Title: [Plugin: Popular Posts] Stuck at “None Found”
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# [Plugin: Popular Posts] Stuck at “None Found”

 *  Resolved [archon810](https://wordpress.org/support/users/archon810/)
 * (@archon810)
 * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-popular-posts-stuck-at-none-found/)
 * Hi,
 * I’m actually facing the issue of the plugin never initializing and always saying“
   None Found” here: [http://www.androidpolice.com](http://www.androidpolice.com)–
   I’ve been working on the site for the last few months and just launched yesterday
   but the popular post data never got populated.
 * The wp_popularpostsdata table is empty in the database. Is there any troubleshooting
   I can do?
 * Thank you.
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/popular-posts-plugin/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/popular-posts-plugin/)

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 *  Thread Starter [archon810](https://wordpress.org/support/users/archon810/)
 * (@archon810)
 * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-popular-posts-stuck-at-none-found/#post-1437670)
 * I debugged and saw this main SQL statement:
    `SELECT *, meta_value + 0 AS viewcount
   FROM wp_posts LEFT JOIN wp_postmeta ON post_id = ID WHERE meta_key = 'pvc_views'
   AND post_status IN ('publish') AND post_type='post' AND post_password ='' AND(
   post_date >= DATE_SUB(CURDATE(), INTERVAL 2 year) OR post_type='page') ORDER 
   BY viewcount DESC LIMIT 0, 5;`
 * The problem is, wp_postmeta has no meta_key with the value pvc_views, or pvcANYTHING.
   This is why it’s failing. I reactivated the plugin but the value didn’t appear.
 * Note that I never added any calls to popular_posts_views() anywhere as instructions
   don’t say to do so. Looking into this further.
 *  Thread Starter [archon810](https://wordpress.org/support/users/archon810/)
 * (@archon810)
 * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-popular-posts-stuck-at-none-found/#post-1437822)
 * In short, the problem was a permission on the plugin dir wasn’t allowing writes.
   pvctracker.php and pvctracker.js were generated with something like dev.SERVER.
   com during development and apache was never able to modify them when I went live.
 * Maybe a check on the dir permission is due as I spent quite a bit of time on 
   this.
 * Thanks.
 * Artem
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 * Last reply from: [archon810](https://wordpress.org/support/users/archon810/)
 * Last activity: [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-popular-posts-stuck-at-none-found/#post-1437822)
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