Top Posts WordPress Plugin
So easy it's magic!
Have you ever wanted to simply share your Top Posts over a certain period of time?
I know I have!
Well this very simple WordPress Plugin does just that! No setup or difficult installation required.
This is a must-have for highly engaging community-oriented blogs!
Made for widgetized sidebars you’ll be able to drag and drop this plugin and quickly share with your community the Top Posts (based on comments) over a selected time period.
For example, you’ll be able to choose Weekly, Monthly, or over the entire existence of your blog!
You can include Pages as well if you actively use them for community centers of conversation.
Here’s what it looks like:
Simple and elegant.
This is a great way to showcase what’s happening around your blog and where people are gathering for conversation.
It is also reasonable to expect an increase of clicks and pageviews as a result of this zero-setup-needed WordPress Plugin!
Make sure to check out all the other WordPress-related goodies that I have!
Let me know if you use it!
Once again, you’re cookin’ up another sweet plugin. “Really” love the Categories plugin you created recently.
thanks matt! how are things with you?
We’re good. Doing a lot of custom development using Standard. M2LIVE has a number of events lined up for 2011.
sweet! keep me posted.
Love it man – another wordpress plugin review a-coming!
How can I limit it to 5 posts instead of ten?
Solved it – Open up widget.php and change 10 to 5. It’s that simple.
Thanks Matt, I was about to ask the same question. Oh, and thank you too John for making this plugin available. It look looks great on the the site.
sure thing JD!
ah. not a setting right now. but you can, of course, modify the plugin yourself. very simple.
Sweet! I have got to give some of your plugins a go. Maybe when I get back home…
cool! let me know how you use it!
Love this. Will be putting it up over at my place at some point today.
Thanks John.
will you customize it at all?
I did some minor css editing…
you are awesome. congrats on the 300th post!
My blog is now sportin’ the new Top Posts plugin, http://www.mattcarlisle.com. Thanks, again!
ah, sweet!
perfecto!
Downloading and installing now. Thanks John!
sure thing joe! have a great weekend!
Looks Great. Can you limit by category?
Also where is it determining the traffic from? Its list of top posts are different from both WP stats and Google Analytics.
adam, this is based on comments.
Misunderstood the source. Thanks
not a problem adam.
we might create one that is based on traffic… or add that feature.
I think that would be great addition. One thought that i had as I was install this plugin was if I would continue to do a review at the end of each month of the top 10 posts, but since I base it off of pageviews I feel that this approach gives me the opportunity to highlight 2 different (though not completely different) sets of posts.
cool. let me look into this.
I installed the plugin. Unfortunately, when I set it up for “all time” it is quite inaccurate as to what my most viewed posts really are (it doesn’t even have my most viewed post of all time on the list).
Also, I wonder if you coud set up the “monthly” option to more like a past 30 days rather than the current month. Only because at the beginning of each month there will only be a couple of blogs on the list. Just a thought!
you didn’t read the post, did you? it’s based on comments, not views. sorry!
I read through the post too quickly, I missed that. My apologies!
all good!
Don’t know how I missed this post… better late than never! Thanks again for releasing the most AWESOMESAUCE, FREE content ever!
sure thing dustin! i love doing it!
Hey great plugin!! Any chance adding the ability to display the thumbnail of the recent post as well?
i could think about it. great idea.
Great thanks!!! Btw can you consider creating a PHP code or some way to use the plugin outside the widget section?
If you could visit trinitylk.com I have replaced the tabs which came with theme with plugins.
The recent tab was replaced by a plugin called special recent posts and I want to replace the popular tab with your plugin.
cool. thanks.
don’t forget to grab a gravatar: http://tentblogger.com/gravatar/
Nice plugin ! Downloading and installing now.
Thank you, Jhon
sure thing!
One thing I’d like to see is a top posts widget organized by hits rather than comments.
This is pretty sweet though.
looking into it!
Hi, Know this is a little late but wondered if you could update the plugin to either remove the target=_blank element of the link (I removed it myself in the plugin editor) or make it an option?
I didn’t really want to create a new browser window each time someone clicked on one of the top posts.
Great plug-in by the way. Thanks.
David.
that’s a great thought. let me think about that one!
Can you help me !?
I don’t want use plugin ,Can you give for me code be added theme directly .
And code Top Comment .b/c i don’t know much about php .
Thanks a lot !
i currently don’t offer this support… but you could do some searching for some basic php lessons!
Hi John,
I love your plugins, however I have a small issue with “top posts” and “top commenters”. I use the Suffusion theme and if I check “hide total comments” on Top Commenters or in any case with “Top Posts” it kinda looks strange, with a bunch of polka dots behind the list of top posts/commenters.
Do you know how I could fix this, so I can use both and in a way that they don’t look ugly?
ah, you may have to spend some time styling it for your blog theme.
How do I do that? There are no options for those two plugins.
oh, you’d have to do that yourself… no options in it… yet.
I’m confused, I’m supposed to do what myself then?
Maybe you misunderstood me. I don’t want the plugins to look a special way, I want them to look the way they’re supposed to. Except that they don’t.
The “top post” never does, and the “top commenters” look normal only if I uncheck “hide total comments”.
I just checked it so that you can see what I mean, if you want to take a look: http://ogijima.com
Now, if you don’t want to or don’t have time to see what’s wrong, no big deal, I can do without them, I just thought you’d like to know of any bug.
don’t see the plugin active?
“Top commenters” is in between the badge that says “Ogijima in French” and the one that says “Blog4Japan”.
david,
the plugin inherits some styling. we’ll look to extract it out on an update.
Thanks.
I is working on my site, can you tell me how to include it manually in my sidebar … both by day, month and year.
As well as well, including my own css
awesome! rock it!
How yo increase width?! In .css .tentblogger-top-posts-widget-wrapper select { margin-bottom: 1em; width: 200%; }
“200%” is a default value.. but I increase this number but get the same results..
Somone can help me?!
you could do it through the editor or a code editor. can you do this?
Hey John,
Just want to thank you again for your site and plug-ins. Using them as with Standard Theme as fast as I can understand them and having a blast.
I find your site easy to understand and the directions are great. Keep up the great work!
sure thing! thanks for your support! let others know about it!
I finally got around to doing some minor styling for this & it looks/works great! Thanks again John!
Is there any way to exclude certain posts? I want to do the ‘All Time’ option, but there are a couple posts that show up which are completely irrelevant now. The only way I can think of is to start deleting comments on those posts… And I really don’t wanna do that.
you could do that… but they become irrelevant so quickly (after 30 days)?
Well it’s really only one post that reigns in all time comments on my blog & it was the “Get An Invite To Google+” post where if people commented, I would send them an invite… Over 200 comments. So, yeah… No longer relevant, and none of my other blogs have come close to that many comments.