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Updated WordPress Plugin: Top 10

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  1. Chung Bey Luen (14 comments.) says:

    Thanks for sharing. I’m looking for a popular post plugin. This post just come in time.

  2. srinivas (1 comments.) says:

    this plug in is good,
    but practically i.e. for big sites this is a headache

    because it stores some more information into database and fetches from database i.e. more load on server.

    for this purpose, i use stats plugin which uses wordpress.com database and i use top posts plugin to display top posts.

    i don’t want to disappoint you ( i know howmuch you worked and howmuch you have excited ) but just telling my opinion.

    thanks.

    • Ajay (209 comments.) says:

      Actually, this is running out here at WLTC which gets thousands of visitors daily :)

      I’m not sure how far true it is, but in case of the stats plugins, I believe fetching from an external server is a lot slower than fetching from your local server.

      Has anyone run some tests on this?

  3. George Serradinho (107 comments.) says:

    thanks for sharing this info, I will try the plugin.

  4. Erick says:

    WP-SuperCache sucks big time. Could you please try this with 1BlogCacher (which just works, and often better than WPSC) and let us know if it’s compatible? Thanks!

    • Ajay (209 comments.) says:

      I’m working on a version that should be independent of the caching plugin.

  5. Erick says:

    Btw, popularity can be measured by number of views, and by number of comments/trackbacks. It would be nice if your plugin allowed us to choose, or even better, weight these two criteria in our own personal calculation of “popularity”. To me, number of views doesn’t matter. I care about comments.

    • Ajay (209 comments.) says:

      I already plan to order by comments. However, running a weightage is something I will have to thing about. Can’t promise this.

      If anyone has an idea on how this can be implemented, do let me know.

      • Erick says:

        Thanks for considering. About weighting, you can let me set my percentage. I would give

        60% Comments ($c_percentage)
        40% Views ($v_percentage)

        Other people may have other preference between these two. Once you have a percentage for me, you can calculate a “popularity score” for each post:

        popularity score =
        (number of comments * $c_percentage +
        number of views * $v_percentage ) / 100

        Then sort by this popularity score.

        • Ajay (209 comments.) says:

          Sounds good. But, will have to seriously look into how this can be managed. I for see a problem on blogs with lots of posts.

          No promises yet. But, I’ll give it a shot :)

          • Erick says:

            Make a separate table for this plugin that caches the counts (hourly, daily, weekly….this could also be an option in the config, I personally just need daily Top 10, not hourly).

          • Ajay (209 comments.) says:

            Cool. That’s a good idea.

          • Erick says:

            You’re welcome. I would like to have this recency selection as a parameter for easy querying…I am doing this right now using pure SQL outside of WordPress, and i cache the daily/monthly/yearly/ever counts into a file with four arrays. Works fine for me. But a plugin would be super as it’d then cache the generated page using 1BlogCacher. (I hope your cache-independent version is not using silly widgets/JS or something..) many thanks!



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