These $args is what you need and you may also use that in query_posts(); $args = array( ‘post_type’ => array( ‘post’ ), ‘post_status’ => ‘publish’, ‘posts_per_page’ => 9, ‘cat’ => $link1, // try better variable name ‘meta_key’ => ‘post_views_count’, ‘orderby’ => ‘meta_value_num’, ‘order’ => ‘DESC’, ‘date_query’ => array( array( ‘after’ => ‘1 months ago’, ), … Read more
Is your goal to create a new post with the recent content or to list the existing posts that have the recent content? In general, the latter is more suited to what WP normally does. Creating New Posts This can be done but you’re asking for some complexity. Assuming that you could just stick together … Read more
If I call the popular posts below “the content” it works without any problem. If I call it before it (like in the code above), the actual content of my page won’t show up and instead the last blog post in the list of popular posts will be displayed. If I understand you, that is … Read more
The correct syntax to get posts from the last week is 1 week ago. Just another note, showposts is replaced in favor of posts_per_page. Apart from that, your query should work.
Here’s your code wrapped up in a plugin. The important thing is that it prepare()s the input, so the query is safe. You can define 2 arguments: Offset & Limit. Those are basically just the SQL LIMIT. If you don’t have any use for the plugin, just deactivate it, as it won’t do anything – … Read more
It is not recommended to change a downloaded plugin, this will cause problems when you want or need to update that plugin. You could consider extending the plugins’ class when it has one, in another plugin, for this you will need some PHP knowledge. This way you will have two different plugins, yours, and the … Read more
Firstly read up on, Page Templates to learn how to create the pages you want. Secondly getting recent posts is no problem, you just have to do a query with WP_Query using the order and orderby parameters accordingly. Thirdly wordpress doesn’t count page views, you have to implement this yourself. Same applies to social counts … Read more
Personaly i already used the wp-postviews plugin and it works fine. Comes with a widget to display the list in a sidebar.
simple list all last post about the network, not the popular posts; for popular posts you must use an plugin or track via Google Analytics etc. <ul class=”postlist no-mp”> <?php $blogs = $wpdb->get_results( “SELECT blog_id,path FROM {$wpdb->blogs} WHERE blog_id != {$wpdb->blogid} AND site_id = ‘{$wpdb->siteid}’ AND spam = ‘0’ AND deleted = ‘0’ AND archived … Read more
As per @userabuser comment: <?php /* Plugin Name: Simple Post Views Plugin URI: http://en.bainternet.info Description: Simple And lightweight plugin to track post views. Version: 0.1 Author: Bainternet Author URI: http://en.bainternet.info */ if ( !class_exists(‘PostViews’)){ class PostViews{ static $meta_key = “_post_views_count” //class constractor public function __construct(){ //auto count view on the_content function. add_filter(‘the_content’,array($this,’setPostViews’)); //add shortcodes add_shortcode(“TOP_VIEWED”,array($this,’top_viewed’)); … Read more