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 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
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   reply to: [[Plugin: WordPress Popular Posts] Remove the stylesheet](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wordpress-popular-posts-remove-the-stylesheet/)
 *  Thread Starter [mpiftex](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mpiftex/)
 * (@mpiftex)
 * [16 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wordpress-popular-posts-remove-the-stylesheet/#post-1459487)
 * Hey Ikki24,
    that was a quick reply as usual! 🙂
 * This is a quick, easy but unfortunately “dirty” fix! I’ve done that already but
   after every plugin update the line will be uncommented. I believe the remove_action
   method is the clean way to do it but I guess I’m doing something wrong…
 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
    In
   reply to: [[Plugin: WordPress Popular Posts] Template does not work in v2.0](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wordpress-popular-posts-template-does-not-work-in-v20/)
 *  Thread Starter [mpiftex](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mpiftex/)
 * (@mpiftex)
 * [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wordpress-popular-posts-template-does-not-work-in-v20/page/3/#post-1346308)
 * Just updated to v2.0.2 and the sorting problem has been fixed! The title_length
   is also fixed but I still can’t figure out the pattern attribute. Maybe it’s 
   just me doing something wrong but since I’m not using it this feature I’m not
   gonna sweat about it.
    Good job Ikki, thanks for all the support.
 * ps. I will switch this post to resolved now.
 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
    In
   reply to: [[Plugin: WordPress Popular Posts] Template does not work in v2.0](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wordpress-popular-posts-template-does-not-work-in-v20/)
 *  Thread Starter [mpiftex](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mpiftex/)
 * (@mpiftex)
 * [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wordpress-popular-posts-template-does-not-work-in-v20/page/3/#post-1346306)
 * Hey Ikki, I checked all the attributes except from rating since I don’t use WP-
   PostRatings.
    You might want to have another look at: title_length=n -> the number
   of characters printed is actually n+3 Also I couldn’t get to do the pattern to
   work. The code I used: `do_pattern=1&pattern_form='{title}: {summary} {stats}'`
   and in the output it was just ignored, getting a simple list formatted as if 
   these atrributes didn’t exist. Everything else seems to be working fine.
 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
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   reply to: [[Plugin: WordPress Popular Posts] Template does not work in v2.0](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wordpress-popular-posts-template-does-not-work-in-v20/)
 *  Thread Starter [mpiftex](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mpiftex/)
 * (@mpiftex)
 * [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wordpress-popular-posts-template-does-not-work-in-v20/page/3/#post-1346304)
 * Hey Ikki, timmos…
    I gave it another look and I think that Timmos is right about
   the order thing! I didn’t noticed before because coincidentally my most viewed
   posts are the most commented. I’ve tried views, avg, comments, and in all three
   the list is the same, ordered by the number of comments.
 * Timmoss, about the bullets thing. You might want to check if the some ul styling
   in the css removes the bullets. This is very likely if you reset the CSS or if
   the theme you’re using removes all the bullets in the lists in the sidebar. You
   should try this:
    In the code above, replace `wpp_start='<ul>'` with this `wpp_start
   ='<ul class=\"pop_posts\">'`. This will assign the class “pop_posts” to the list.
   Go to your css file and add:
 *     ```
       ul.pop_posts {list-style-type: disc;
       	margin-left:15px;}
       ```
   
 *  and see what happens. Alternatively you can add the whole function into a div.
   Something like:
 *     ```
       <div id="popular_posts">
       <?php if (function_exists("get_mostpopular")) get_mostpopular("range=all&......?>
       </div>
       ```
   
 * and in the css file add:
 *     ```
       #popular_posts ul{list-style-type: disc;
       	margin-left:15px;}
       ```
   
 * I hope this helps.
 * Truth, if you read this, can you please let us know if your list is sorted by
   comments or views? Thanks.
 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
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   reply to: [[Plugin: WordPress Popular Posts] Template does not work in v2.0](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wordpress-popular-posts-template-does-not-work-in-v20/)
 *  Thread Starter [mpiftex](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mpiftex/)
 * (@mpiftex)
 * [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wordpress-popular-posts-template-does-not-work-in-v20/page/2/#post-1346294)
 * That was super-detailed! Thanks Ikki!
