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I released a new version of my Popularity Contest plugin for WordPress to fix some bugs in the 1.2 release. Many thanks to those that opened threads for these bugs in the WordPress Support forums and pointed me to them.
The updated download is available on my WordPress Plugins page.
If you have any trouble with this, please open a thread in the WP Support Forums and send me the link.
Great plugin. Thanks.
Would be a nice improvement if page accesses from the dashboard could be filtered.
Thanks for your plugin
Thank you for nice plugin!
This plugin is very useful tool.
Thanks…
I really like this plugin.
Only one problem is that although by blog is less than a year old it still says I’ve got popular posts from a year ago.
I can live with that though!!
Alex, your pop-contest plugin is great, and I use it quite extensively. Here’s a small suggestion for increasing it’s accuracy – divide each post’s popularity score by the number of days since it was posted. I tend to find that older articles on my site stick at the top of the ratings, which is a little misleading as they’ve had more time to build up popularity. Weighting scores towards more recent articles could offset this.
Thanks for your hard work,
Andrew.
Hmm, interesting idea – but this would bias the scores towards recent posts, particularly hurting posts prior to the enabling of the PC plugin.
The more I think about it, the more I think this would hurt accuracy rather than help it. An older post with lots of view is more popular than a newer post with fewer views.
OK. I don’t think it’s essential. It could be customisable – a weighting factor between the current method and the one I describe. Essentially I’m just wondering about the post 10 days old that’s got loads of views, but not quite as many as the one a year old – arguably the first is more ‘popular’.
I could see that this might make the plugin more complicated than would be desirable though.
It would also make the weighting algorithm a lot heavier (more resource intensive). There’s probably a good solution out there somewhere though. For now, you might want to look at the “last 30 days”, etc. reports.
Hi
This is a great plugin.
Is it possible to display posts regarding to their popularity instead of by date on front page (not sidebar) ?
Thanks for this great work
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