I think it might be very easy for you to get the top 25 based on view count and then get a random selection of 4 from that list. Below is an easy to test query but you would want to replace with just your post_views_count query and remove any rand orderby. // get top … Read more
The function getPostViews() is retrieving the total number of views for each post while setPostViews() increases the post views counter each time post is viewed. You need to call setPostViews() somewhere in your single.php and then use below code to retrieve posts on basis of posts view count. $args = Array( ‘post_type’ => ‘post’, ‘posts_per_page’ … Read more
I’ve tested your code on my installation and it is working just fine. So the code in not an issue. There are two possible reasons why this is not showing any posts. 1) You do not have any posts for that month 🙂 2) You haven’t any metadata ‘wpb_post_views_count‘ in database so it returns nothing. … Read more
The wpp_get_mostpopular() will give you the posts with the most views. What you want to achieve is to get the post view count by passing a post id (or using it within the loop on the single page). There is a function which accepts post id as parameter: <?php if ( function_exists(‘wpp_get_views’) ) { echo … Read more
Unless you’re storing that data, you can’t. It looks like posts_views_count is just a running total, so unless you’ve stored per month/week data, it simply does not exist. What’s more, you’re storing that data in a post meta value, which has a lot of performance and accuracy problems. It’s: incompatible with any form of page … Read more
there is plenty of plugins in the wordpress directory. here is one http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/popular-widget/screenshots/
Put this in your functions.php file function k99_post_hits( $id, $action ) { $dl_HitMetaField = ‘_dl_post_hits’; // hidden Custom field that stores the views $dl_PostHits = get_post_meta($id, $dl_HitMetaField, true); switch ($action) { case ‘count’ : if ( $dl_PostHits ==” ) { $dl_PostHits = mt_rand(10,20);//just for debug-test – remove for real count delete_post_meta( $id, $dl_HitMetaField); add_post_meta( $id, … Read more
You can do this using the orderby parameter of WP_Query. If you set it to comment_count, you can get the most popular. You will probably need to filter the WHERE parameter to set your date on the query (unless you want the last week or the last month or something simple like that) though.
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Don’t nullify the main query, this breaks stuff. Also, avoid using the $wp_query global as a custom variable. This breaks the main query and causes issues. You can also try adding ‘suppress_filters’ => true, to your arguments to suppress any custom filters if you are using any custom filters. Also, don’t use TEMPLATEPATH, it is … Read more