Comments on: Show Popular Posts in WordPress – without a plugin

By: @realpb

@realpb — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 04:02:33 +0000

thanks. you rock.

By: igi

igi — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 01:38:55 +0000

EXCELLENT!!!

By: Vera Rorato

Vera Rorato — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 16:08:47 +0000

Hi! I’m trying to get a code to put on a page of the most commentes post! I find this tutorial, but I had already tested this code, and it just works on themes files, not in page, even using a plugin that enables php on pages…

Can you help me find a code that I could use on pages?

By: Livio

Livio — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 06:25:16 +0000

Hi Binny, thanx for the code, its great

By: Martin

Martin — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 20:05:15 +0000

Opps sory here the structure of my category:
Videos (ID12) –>Activities –>Bike –>Swimming –>Horse Riding –>Movie (ID13) –>Action –>Romance –>Song (ID14) –>Techno –>Hip Hop Home (ID15) Others categories… (ID...)

By: Martin

Martin — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 20:02:39 +0000

Really nice exemple!

May I ask you something I didnt find anywere. You will be my savior if you can answer me

What I want is to make a query who can show most popular post from a specific category and his sub-categories only.

Here a example of what I’m trying to do.

Videos
–>Activities
–>Bike
–>Swimming
–>Horse Riding
–>Movie
–>Action
–>Romance
–>Song
–>Techno
–>Hip Hop
Home
Others categories…

So what I want to do is to build a query who will show post made in the videos category (including all his subcategories, sub-sub categories, etc)

I see you already answer my first question (how to show top 10 popular post) now how can we specify the parent category and all his childrens as limit?

I see a lot of plugin who can exclude certain category, but that not the way I want it… I wish some one may have the answer

Thx in advance!

By: Brian

Brian — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:15:58 +0000

Great tip! I would add the improvement since all pages, revisions and posts are stored in the wp_posts table. Update the MYSQL statement to be this:
$popular_posts = $wpdb->get_results("SELECT id,post_title FROM {$wpdb->prefix}posts WHERE post_status = 'publish' AND post_type = 'post' ORDER BY comment_count DESC LIMIT 0,10");

This narrows the results to ONLY posts, not pages, and only those posts that are published, not just saved revisions.

Cheers!
Brian

By: Otto Rask

Otto Rask — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:01:00 +0000

Thanks for posting, I was leaning towards this technique and your post made me choose it. Although I wish this could be expanded to take a some sort of an average between views and comments… I need to research a bit more, maybe make a post about it if I get it working.

By: Jimmy

Jimmy — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 13:32:34 +0000

Great! I’ve tried it on of my blogs.

By: Simon

Simon — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 05:51:59 +0000

Wow, great tip. I am gonna try to implement it on my site. Thanks!