Most viewed post for the last 2 days using WP_Query

I had the same issue. I had searched many times for this issue. but I could not find a solution for this.

get the most viewed post for the last 2 days not to get the posts for the last 2 days

I have a table named “wp_popularpostssummary”.

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Result ll be

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so from this table get result postids by using following custom query

$results = $wpdb->get_results($wpdb->prepare('SELECT postid,COUNT(*) AS qy FROM `wp_popularpostssummary` WHERE `view_date` BETWEEN DATE_SUB(CURRENT_DATE(), INTERVAL 1 WEEK) AND CURRENT_DATE() GROUP BY postid ORDER BY qy DESC'));

query result ll be the post id’s of most viewed posts for the last one week.
then using following foreach loop to get post id

            $pids = [];

                $results = json_decode(json_encode($results), true);

                foreach ($results as $result) {
                   foreach ($result as $k => $v) {
                       if($k == 'postid'){
                           array_push($pids, $v);
                       }
                   };

                }

finally, use post id to fetch post details. code ll be following

                $args = array(
                    'post_type'         => 'post',
                    'post_status'       => 'publish',
                    'posts_per_page'    => '10',
                    'orderby'           => 'post__in',
                    'post__in'          => $pids

                );


                $query = new WP_Query( $args );   if ( $query->have_posts() ) {
                    // The Loop
                    while ( $query->have_posts() ) { //code here
                     }
                 }

Change date duration according to you needs.
I hope this ll help to anyone in the feature!
Let me know if have a query.

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