Loop of Trending Posts

At the moment, this plugin doesn’t have a feature to track visitor views. It’s a good idea, and there’s been requests before for a way to display most recently viewed posts, so I think it would be a nice add-on.

Here are my thoughts so far. I’d like to make it a separate add-on, to keep this plugin from having too many features. The add-on can have:

1) Settings page to enable/disable view count for each post type
2) A few options for tracking: total views, daily views, trending within the last X days
3) The view count will be saved as fields in each post. They’ll be updated on every single view of post (not archive view).
4) And a way to clear the view count (for each post type?)

Displaying the view count, or getting posts based on most recently viewed or trending, can be handled by CCS using [loop] and [field].

I’m pretty busy these days, so it may take a while to put together – but I’ll let you know how it goes. It’d be great if you could “test drive” it. 🙂

Hi Jerrad (@jjgleim),

Please ping me by e-mail (my name on the left links to Contact), I’ve got a test version of view counts. It’s part of a bigger add-on library I’m working on, would love to hear your thoughts on it.