Contributors: leobaiano
Donate link: http://lbideias.com.br/donate
Tags: ranking views, ranking posts, posts views, popular, popular posts
Requires at least: 3.8
Tested up to: 3.8
Stable tag: 1.1
License: GPLv2 or later
License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html

This plugin counts the number of visitors to each post and generates a ranking of most viewed posts.

This plugin generates a list of more pupulares posts based on the number of visits the post received. The plugin uses cookies to ensure that the user's visit is counted only once in each post, making the manipulation of the ranking.

You can set how many posts will be displayed in the ranking set that only posts from a particular CPT or a particular category will be taken into consideration, among other settings.

You can contribute to the source code in our GitHub page.

To install just follow the installation steps of most WordPress plugin's:

e.g.

1. Download the file lb-back-to-top.zip;
2. Unzip the file on your computer;
3. Upload folder post-ranking-view, you just unzip to /wp-content/plugins/ directory;
4. Activate the plugin through the Plugins menu in WordPress;
5. Be happy.

To display a list of posts you have two options:

1 - Let the plugin generate the HTML <?php if ( function_exists( 'displayRanking' ) ) { displayRanking(); } ?>

2 - Save an array with the data in a variable <?php if (function_exists ('displayRanking')) { $posts = displayRanking( '','','', true ); ?>

` displayRanking( $amount, $post_type, $category, $print, $thumb );

$amount - Amount of posts to be displayed. Default = 5
$post_type - Type of post that should be considered in the ranking, if not set all kind of posts will enter the ranking. Default = null
$category - Category that should be considered in the ranking, if not set posts from all categories will enter the ranking. Default = null
$print - Sets whether HTML is returned or an array with the posts ranking. Default = null ( display HTML )
$thumb - Show thumbnail or not - true to display thumbnail, default false

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The plugin does not bring any CSS style for the list of posts, the visual follows the style sheet theme, so to change the look just customize the CSS of the theme.

The first parameter of the function to set the number of posts by default 5 posts will be listed, but if you want to change this value just set the value in the first parameter. For example, if you want the 10 most viewed posts are displayed use the following code to call the ranking:

<?php if ( function_exists( 'displayRanking' ) ) { displayRanking(10); } ?>

To show the thumbnail you need to set the parameter to true $ thumb, below an example of displaying the ranking with thumbnail image:

<?php if ( function_exists( 'displayRanking' ) ) { displayRanking( '', '', '', '', true ); } ?>

• Including the option to show the post thumbnail

• Creation of the plugin, the initial version.