I also updated my Popularity Contest plugin for WordPress while building alexking.org v2. Significant changes include: Support for recording page activity (page specific reports will be added after WP 2.1 is released) Added a [?] link (optional) to explain the ‘Popularity: 27%’ that is displayed Added a hook for other plugins to conditionally change when…
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Popularity Contest is a WordPress plugin that keeps track of activity on your blog and calculates a popularity percentage for each post and page. The popularity display you see: Popularity: 27% [?] is the rank of that post or page compared to the other posts and pages on the site. Since page view counts, etc.…
One of my customers reported experiencing slowness with the pre-release of Tasks 2.7. I believe the reason for the performance hit is the additional JavaScript files that are included with the Yahoo! Auto-Complete feature, and I’ve coded up a quick hack to fix this. It all works fine for me, but I am quite wary…
Based on Mark’s recommendation, I’m trying out a new ad service: Text Link Ads1. I signed up yesterday, but don’t see any ads yet – perhaps they haven’t sold my site yet. Anyway, I put the code in the sidebar under the Yahoo! ads on the home page only – we’ll see how they do…
A month and a half ago, I put up a group of untested WordPress themes hoping that people would help review them (so they could be added to the theme browser and main theme list). So far, only one person (thanks Trevor!) has reviewed any of the themes1. While I know it takes a bit…
I’ve posted a list of untested WordPress themes that have been submitted to me for addition to my list, but that I don’t have time to code review before posting. As I previously posted, there are a few things I’d like to have looked for in each theme. Once one person approves the theme, it…
I’ve released version 1.1 of my Popularity Contest plugin1 for WordPress. There is only one real change in this version, but it’s a handy one. You can now recount your comments and trackbacks at the push of a button (or load of a URL). This is handy for resetting popularity values if you’ve gotten comment…
Well what do you know, my Popularity Contest plugin did win something. This post is part of the thread: Content Presentation – an ongoing story on this site. View the thread timeline for more context on this post. This post is part of the project: Popularity Contest. View the project timeline for more context on…
I’ve released version 1.0 of my Popularity Contest plugin and sent it in to the Plugin Competition. Hope I win1. Seriously, I know how much work goes into hosting a competition, hats off to Mark! Mark, you got that PayPal payment, right? ;)[back] This post is part of the thread: Content Presentation – an ongoing…
I’ve posted beta 4 of my Popularity Contest plugin. This release has one main change: better compatibility with foreach loops and PHP installations that have register_globals enabled. In the plugin code, I access cached WordPress data whenever I can so I don’t have to make additional database queries. However, depending on the syntax used for…
I’ve posted beta 3 of my Popularity Contest plugin. This release has 2 main changes: Don’t do anything on admin pages – this should make post previews work again. The post path to update values should work when WordPress is installed in a sub-folder. I’ve opened a new support thread for this release as the…
I’ve updated my Popularity Contest plugin with the following changes: Don’t show reports for categories that have no posts. Don’t show popularity in feeds. Please continue posting bug reports and support questions in the forum thread. This post is part of the thread: Content Presentation – an ongoing story on this site. View the thread…
Popularity Contest is a WordPress plugin that uses page views and feedback (comments, trackbacks, etc.) to determine how popular each of your posts are (in relation to each other). The values given to each type of view and feedback are configurable1 and popularity for all posts is recalculated whenever they are changed. Obviously, since views…
I’ve started working on task templates and, as expected, it’s gotten complex rather quickly. I’m confident that I’ve got a good back-end design in place, I just need to finish the implementation. The front end interface is still somewhat up in the air. I think I know how I’m going to present most of the…
The vast majority of people that have purchased Tasks Pro™ and are taking part in the Tasks 2.0 beta are up and running and have had absolutely no problem with the installation. On the flip side, there have been a few people that haven’t been able to use some piece functionality they really want without…