Comments on: Popularity Contest 1.2.1

By: Usando el plugin Popularity-Contest para WordPress

Usando el plugin Popularity-Contest para WordPress — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 13:05:21 +0000

[...] los posts mÃ¡s populares de este blog. Ello es posible gracias al plugin desarrollado por Alex King Popularity-Contest.Mediante el uso de varios quicktags proporcionados por Alex se pueden colocar en el sidebar [...]

By: Heberts dot Net » Blog Archive » Putting My Best Foot Forward

Heberts dot Net » Blog Archive » Putting My Best Foot Forward — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 18:39:27 +0000

[...] order to get the ball rolling, I’ve installed Alex King’s Popularity Contest to start automatically tracking the “popularity” of individual posts on all my sites. [...]

By: Daniel Braun

Daniel Braun — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 12:16:33 +0000

Great plugin! Is it possible to show the most popular post in the last x days in instead of just in the current month?

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Wordpress 2.3 Incompatibilities | jon lee dot see eh — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 03:58:39 +0000

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By: Wordpress Plugin Hunting | Stephan Miller

Wordpress Plugin Hunting | Stephan Miller — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 12:13:06 +0000

[...] And after browsing through the WordPress Plugins Database, I found something that will do what I want it to do for the time being. It’s the Articles plugin from Alex King who also wrote Popularity Contest. [...]

By: ~scott » Blog Archive » Putting My Best Foot Forward

~scott » Blog Archive » Putting My Best Foot Forward — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 02:18:04 +0000

[...] order to get the ball rolling, I’ve installed Alex King’s Popularity Contest to start automatically tracking the “popularity” of individual posts on all my sites. [...]

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Sun, 12 Aug 2007 03:44:17 +0000

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By: What WordPress PlugIns do I Use? | Ian Fernando

What WordPress PlugIns do I Use? | Ian Fernando — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 19:22:47 +0000

[...] Popularity Contest 1.2.1 This will enable ranking of your posts by popularity; using the behavior of your visitors to determine each postâ€™s popularity. [...]

By: cfg

cfg — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 06:10:28 +0000

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

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 18:26:05 +0000

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.

By: Andrew Ferrier

Andrew Ferrier — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 18:21:45 +0000

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.

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 19:01:16 +0000

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.

By: Andrew Ferrier

Andrew Ferrier — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 17:02:33 +0000

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.

By: Wizbit

Wizbit — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 18:22:47 +0000

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!!

By: mofu

mofu — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 08:08:55 +0000

Thank you for nice plugin!
This plugin is very useful tool.
Thanks…