popularity/)
   [post views](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/post-views/)[stats](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/stats/)
   [tag](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/tag/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/hotncold/advanced/)

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## Contributors

 *   [ Duke ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/dukessa/)

## Support

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 [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/hotncold/)

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