Custom Day Range Not Applying
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You fixed an issue about a month ago where a user had set the range to 7 days, but it was showing top posts from the current day only. You released v 2.6.1 to fix this issue.
I am on v 2.6.2 and I am experiencing the exact same issue. I am using the widget, I set it to a very large 60 days, but it still shows only posts from today.
I removed the override in the widget and set the plugin itself (in settings) to 60 days and I still am only seeing stories with page views from today.
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Thanks for the response. I reset the settings in the plugin area. I then deleted the widget, then re-added the widget. I changed the settings to day range (and set it to 7) and ensured I saved settings. It still only shows top posts based on today’s views. I also tried 60 days, but still only shows the top posts based on today’s views.
I also double-checked my post view counts. The post with the most views in the last 60 days is definitely not showing up as the top post when I set the “Custom Time Period” to 60 days. The same is true for 7. “Custom Time Period” in the widget is always showing the top posts from today, no matter what value I set.
I also attempted to set the day range to 0 and the hours range to 168 (7 days) to see if that worked, but no go.
I have not tried version 2.6.1
Plugin Settings:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/4nynija14m70ycl/top10-plugin-settings.png?dl=0Widget Settings:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/6o3j7g6mq3pl4hi/top10-widget-settings.png?dl=0Ajay, I apologize for taking you down this rabbit trail, but I learned something. Correct me if I’m wrong, but it appears that if I go in and manually override the total page view count, that value is ignored in the daily range tracker, but it is calculated in “overall”.
When I installed the plugin, I went through all my URLs for each post in Google Analytics and gathered the page view values within a 60 day range. I then took these values and added them into your plugin’s page view count field, on each post (it took a while). I did this a little less than a week ago so I figured your plugin would count these as “page views within 7 days”. That is not the case.
I was hoping to simulate what was popular over the past 60 days, even though I didn’t have the plugin installed. Now that you’ve taken me through the various places your plugin tracks, I can see that the counters are all working properly, starting on the day the plugin was installed.
Is there any way to accomplish what I was trying to do? If not, it’s still a great plugin. Everything is self-hosted and I have access to the stack and file system.
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