robhills1985

Hi, thanks for the response. Good detail to know — however, this doesn’t solve the problem. When I tried to upload a single post (from the past month), it failed. FYI, I am in contact with support via email at this point.

Update: before I had a chance to reinstall the plugin, the issue has resolved itself. Thank you!

Thank you @swissspidy. Yes, WP Rocket cache was cleared.

Re: installing the plugin, working on, will report back.

Thank you @luckynasan. Issue still occurs after disabling all plugins except Web Stories. Site Health info shared via the Google Form. Thank you.

Hi @luckynasan, thank you for the updates on this issue. I was having the same issue, found this thread and just updated to version 1.30.0, cleared all levels of cache and the issue persists. Please advise. Thank you!

Hi Luckyna,

Having had this issue for weeks, the issue seems to have disappeared when I went to record it. Ha! I’ll take it. Thank you for your assistance.
All the best!

Hi Luckyna San!
I do — however, when I click on it, the template just inserts into the story as a new page.

firstly, I want to thank @hcabrera for the plugin and awesome support and also @casperknight for initiating and posting the code.

@zydarek @akademiatortu I can confirm this worked for me. I’ll add a step-by-step as my little way of helping in this thread:

1) install code snippets plugin (unless you are comfortable adding code to your theme)
2) copy and paste this code into a new snippet and then save changes and activate:

function custom_wpp_update_postviews($postid) {
    // Accuracy:
    //   10  = 1 in 10 visits will update view count. (Recommended for high traffic sites.)
    //   30  = 30% of visits. (Medium traffic websites.)
    //   100 = Every visit. Creates many db write operations every request.

    $accuracy = 50;

    if ( function_exists('wpp_get_views') && (mt_rand(0,100) < $accuracy) ) {
        // Remove or comment out lines that you won't be using!!
        update_post_meta(
            $postid,
            'views_total',
            wpp_get_views($postid, 'all', false)
        );
        update_post_meta(
            $postid,
            'views_daily',
            wpp_get_views($postid, 'daily', false)
        );
        update_post_meta(
            $postid,
            'views_weekly',
            wpp_get_views($postid, 'weekly', false)
        );
        update_post_meta(
            $postid,
            'views_monthly',
            wpp_get_views($postid, 'monthly', false)
        );
    }
}
add_action('wpp_post_update_views', 'custom_wpp_update_postviews');

add_action('elementor/query/popular_posts', function($query) {
	$query->set('orderby', 'meta_value_num');
	$query->set('meta_key', 'views_daily');
});

3. add “popular_posts” into the Elementor Posts widget

4. make sure you have date set to “all” and order as “DESC”

5. depending on how much traffic your site gets, you may need to tweak the “sample rate” in the Popular Posts plugin (in “tools” section of plugin settings). If you have low traffic and want to test it is working, set the sample rate to 1 and then open up a few posts in an incognito window. clear any plugin caches you use and check the page where the elementor posts display. hopefully it works for you like it did for me!

Resolved!

W3TC, Autoptimize, WPP all had lazy loading off… but Smush was on! Deactivated that and it worked instantly – I still wanted some lazy loading, so turned W3TC lazyloading on and it’s still working!

Thank you so much for all your help!

Hector, you’re a real one pal! Sincerely appreciate your help. That fixed the stylings (weird that it broke it considering that was in place when it was working previously) – however, the thumbnails are still not showing on the frontend (but showing when I edit), even after clearing caches.

Again, will keep messing around (which is probably what got me in the trouble in the first place, as I am on a steep noob learning curve right now!).

Really appreciate you taking the time to look and provide a suggestion – and absolutely understand the time limitations of providing free help haha!

Unfortunately, the suggestion didn’t work – I will keep playing around with it and will check back in if I find a solution or more info.

FYI it seems like I am using the latest WPP version – 5.2.2? However, I did update to the latest version of WordPress when it was released last night – sadly I can’t remember if
this issue came up before or after this update (which I would guess could be helpful!).

Thanks again.

Thanks for the quick reply @hcabrera!

It’s in the sidebar on all our posts pages under the “most loved” heading such as this page.

Even stranger is I am building a template in Elementor which shows the sidebar and when I am editing it shows perfectly – including thumbnails! – there too.

Thanks again!

• This reply was modified 4 years, 7 months ago by robhills1985.

Hi @sterndata,

Thank you! After a bit of trial and error, this seems to work (although I am not sure if it is the cleanest way of doing it as I have little understanding of what I am doing, just in magpie mode, stealing bits of code from here and there and stitching together!)

@media only screen and (max-width: 60em) and (min-width: 40em)  {
.ast-right-sidebar  #secondary  {
    clear: none;
    float: right;
    width: 35%;
    margin: 1em 0px 0px;
}
}

@media only screen and (max-width: 60em) and (min-width: 40em)  {
.single-post #primary  {  
    float: left;
    padding-right: 0px;
    width: 60%;
}
}