Popular posts from the last x days?

Hi,

The plugin displays the popular posts of the past 7 days irrespective of the date, so if your post from 3 years back is popular today, it will show up in the list.

That is how the plugin is set up by default. I assume that is what you want?

is there any other behaviour that you’re seeing?

The behaviour that I am expecting is this:

Show the popular posts from the last seven days counting from the last seven days (and not since the beginning of the creation date of the post).

This because an article created 3 years back will be considered more viewed (even if it isn’t) because the plugin adds to the overall count and not the real count from the last seven days…

One way to solve this, or another way to see this, is if it would be possible to set a “baseline” start date for the seven days, and reset each seven days.

Does this clear more my issue?

I’m not sure I fully understand.

If you set the Daily option as you did above, then the top posts will only be based on the tracking counts over the past 7 days not since the creation date of the post.

So, e.g.:
Post 1: 100 posts since beginning, 20 in last 7 days
Post 2: 80 posts since beginning, 40 in last 7 days

Post 2 ranks above post 1 when you choose the Daily option with 7 days as the range. The widget has it as Custom time period.

I tried that but it doesn’t seem to work that way, it shows the posts with more view counts ignoring the seven day range that I set.

Also the sorting is somehow random…

By the way, I’m overriding the widget output because of the poylang issue.

Can you tell me exactly what code you’re using to override. In the default state, the widget would work as I described above.

Here you go!:

P.S. also it is not following the correct sort order, the most viewed is not at the top

function popular_posts_output_filter( $widget_output, $widget_type, $widget_id ) {
    if ('widget_tptn_pop' == $widget_type) {
		if (function_exists('tptn_pop_posts')):

			//get the correct popular posts:
			$settings = array(
				'daily' => TRUE,
				'daily_range' => 7,
				'limit' => 10,
				'strict_limit' => FALSE,
			);

			$topposts = get_tptn_pop_posts( $settings ); // Array of posts

			$topposts = wp_list_pluck( $topposts, 'postnumber' );

			$args = array(
				'post__in' => $topposts,
				'order_by' => 'post__in',
				'posts_per_page' => 10,
				'ignore_sticky_posts' => 1
			);

			$newTop10Posts = '';

			$my_query = new WP_Query( $args );
			if ( $my_query->have_posts() ) {
				$newTop10Posts .= '<ul class="list-custom align-left inline-block strong">';
				while ( $my_query->have_posts() ) {
					$my_query->the_post();
					$newTop10Posts .= '<li><span class="tptn_after_thumb">'.'<a href="'. get_permalink( get_the_ID() ) .'" title="'. get_the_title($_post['ID']) .'" rel="bookmark">'. substr(get_the_title($_post['ID']), 0, 100) .'</a>' . '</span></li>';
					wp_reset_postdata();
				}
				$newTop10Posts .= '</ul>';
			} else {
			}
			wp_reset_query();

			//filter by the rendered list:
			//delete everything in the original list and replace with my own list
			$search = '/(<ul.*?class="list-custom align-left inline-block strong"[^>]*>)(.*?)(<\/ul>)/i';
			$replace = $newTop10Posts;
			$widget_output = preg_replace($search, $replace, $widget_output);
		endif;
    }
    return $widget_output;
}
add_filter( 'widget_output', 'popular_posts_output_filter', 10, 3 );

Hi,

I don’t see anything wrong with the code above.

What posts do you see when you try the default Top 10 widget with the Custom period set to 7 days? The code above is actually fetching this.

Hi!
I want to use shortcode , and to display posts from one week
with date but not with widget but with shortcode.
Please can you give me parametrs to use?
I can find only 2 [tptn_list limit=”5″ heading=”1″ daily=”0″]
Can you give me how to show date and remove vies from list?

I’ve responded in your new post.