I am using the Jetpack plugin to get ‘site stats’ which shows the number of views for blog posts/pages. So I’m no expert or anything but I’m guessing there is a table that stores these views. Is there a way to manipulate this data to create a simple list of the most popular posts by views in the sidebar?
Currently, I’m using a plugin for this but I’d prefer to hard code it straight into the theme.
Any guidance would be massively appreciated.
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Personaly i already used the wp-postviews plugin and it works fine. Comes with a widget to display the list in a sidebar.
Although
wp-postviews(suggested bykevin) is a good plugin, I would definitely recommend the use of post-views since it offers some usable functions so you can hardcore it right into your theme.The WordPress.com Popular Posts plugin appears to be working well with Jetpack for me. I’ve customized a theme-specific “popular posts” widget (in Delicate News from ElegantThemes.com) that was using comments to indicate popular posts using the WPPP_show_popular_posts function that comes with the plugin. You can check out the code at this link http://pastebin.com/s2PFrWEN .