Popularity Contest Plugin (beta 3)

Hi Alex,

Thanks for the update.

Still get the admin 404.

I still have major proplems because it hasn’t registered any clicks for a few days now.

It may be conflicting with Event Calender – https://blog.firetree.net/2005/05/27/eventcalandar23 thats the only plugin I have added recently.

Any ideas why this would be?

It appears the sections, Post, Cat, Arch, Home, Feed, Ping, Track do not update although comments do.

Any suggestions?

Thanks

Alex – is there a way to put a tag in the loop that displays the views of the post, rather than the popularity %?

elyonline – I’m sorry, I have no idea what is going on for you. Since other people don’t seem to have having the same problems and I don’t see them, I’m guessing it has something to do with your specific site configuration.

Arlo – sure, feel free to use whatever data you like, just add a hookable function into the code.

I think I can work out adding the hook, but what function would I call that pulls a post’s view count? Or do I have to add one?

If there isn’t a function for the specific data you want, you’ll need to add one.

Alex.

Ok thanks anyway, but I can confirm that if I de-activate the plug-ins ‘WP-Stats’ and ‘Event Calender’ you plug-in works.

Why would that be?

Thanks

Just wanna say thanks for your plugin Alex, and leave a suggestion: include an easy way to replace “Popularity: 80%” with a picture/graphic or .gif for a nicer layout (maybe using the str_replace)

Cheers

Anyone having issues with the update of values looking in the wrong place has this plugin in the directory that the zip creates; the way Alex wrote the plugin, it expects it to be in wp-content/plugins/, not a subdirectory underneath that.

Now, mind you, I prefer my plugins to be in their own directories, and I’d like that to be the standard way to do things, but …

Alex,

Just a quick question, is it possibile to list the most popular categories in addition to the most popular posts? I could see this being quite handy for those folks that have a truckload of categories and want to direct their users to the cats that get the most traffic.

It’s certainly possible (it is shown on the report page) – but I don’t have a “template tag” for that. I bet it would be easy to add.

Hi Alex, 2 questions:
first I want to say: it’s great plugin.
And my questions:
1)why there is nothing in admin/options/popularity?
Is it ok?i can see my stats in admin/dashboard/most popular posts.
2) i’ve implemented flash for showing popularity of top 10 posts, i add new function into your plugin(hope, that this is not problem, but I dont know how to find total percentage of popularity, i just know single views for post, as it on my blog: https://blog.franto.com
Can you tell me how i can find it out?

I have already fond out solution for percentage (but it differs 1% ?? ) but i have copy it from other function where is computed through ceil function, so i do not know, why it differs.

“I bet it would be easy to add.”… lol… It’s all relative… I’ll take a peek and see what I can come up with…

My “Category Views” and “Archive Views” aren’t being incremented… Here’s a link for one of my categories. Do you think the problem may reside in the template I’m using?…

Perhaps, try using the default template and see what happens.