Title: [Plugin: WordPress Popular Posts] Suggestion: include_posts parameter
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# [Plugin: WordPress Popular Posts] Suggestion: include_posts parameter

 *  [poetter](https://wordpress.org/support/users/poetter/)
 * (@poetter)
 * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wordpress-popular-posts-suggestion-include_posts-parameter/)
 * Hi,
 * first of all thanks to Ikki24 for this very useful plugin.
 * I needed the functionality to just include specific post ids. I modified the 
   plugins code to do so. I would very much appreciate if you could include this
   functionality into the plugin directly, so that i don’t have to modify each new
   version.
 * Cu, poetter
 * Here is a unified diff of the modification:
 *     ```
       --- D:/wordpress-popular-posts/wordpress-popular-posts.php	Wed Jul 14 18:52:38 2010
       +++ D:/wordpress-popular-posts_mod/wordpress-popular-posts.php	Mon Dec 13 19:07:37 2010
       @@ -158,6 +158,8 @@
        			$instance['post-excerpt']['keep_format'] = $new_instance['post-excerpt-format'];
        			$instance['exclude-cats']['active'] = $new_instance['exclude-cats'];
        			$instance['exclude-cats']['cats'] = empty($new_instance['excluded']) ? '' : (ctype_digit(str_replace(",", "", $new_instance['excluded']))) ? $new_instance['excluded'] : '';
       +			$instance['include-posts']['active'] = $new_instance['include-posts'];
       +			$instance['include-posts']['posts'] = empty($new_instance['included']) ? '' : (ctype_digit(str_replace(",", "", $new_instance['included']))) ? $new_instance['included'] : '';
        			if ($this->thumb) { // can create thumbnails
        				$instance['thumbnail']['active'] = $new_instance['thumbnail-active'];
        				$instance['thumbnail']['thumb_selection'] = empty($new_instance['thumb_selection']) ? "wppgenerated" : $new_instance['thumb_selection'];
       @@ -211,6 +213,10 @@
        					'active' => false,
        					'cats' => ''
        				),
       +				'include-posts' => array(
       +					'active' => false,
       +					'posts' => ''
       +				),
        				'thumbnail' => array(
        					'active' => false,
        					'width' => 15,
       @@ -602,8 +608,13 @@
        			} else {
        				$exclude = "";
        			}
       -
       -			$mostpopular = $wpdb->get_results("SELECT $wpdb->posts.ID, $wpdb->posts.post_title $fields FROM $wpdb->posts $join WHERE $wpdb->posts.post_status = 'publish' AND $wpdb->posts.post_password = '' AND $range $force_pv $nopages $exclude GROUP BY $wpdb->posts.ID ORDER BY $sortby DESC LIMIT " . $instance['limit'] . "");
       +
       +			if ( $instance['include-posts']['active'] && !empty($instance['include-posts']['posts']) ) {
       +				$include = " AND $wpdb->posts.ID IN (". $instance['include-posts']['posts']. ")";
       +			} else {
       +				$include = "";
       +			}
       +			$mostpopular = $wpdb->get_results("SELECT $wpdb->posts.ID, $wpdb->posts.post_title $fields FROM $wpdb->posts $join WHERE $wpdb->posts.post_status = 'publish' AND $wpdb->posts.post_password = '' AND $range $force_pv $nopages $exclude $include GROUP BY $wpdb->posts.ID ORDER BY $sortby DESC LIMIT " . $instance['limit'] . "");
   
        			$content = '';
   
       @@ -1000,6 +1011,7 @@
        				'excerpt_length' => 0,
        				'excerpt_format' => 0,
        				'cats_to_exclude' => '',
       +				'posts_to_include' => '',
        				'thumbnail_width' => 0,
        				'thumbnail_height' => 0,
        				'thumbnail_selection' => 'wppgenerated',
       @@ -1042,6 +1054,10 @@
        				'exclude-cats' => array(
        					'active' => empty($cats_to_exclude) ? false : (ctype_digit(str_replace(",", "", $cats_to_exclude))) ? true : false,
        					'cats' => empty($cats_to_exclude) ? '' : (ctype_digit(str_replace(",", "", $cats_to_exclude))) ? $cats_to_exclude : ''
       +				),
       +				'include-posts' => array(
       +					'active' => empty($posts_to_include) ? false : (ctype_digit(str_replace(",", "", $posts_to_include))) ? true : false,
       +					'posts' => empty($posts_to_include) ? '' : (ctype_digit(str_replace(",", "", $posts_to_include))) ? $posts_to_include : ''
        				),
        				'thumbnail' => array(
        					'active' => empty($thumbnail_width) ? false : (is_numeric($thumbnail_width)) ? (($thumbnail_width > 0) ? true : false) : false,
       ```
   

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