Popularity Contest 1.3b3

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1. Geof F. Morris adds this Comment:

   Excellent!

   A question for you: other than maybe a desire to get donations, why are you maintaining your own WordPress plugins page and not throwing your lot in with the official WordPress plugins directory?

   December 16th, 2007 at 5:07 pm

2. john adds this Comment:

   This is so weird, with the upgrade it’s putting the value in the post again, but I’ll be darned if I can find the call in the loop to remove it.

   December 16th, 2007 at 6:24 pm

3. john adds this Comment:

   I’m an idiot - I forgot it’s a config setting in the plugin code itself.

   December 16th, 2007 at 6:28 pm

4. stephen adds this Comment:

   Alex,

   What bug is it that this update resolves?

   I ask because i once used your plugin, and it worked fine, with one exception. For whatever reason, it would list one multiple times, anywhere from 2 to 4 times.

   …is it that one?

   December 16th, 2007 at 8:24 pm

5. Alex Loth adds this Comment:

   One more THANK YOU for that delicious plugin!

   December 16th, 2007 at 9:53 pm

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   December 16th, 2007 at 11:08 pm

7. Dhruva Sagar adds this Comment:

   Thanks a ton for the wonderful plugin, i’ve updated it!

   December 18th, 2007 at 2:39 am

8. bernabauer adds this Comment:

   Hi there Alex! Is there a plan to make your plugin compatible with wp-supercache? Or perhaps a hack to use javascript instead of php?

   thumbs up for your plugin! Thanx for the great job so far!

   December 18th, 2007 at 2:40 am

9. Jeff adds this Comment:

   Great plugin! I thought you might be interested in a super easy modification I made to the plugin after I wanted to be able to show the “top posts and pages: today” section from my wordpress.com stats but couldn’t find a good solution.

   I just duplicated and modified the show_top_ranked_in_month() function to show the top ranked in the last n days, like so:

   
function show_top_ranked_in_last_n($limit, $before, $after, $n = 7) {
if(!is_numeric($n)) $n = 7;
$n = intval($n);
global $wpdb;
$temp = $wpdb;

   $join = apply_filters('posts_join', '');
   $where = apply_filters('posts_where', '');
   $groupby = apply_filters('posts_groupby', '');
   if (!empty($groupby)) {
   $groupby = ' GROUP BY '.$groupby;
   }
   else {
   $groupby = ' GROUP BY '.$wpdb->posts.'.ID ';
   }

   $posts = $wpdb->get_results("
SELECT ID, post_title
FROM $wpdb->posts
LEFT JOIN $wpdb->ak_popularity pop
ON $wpdb->posts.ID = pop.post_id
$join
WHERE post_date > SUBDATE(NOW(), $n)
AND post_date ID).'">'
.$post->post_title.'‘.$after
);
}
}
else {
print($before.’(none)’.$after);
}
$wpdb = $temp;
}


   and added the appropriate public function as well. It turns out to be pretty useful because I can show top ranked today, top ranked in the last week. This function could also be modified to show the top ranked posts in a range, by replacing NOW() in the query with a variable

   December 18th, 2007 at 12:50 pm

10. RodMan adds this Comment:

    I wanted to add this plug in to my page but my site has been live for about a year now and I have hundreds of posts. Is there a way I can go back and manually enter the popularity value for each post that was published prior to installing the plugin?

    Thanks

    December 18th, 2007 at 6:10 pm

11. json adds this Comment:

    IMHO, if you’re going to place a link to your site on every post in a person’s blog, it would be cool if you had the common decency to use target=_blank.

    Disabled the plugin.

    thanks,
    json

    December 19th, 2007 at 9:43 am

12. Alex adds this Comment:

    target=_blank is bad, it removes choice from your visitors.

    I would recommend reading the README, particularly the part of the FAQ titled:

    How do I turn off the ‘[?]’ on my posts?

    December 19th, 2007 at 9:48 am

13. Terri Ann adds this Comment:

    @Alex

    I don’t agree with json exactly, especially the way they phrased their thought, but it would be nice if the link was rel=external for people who add target=_blank to their rel=external links via JavaScript.

    Otherwise, fabulous plugin; it’s very useful. Two updates I’d like to see are:
    1. Being able to place the popularity % somewhere rather than defaulting to the bottom of a post. So I can move it somewhere with the rest of my meta data content
    2. If it isn’t there already (which I don’t believe it is) I’d love to see it not count hits when a WP logged in user loads the page/archive/listing. Or maybe an option to turn that feature on/off.

    Hope they were already on your radar of features we might see soon

    December 19th, 2007 at 2:29 pm

14. Alex :: Web Design adds this Comment:

    @jeff - i think some tags got stripped out when you posted that code, as well as some smart quotes put in. Could you say what is missing, as I really want to use that mod! Thanks

    December 27th, 2007 at 12:27 pm

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16. rüya adds this Comment:

    Thanks for plgn, following for updates

    January 18th, 2008 at 2:15 pm

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    January 21st, 2008 at 12:00 pm

18. Mig adds this Comment:

    Is there a way to emphasize the date of the post to influence its popularity? Or to simply discard older posts? We have some evergreen posts that got a lot of traffic long ago and so the “most popular” list is practically etched in stone, making it nearly useless for a news site like ours. We want “what are people reading and linking most now” not a hall of fame. Adding a weight for date would be handy, so it could slowly de-emphasize older posts.

    February 4th, 2008 at 10:15 am

19. joanne adds this Comment:

    I’m also having the same trouble as @Mig above. Our most popular posts look like a hall of fame instead of a dynamic list. I tried adjusting the values under the popularity settings but I don’t really know which ones to adjust. Any suggestions?

    February 7th, 2008 at 5:49 pm

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    February 20th, 2008 at 4:47 am

21. David adds this Comment:

    Same problem as above. Our most popular are pretty stagnant. I’d love a simple solution, if possible, for have an option of most popular this week, or this month, etc. I see the mod listed above, but don’t know if I can handle that kind of coding.

    February 24th, 2008 at 6:51 pm

22. tomoya adds this Comment:

    Hi Alex,
    Thank you for that very cool plugin!

    I made sidebar widget plugin because the plugin that you made was very wonderful.

    http://wordpress.org[...]ists-widget/

    March 14th, 2008 at 5:13 am

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