Title: Popularity Contest Plugin (beta) Last modified: August 18, 2016 --- # Popularity Contest Plugin (beta) * [alexkingorg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alexkingorg/) * (@alexkingorg) * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/popularity-contest-plugin-beta/) * The details: [http://www.alexking.org/blog/2005/05/23/popularity-contest/](http://www.alexking.org/blog/2005/05/23/popularity-contest/) * Please post bug reports and support questions here. Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 57 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/popularity-contest-plugin-beta/page/2/?output_format=md) [3](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/popularity-contest-plugin-beta/page/3/?output_format=md) [4](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/popularity-contest-plugin-beta/page/4/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/popularity-contest-plugin-beta/page/2/?output_format=md) * [normgregory](https://wordpress.org/support/users/normgregory/) * (@normgregory) * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/popularity-contest-plugin-beta/#post-208998) * At the bottom of the Most Popular Posts page I got this error message: * Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/httpd/vhosts/normgregory. com/subdomains/blog/httpdocs/wp-content/plugins/popularity-contest.php on line 941 * [xerocool](https://wordpress.org/support/users/xerocool/) * (@xerocool) * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/popularity-contest-plugin-beta/#post-209006) * Same here. * I get 2: * Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /usr/home/xerocool/domains/ r0x0rz.info/public_html/wp-content/plugins/popularity-contest.php on line 710 * and: /usr/home/xerocool/domains/r0x0rz.info/public_html/wp-content/plugins/popularity- contest.php on line 710 * and: /usr/home/xerocool/domains/r0x0rz.info/public_html/wp-content/plugins/popularity- contest.php on line 940 * I meant 3 ;). * Thread Starter [alexkingorg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alexkingorg/) * (@alexkingorg) * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/popularity-contest-plugin-beta/#post-209031) * Thanks, easy fix for next release. Looks like you have some categories without posts. * [Arlo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/arlo/) * (@arlo) * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/popularity-contest-plugin-beta/#post-209050) * How do I turn off showing the % in all the posts? I would only want to use it in the sidebar. * edit: nevermind..it helps to read the source 🙂 * Thread Starter [alexkingorg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alexkingorg/) * (@alexkingorg) * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/popularity-contest-plugin-beta/#post-209051) * From the README.txt: * > …read the installation instructions at the top of the plugin to disable showing > popularity for each post. * [Arlo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/arlo/) * (@arlo) * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/popularity-contest-plugin-beta/#post-209056) * I got these errors in the report page: * WordPress database error: [Got error 12 from storage engine] SELECT DISTINCT c.cat_name AS cat_name, AVG(pop.total) AS avg FROM wp_posts p LEFT JOIN wp_ak_popularity pop ON p.ID = pop.post_id LEFT JOIN wp_post2cat pc ON p.ID = pc.post_id LEFT JOIN wp_categories c ON pc.category_id = c.cat_ID GROUP BY c.cat_ID ORDER BY avg DESC * Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /www/a/automatorwor/htdocs/ wordpress/wp-content/plugins/popularity-contest.php on line 754 WordPress database error: [Got error 12 from storage engine] SELECT MONTH(p.post_date) AS month, AVG(pop.total) AS avg FROM wp_posts p LEFT JOIN wp_ak_popularity pop ON p.ID = pop.post_id WHERE YEAR(p.post_date) = ‘2005’ GROUP BY month ORDER BY avg DESC * Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /www/a/automatorwor/htdocs/ wordpress/wp-content/plugins/popularity-contest.php on line 774 WordPress database error: [Got error 12 from storage engine] SELECT MONTH(p.post_date) AS month, AVG(pop.total) AS avg FROM wp_posts p LEFT JOIN wp_ak_popularity pop ON p.ID = pop.post_id WHERE YEAR(p.post_date) = ‘2004’ GROUP BY month ORDER BY avg DESC * Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /www/a/automatorwor/htdocs/ wordpress/wp-content/plugins/popularity-contest.php on line 774 * Thread Starter [alexkingorg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alexkingorg/) * (@alexkingorg) * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/popularity-contest-plugin-beta/#post-209057) * Interesting – can you run that top SQL query on the database directly and let me know what the error from MySQL is? * [Arlo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/arlo/) * (@arlo) * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/popularity-contest-plugin-beta/#post-209062) * weird– I restarted the plugin and they’re gone now (I am still getting the two errors already described above). * This is working well for me now– quesiton: I’m using it in my sidebar like this, which gives me a nice “top 10” ordered list of posts in category 1. : `
    < php akpc_most_popular_in_cat(10,'
  1. ','
    2. ',1); ?>
` * I have a number of subcategories under a top-level category that doesn’t have the posts explicitly attached to them–as a way method to have an “invisible” category. Is there a way to use the top level cat and have all the sub-cats show in the list? Short of this, could there be a way to include multiple categories? * Thread Starter [alexkingorg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alexkingorg/) * (@alexkingorg) * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/popularity-contest-plugin-beta/#post-209069) * The example code included in sidebar.php makes it easy to make the list ‘category aware’ for a single category. However, there is no concept of showing multiple categories in the current code. * Feel free to add/edit as you like – it shouldn’t be hard to modify. * [Arlo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/arlo/) * (@arlo) * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/popularity-contest-plugin-beta/#post-209083) * Easy for you to say, I’m not a coder 🙂 * I’m setting up some conditional bits which mostly work, but “is_home” is going utterly ignored–it’s returning nothing on the home page, but “is_page” and “is_single” work fine: * ` ','',61); ?> * ',' '); ?> * ',' '); ?> * Ideas? * [karb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/karb/) * (@karb) * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/popularity-contest-plugin-beta/#post-209140) * Hi there, * Great plugin I too have the errors mention and yes I have categories not used. I also get it for ‘Last Year’ – Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/editor/public_html/news/wp-content/plugins/popularity-contest.php on line 940 * How do you limit ‘most popular posts’ in the side bar please? * Thanks * [cou](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cou/) * (@cou) * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/popularity-contest-plugin-beta/#post-209154) * Was looking forward to using this, but for some reason it’s altered something. My site now only displays one post per page – it has the “next page” links, but still only one post at a time. No other settings have been changed, no other files – deactivated the plugin, and deleted it from the server. * Ideas welcome, please! Can’t think what has [gone wrong](http://www.cricket.mailliw.com). * [wildduck](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wildduck/) * (@wildduck) * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/popularity-contest-plugin-beta/#post-209156) * Hi Alex Great plugin * I have the Line 940 error too * Keep coding ! * [karb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/karb/) * (@karb) * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/popularity-contest-plugin-beta/#post-209161) * Does this screw up feeds as my feedburner link no longer works I get: Error on line -1: Premature end of file. on Feedburner or do you think that is unrelated? * Thanks * Thread Starter [alexkingorg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alexkingorg/) * (@alexkingorg) * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/popularity-contest-plugin-beta/#post-209175) * cou – I don’t see the problem you describe on your site * Karb – I don’t see why it would hurt your feeds, however I’ve changed the plugin for the next release so that it doesn’t show popularity in the feeeds. I don’t think I understand you sidebar question. Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 57 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/popularity-contest-plugin-beta/page/2/?output_format=md) [3](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/popularity-contest-plugin-beta/page/3/?output_format=md) [4](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/popularity-contest-plugin-beta/page/4/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/popularity-contest-plugin-beta/page/2/?output_format=md) The topic ‘Popularity Contest Plugin (beta)’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [alex](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/alex/) * 57 replies * 15 participants * Last reply from: [alexkingorg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alexkingorg/) * Last activity: [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/popularity-contest-plugin-beta/page/4/#post-209316) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics