Hi there!
Thank you for the kind words!
My concern though is that I currently can’t find an answer to how I can integrate new postings published on my site with the plugins functions. This is an important part of my site since I want visitors to post on my site and get recognized immediately.
Since you want to encourage visitors to contribute to the site, it is important to make sure that the most popular among your newest articles are highlighted on your site. Fortunately, WPP has the ability to filter posts by freshness – that is, to list only those entries published in the Time Range (last 24 hours / 7 days / etc).
To do so:
- If you’re using the widget, go to Widgets > WordPress Popular Posts and enable the “Display only posts published within the selected Time Range” option under Filters.
- If you’re using either the wpp_get_mostpopular() template tag or the [wpp] shortcode, you need the
freshness parameter (for example: wpp_get_mostpopular( 'range=weekly&freshness=1' ); will give you the most popular posts published during the last 7 days).
I’d also enable the Display author option under Stats Tag settings if you’re using the widget, or the stats_author parameter for the wpp_get_mostpopular() template tag / [wpp] shortcode. If they see their name up there, they’ll want to keep sharing their articles and writing new ones.
Thank you for responding to my support thread so quickly.
Since you want to encourage visitors to contribute to the site, it is important to make sure that the most popular among your newest articles are highlighted on your site. Fortunately, WPP has the ability to filter posts by freshness – that is, to list only those entries published in the Time Range (last 24 hours / 7 days / etc).
Maybe I was not clear enough when I stated my concerns above. When my visitors(or myself) create a new post, the post itself has 0 views and are therefore not included with your plugin. Is there a way to include 0 views posts?
Ah, that’s a completely different thing.
Unfortunately the answer is no, there’s no way to achieve that. Popularity is calculated on visits and comments count, it would make little sense to have WPP list entries that haven’t been visited / commented yet.
What you’re after is something more like a “Recommended posts” kind of thing, or maybe you could just use the Recent Posts widget and use a title like “Just out of the oven!” or something similar to catch your visitors’ attention.
If I were you though, I’d do what I posted above: set Time Range to “Last 7 days” and enable the “Display only posts published within the selected Time Range” option to make sure only popular entries published within the last 7 days are listed. That’d have contributors competing against each other to attract readers to their articles.
Just a suggestion 🙂
