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

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!

By: raol

raol — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 05:39:43 +0000

Thanks Binny,
made my work more easier..!

By: chaz

chaz — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 04:26:41 +0000

What if we want to display the top 5 as simple links after the first post/article on the main page? How can we display this? How could we setup a cron file to output this code to a static include file to be called from the main page?

By: Anish K.S

Anish K.S — Wed, 27 May 2009 11:08:27 +0000

Binny , i will try this.

By: Gagan

Gagan — Tue, 12 May 2009 08:49:25 +0000

Hey Thanks alot for the tip, I was searching this query on Google but did not find any solution. Thanks for the tip

By: Vivek

Vivek — Mon, 04 May 2009 06:49:20 +0000

Thanks very much for this tip.

By: dinu

dinu — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 11:07:36 +0000

I was using this on footer.. should add this again .. ( I lost it during an upgrade )