This depends what is meant by “popular” – page views or comment count. For the former, it would be necessary to store the view count for each page (for example in a custom field), which this plugin doesn’t provide. For the latter case, you can try something like:
[loop type="post" orderby="comment_count" count="3"]
This should show the top 3 most popular posts by the number of comments.
great thank you!
I will try the comment version you provided and hopefully the client will like this. If I do however need to do order them by hits and if I did find a way to store the hits in a custom field called “page-views”, could you provide me with example shortcode? and related to this, do you have some page other than the page that is built into my site showing more examples? Being so new to this, if I have some more ideas of how to use the variables, I could take this much further.
For the moment, there are only the included reference pages. Almost all parameters are explained there, although the information could be presented better. I plan to set up a site for the plugin with documentation and more examples – I’ll let you know when it’s ready.
If the page view count is stored in a custom field called page-views, you can display it with [field page-views].
Page view count is a common need, so I’ll see if I can come up with a simple solution – though it will probably take some time to release it.
