A truly multilingual popular post plugin

  • Hey everyone,

    We built a EN/FR site that has lots of content and we’re looking for a “real” multilingual popular post plugin. We tried the one that came with the theme and we also tried WordPress Popular Posts but to no avail. FYI, the multilingual aspect is managed with WPML.

    The problem we have is that the “views” are always counted globally. Here’s an illustration of the situation

    • article A has 100 views in FR and 10 in EN (total 110)
    • article B has 5 views in FR and 75 in EN (total 80)
    • article C has 80 views in FR and 50 in EN (total 130)

    Therorically, in the french site, the list should show A – C – B and the english version should be B – C – A

    In real life, and with all the plugins we tested, the results are always C – A – B and the posts are shown in all language. In other words, if a FR only article (so on EN translation) has more views, it’ll show up in the english version of the plugin and vice versa.

    Before we start down the road of creating a custom plugin, I want to make sure I didn’t miss anything either here on the repository or in any other marketplace out there.

    Thank you

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  • Have you looked in WPML’s site Plugins Compatibility section? I would start there.

    Then have a look at the source code of the plugins you already know and see if they expose their queries through filters. Then your custom plugin would only need to be a couple of filters.

    Another option: use multisite instead of WPML.

    Other than that, I’m pretty sure what you’re looking for is custom plugin territory.

    Additional thought: you could ask your question at WPML. You get paid support from them. ??

    As you only need to do a +1 when a post is viewed which is basically a post_meta (unless you want to track each view with their IP and make it more accurate), I would definitely stop searching and create a plugin for that.

    You’ll need a couple of lines of code to do that instead of spending hours searching, installing and testing plugins.

    Thread Starter Guillaume Hamel

    (@guimos)

    Thanks everyone for the answers… I had taken a look at WPML forums, but will look more carefully at the site’s other sections.

    ANd I’ll mostly likely go the “custom” way.

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