If you are developer and integrate the in to theme, you will get lot more flexibility out of the plugin including the ability to show the popular custom post types etc..
If you are developer and want to integrate the in to your existing theme, then read the information below..
Firstly, the function which you will need to include in your theme to fetch the popular posts is called wp most popular get popular ..
The following filters are available to you wp most popular list before used to filter the. element of the widget list * **wp most popular list after** used to filter the element of the widget list * wp most popular list item single filters for the list item generated by the widget.
Why are no posts displaying when I use the widget or call the in my theme. 99% of the time this is because no posts have been visited yet to receive ranking.
Simply click on blog post to read it on your blog and it will receive ranking and display in the list of most popular posts...
The version of the plugin that I wrote used PHP to track the post views and the reason why I switched to Javascript was because if caching plugin is enabled on your blog, the page will be loaded to your visitor and the PHP code to log view on post will not be run...
I was able to create category for popular posts and then call the function when that category was viewed..
However, only giving it 4 stars as I've realised that when the plugin is deactivated, all the info is deleted, the whole table for this plugin is gone..
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