Just as @Rarst suggested, you must have your $args defined within your function. You could solve it by using global variables, but we don’t want too many such variables flying around! Check out the PHP docs on the scope of a variable or write your code in a class. You can also simplify your query. … Read more
In my personal opinion, this can get a bit resource intensive, so you will need to implement some type of cache system, or even look at transient What you want to do is to extent your current post view function or even create one on the side for this. You would want to capture each … Read more
Use strtotime to compare dates. $start = strtotime(‘yesterday’); $end = strtotime( ‘+1 week’,$start); $args = array( ‘posts_per_page’ => 5, ‘ignore_sticky_posts’ => 1, ‘meta_key’ => ‘sw_post_views_count’, ‘orderby’ => ‘meta_value_num’, ‘order’ => ‘DESC’, ‘date_query’ => array( ‘after’ => $end, ‘before’ => $start, ), ); $popularpost = new WP_Query( $args ); if ( $popularpost->have_posts() ) { while ( … Read more
Currently, I see no way that you can do that as you have no good reference to pull date based statistics. Notice: You are storing post views as follows: add_post_meta($postID, $count_key, ‘0’); To be able to grab “Most viewed in period”, you would have to do something more complex, probably with an extra database table. … Read more
There is a Jetpack widget called Top Posts and Pages (Jetpack) If you check out the [source code][2] for this widget, you can see that it’s using the function stats_get_csv() to retrieve the stats: $post_view_posts = stats_get_csv( ‘postviews’, array( ‘days’ => 2, ‘limit’ => 10 ) ); If you want to generate your custom most … Read more
Okay, so here is the complete query for displaying popular posts of current week. I am using meta_query to limit query results within current week only. It will get all posts from current week and then sort them by post views count added by custom field wpb_post_views_count that you used in your question. // Current … Read more
I will give you a small answer to your update, doing this with the WP API. The API have the possibilities to use the WP_Query like also in core, but about the get parameters in the url. A URL to pull content from Post Status would look like this: http://example.com/wp-json/posts To pull content with WP_Query … Read more