Comments on: Popular posts for WordPress 2.6

By: Ram

Ram — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 07:22:08 +0000

hi kilian,
great code which much helps more..
and i have doubt instead of print the whole content of the popular post how to reduce the content of the popular post?
thnx,
Ram

By: Kilian Valkhof

Kilian Valkhof — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 11:06:29 +0000

It does? I must’ve missed that because my popular posts were from before wordpress had more revisions of one post. The solution is simple, luckily, just add

WHERE post_status = "published"

between the FROM and the ORDER line.

By: QA

QA — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 08:53:59 +0000

Well, It also lists auto saved versions of posts as well.. Any idea how to get only a list of ‘published’ most popular posts?

By: Kilian Valkhof

Kilian Valkhof — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 09:11:38 +0000

Thanks for the additions, Korneel and aNieto2k!

By: aNieto2k

aNieto2k — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 05:00:50 +0000

If table prefix isn’t wp_ you have a problem.

You need change the SQL sentence to this.
global $wpdb;
$sql = ‘SELECT post_title, comment_count, guid, post_date, post_content, ID
FROM ‘.$wbdb->posts.’
ORDER BY comment_count DESC
LIMIT 3;’;

Good snippet.

By: Korneel

Korneel — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 08:30:59 +0000

Hey Kilian,

Nice snippet. You could improve the load time by not echo-ing each line.
Instead, push the HTML in an array and echo a NULL-join of it after the loop. (use ” and \n for neat HTML).
To prevent empty NULL joins by set up the Array before the foreach().

Cheers,