    I thought that the default value for the
   range would be “all”, as soon as I’ve added it, the posts appeared! Great!! I
   would suggest you to add the default values in the attribute list.
 * For others who will use the function, here is my setup, with all the attributes
   that I’ve used:
 *     ```
       <?php if (function_exists("get_mostpopular")) get_mostpopular("header='Popular Posts'&header_start='<h4>'&header_end='</h4>'&range=all&order_by=views&limit=8&stats_comments=0&stats_views=0&wpp_start='<ul>'&wpp_end='</ul>'&post_start='<li>'&post_end='</li>'&pages=0"); ?>
       ```
   
 * This code exports something like this:
 *     ```
       <h4>Popular Posts</h4>
       <ul>
       <li>Post name here</li>
       <li>Another post here</li>
       .....
       </ul>
       ```
   
 * Once again, thanks Ikki for all the great work, for sticking behind your plugin
   and take into consideration the users’ desires! 🙂
 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
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   reply to: [[Plugin: WordPress Popular Posts] Template does not work in v2.0](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wordpress-popular-posts-template-does-not-work-in-v20/)
 *  Thread Starter [mpiftex](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mpiftex/)
 * (@mpiftex)
 * [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wordpress-popular-posts-template-does-not-work-in-v20/page/2/#post-1346292)
 * Hey Ikki24, thanks for dealing with this issue!
    I did update to v2.0.1 but now
   I’m having the same problem with the one mentioned [here](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/354820?replies=3).
   The list appears empty and I get the “Sorry. No data so far.” message. I downgraded
   again and the list appears correctly as it did before (no stats were deleted).
   I checked the mySQL db and the table _popularpostsdata still has entries, the
   _popularpostsdatacache is empty.
 * Can you please have another look at it?
    Thanks again.
 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
    In
   reply to: [[Plugin: WordPress Popular Posts] Template does not work in v2.0](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wordpress-popular-posts-template-does-not-work-in-v20/)
 *  Thread Starter [mpiftex](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mpiftex/)
 * (@mpiftex)
 * [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wordpress-popular-posts-template-does-not-work-in-v20/#post-1346108)
 * Thanks for the reply Ikki24 and thanks for all the time and effort you’ve put
   into the plugin, it’s really appreciated.
 * I really hope that in some point you’ll add this function again. I’m not a fan
   of widgets (I like to have full code control) and since I want the Popular posts
   list in the sidebar so for now I downgraded back to 1.5.1.
 * AutoKwame, I don’t think it’s possible to put it in a tabbed sidebar as a widget.
   Although I’m not completely sure. I know it is not suggested but maybe you should
   downgrade too (and keep you’re site intact) until a solution is found.
 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
    In
   reply to: [[Plugin: Relevanssi] utf-8 support](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-relevanssi-utf-8-support/)
 *  [mpiftex](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mpiftex/)
 * (@mpiftex)
 * [17 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-relevanssi-utf-8-support/#post-1139191)
 * This is really weird. First of all I changed line 645 as you said and all the
   greek words appear as questionmarks: ????. Same result in both blogs.
 * I repeated the experiment, new blog, same version and encoding and created a 
   few posts. Installed Relevanssi and now for every greek word I search for, all
   the posts are returned as results, even if the word does not exist in the post.
   Even if the “word” I search for is a random combination of 20 characters.
 * Now back to my first blog, which has real posts. After deleting the plugin and
   the tables in the db and reinstalling it, again no results are returned for any
   search in greek. Keeps working as it should when an english word is used.
 * In both blogs the posts are a combination of real posts that I have written and
   dummy test from the same site that you got your text. I don’t think it makes 
   a difference though. I played around with the db collation and the respective
   options in wp-config.php with no luck.
 * I understand that since you can’t see the problem you can’t just guess what it
   might be but I really appreciate you trying!
 *   Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
   
   In reply to: [List authors by posts?](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/list-authors-by-posts/)
 *  [mpiftex](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mpiftex/)
 * (@mpiftex)
 * [17 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/list-authors-by-posts/#post-1054155)
 * **MichaelH** you’re a life saver!! The code above works GREAT!! I’ve been searching
   for a way to do this for hours. Have you figured out by any chance if the code
   is efficient? Are there many db queries taking place? (I have no idea, just asking).
