Comments on: Wordpress Tip: The Easy Way to Show a Popular Post List

By: Aery

Aery — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:37:12 +0000

Hi,
Thanks for the exellent tip. I was looking for the same.

But since my permalinks are domain/category/post-title and I am planning to use ‘Popular’ as tag, Can you please tell how to use the wp-loop now?

I mean what modifications I need to do now for it?

Regards,
Aery

By: Chester Bullock

Chester Bullock — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 19:44:32 +0000

Perfect – thank you!

By: Chris Cagle

Chris Cagle — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 18:21:19 +0000

Chester – Take a look here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/query_posts#Offset_Parameter – it explains that all you need to do is add &showposts=10 to the query_posts function (line 3 above) to show only the first 10 posts.

By: Chester Bullock

Chester Bullock — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 16:59:29 +0000

Do you have an example of the code to limit the number of posts displayed?

By: Marita

Marita — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 00:04:45 +0000

I don’t know how to explain it any differently – but thanks anyway :)

By: Chris Cagle

Chris Cagle — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 23:43:50 +0000

I think you are a little confused here Marita…

Take a look through my tutorial and you can see that I don’t count pageviews or comments. This is a manual list that is displayed when you add a post to the “Popular” category.

By: Marita

Marita — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 23:09:00 +0000

I assume it’s a plugin that counts pageviews – how else could popular posts be determined (besides counting comments)?

By: Chris Cagle

Chris Cagle — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 22:46:59 +0000

@Marita – Are you using a plugin to generate your popular posts list? I ask because in my example, pageviews have nothing to do with it at all…

By: Marita

Marita — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 21:20:00 +0000

Thanks Chris for the tip; not quite sure if I understand you correctly: currently I have the limit set to 6, but it never changes because these six already have hundreds of pageviews and when I add a new article it starts at one. Did you mean actually changing the number from lets say 6 to 3 and then back, so it start counting again from 0?

Thanks for all your help!

By: Chris Cagle

Chris Cagle — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:42:44 +0000

@Marita – I can’t think of any way to “reset” the list, but what you can do is set a limit as to the number of posts you want to display (e.g. 3) and everytime you add a new one to the list, the bottom will drop off, etc. This will give you a rolling list that will change each time you add a new post as “popular”.