Annoying

Hi @deeveearr!

No, it doesn’t have “days to live” ?? It won’t go away like tomorrow so there’s still time. Just wanted to give some heads up that you guys need to replace that widget with the either the WordPress Popular Posts block or the shortcode.

Oh, and thanks for reminding me about the tutorial. I guess I need to update that too now haha.

Hi @hcabrera

I’m not sure which method I’m using, but it’s definitely NOT the popular posts block, as I hate Gutenberg with a passion!

It might be the shortcode that I’m using for my homepage posts grid, but in my posts, it’s bound to be the widget.

*edit* I’ve just had a check of my homepage, and it’s using a ‘do-widget’ function, probably from another plugin.

In that case you’re definitely using the classic widget, otherwise you wouldn’t have seen that deprecation notice. That other plugin you’re using is just “converting” the classic widget into a shortcode.

If using the WordPress Popular Posts block isn’t an option for you then there’s always the [wpp] shortcode.

I figured it out. It was quite easy to change actually. Everything is working flawlessly!

Hj @hcabrera

I;ve just tried using the:

[wpp range=’last7days’ limit=5 stats_views=1 order_by=’views’]

…on a test page within my website, and there are no images, just a run of five post titles with a number of views.

Yep, that’s the default HTML output for the shortcode. No thumbnails, just a simple list of popular posts.

Please re-check my (now updated) How to display a grid of popular posts in WordPress tutorial, specifically the If you’re using the shortcode section to learn how to rebuild your grid with the [wpp] shortcode (and feel free to ask questions if you have any, I’ll be here for a while before going to bed).

However @hcabrera adding this:

[wpp range=’last7days’ post_type=’post’ limit=6 thumbnail_width=225 thumbnail_height=135 wpp_start=’

‘ post_html=’
• {thumb}{title}
‘]

Shows my post grid as it is on the front page.

And the mess above is exactly why I hate Gutenberg with a passion.

*edit* I’m also guessing that the ‘last7days’ should be changed to ‘last1day’?

• This reply was modified 1 year, 5 months ago by deeveearr.

What do you mean exactly with “Shows my post grid as it is on the front page”? (I don’t know your website, remember? :P)

I’m also guessing that the ‘last7days’ should be changed to ‘last1day’?

Do last24hours instead.

My test page shows the grid exactly how it shows on the homepage.

I’m guessing that’s because I’ve already added the CSS for a post grid from your tutorial – about a year ago?

Yeah, regarding the url, its NSFW so:

midlandsmaidens(dot)com should get you there, and the post grid is towards the bottom in the ‘trending posts’ bit.

• This reply was modified 1 year, 5 months ago by deeveearr.
• This reply was modified 1 year, 5 months ago by deeveearr.

Yep, if you added these CSS rules to your site’s stylesheet for example then yeah you don’t need to add them again. Those styles are global and will apply to all popular posts grids you have on your site.

Problem is though, that I’ve got popular posts widgets on all of my blog posts, that I don’t really want changing into post grids.

How would I go about changing the blog post widgets?

Is there a shortcode that I can add that will show the popular posts in my blog posts?

• This reply was modified 1 year, 5 months ago by deeveearr.

You’d need to replace that with a [wpp] shortcode, only you’d be using a different HTML structure so it’s not a grid like the one from your homepage.

For example, using the exact same shortcode you posted above minus the HTML-related parameters (wpp_start and post_html) will get you a normal popular posts list with thumbnails.

Ok so I placed this:

[wpp range=’last24hours’ post_type=’post’ limit=6 thumbnail_width=70 thumbnail_height=70′]

…into my test page, but it doesnt seem to be working.

Did I miss something out?