   Again, many thanks.
 * **igneous**, give it another try. Just copy paste it into your code and then 
   change the echo line to show the user info! You can use [this list](http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_userdata )
   to get the user information (name, url, etc) you need.
 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
    In
   reply to: [[Plugin: Relevanssi] utf-8 support](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-relevanssi-utf-8-support/)
 *  [mpiftex](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mpiftex/)
 * (@mpiftex)
 * [17 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-relevanssi-utf-8-support/#post-1139189)
 * I created a new blog (v2.8.2, utf8_general_ci) out of the box: default theme,
   no other plugin. Added a couple of posts in greek, installed Relevanssi and the
   same thing happens. No greek words indexed or found during search..
 * Too bad, because it seems to be a very helpful plugin (tested with english terms)!
   Back on the quest for finding a good search plugin then…
 * Thanks for your help msaari. If you can figure out what’s wrong and maybe have
   a fix in a latter version it will be great and I would be more than happy to 
   give it another try! If you have any ideas for a quick fix or something, I’ll
   be checking back this topic. Thanks for your time.
 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
    In
   reply to: [[Plugin: Relevanssi] utf-8 support](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-relevanssi-utf-8-support/)
 *  [mpiftex](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mpiftex/)
 * (@mpiftex)
 * [17 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-relevanssi-utf-8-support/#post-1139185)
 * Thanks for the reply msaari. It’s weird that it works for you!
    To answer you
   question, no all the indexed common words are english words.
 * I don’t know if it makes any difference but I have the latest WP version (2.8.2),
   the db encoding is utf8_general_ci and I’m running it locally, using XAMPP.
 * I was taking a look at the plugin tables and I noticed that in wp_relevanssi,
   under “terms” the vast majority of entries is empty. Is that normal?
 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
    In
   reply to: [[Plugin: Relevanssi] utf-8 support](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-relevanssi-utf-8-support/)
 *  [mpiftex](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mpiftex/)
 * (@mpiftex)
 * [17 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-relevanssi-utf-8-support/#post-1139182)
 * I’m having a different problem but might be related to encoding too.
    I have 
   a blog on which the posts are in greek (which means no latin characters). Every
   time I do a search for a greek word, there are no results. If I search for an
   english word contained into the posts, I’m getting results. I deactivated the
   plugin and results are found again on greek words.
 * Any ideas?
 *   Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
   
   In reply to: [Blog inside the website](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blog-inside-the-website/)
 *  Thread Starter [mpiftex](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mpiftex/)
 * (@mpiftex)
 * [17 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blog-inside-the-website/#post-1059242)
 * I appreciate the help stvwlf!
 * I create a [page template](http://codex.wordpress.org/Pages#Creating_Your_Own_Page_Templates)
   named blog and i assign it to the static page blog. I open the blog page and 
   it’s displayed with the blog template layout. Great.
 * However as soon as I set the page blog as the Posts Page, the page blog is not
   displayed according to the blog template but according to index.php template.
   I assume that the Posts Page is not a static page anymore.
 * As I wrote on the first post, I can edit index.php and make it appear just like
   blog template does but still, when I click on a post’s title (to open that post
   separately), it is displayed accordingly to the single.php template (which is
   different than blog template and index.php).
 * I hope I’m making myself clear.. I’m sorry for the not-so-clear and possibly 
   confusing use of the terms.
 *   Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
   
   In reply to: [Blog inside the website](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blog-inside-the-website/)
 *  Thread Starter [mpiftex](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mpiftex/)
 * (@mpiftex)
 * [17 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blog-inside-the-website/#post-1059225)
 * Thanks for the reply stvwlf.
    However I don’t think that this is the solution
   to my problem.
 * You see I want to change the way of the post appears depending on where the post
   was opened:
    if it was opened from the website (display by category), I want 
   it to appear with the site’s layout if it was opened from the blog(display as
   posts page), I want it to appear with the blog’s layout In both cases the post
   is in a category but I want it to appear differently in different parts of the
   site.
 * I don’t know if that is even possible, that is why I’m trying to think of another
   way but i’m out of ideas.

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