[Plugin: WordPress Popular Posts] How to customize layout

Actually my needs are to manipulate the template of a single element of the query a little deeper than I could with the available tags.

Since I had to literally build the image url trough shortcode with something like:

https://domain.xyz/multimedia/%5Bimage custom field]

maybe could be useful to be able to add more pattern elements.
Is there a way to do that?

Thanks in advance
Keep up the good work!
Regards

Carlo

Hi Carlo,

You should be able to arrange the HTML output by using the wpp_start, wpp_end, post_start, post_end properties with your shortcodes.

I am aware that this is a little limited at the moment, and I do plan to make this more flexible on future versions. I’ll take a look at that plugin you mentioned, maybe I could grab some ideas from it.

Hi Hector,

thanks for your answer, I will try something… or I will wait until next plugin upgrade!

Anyway here you find how the plugin I was talking about works… hope it could help!

https://github.com/scribu/wp-posts-to-posts/wiki/Actions-and-filters

Thanks again!
Bye
Carlo

Hi Hector,

I’m sorry to bother but I’m trying to do what you said and I’m getting weird results.

I’m trying to load wpp_get_mostpopular function trough a shortcode to easily manage the parameters.

Actually if I try something like this

$content = '<li>'

…

wpp_get_mostpopular(array(
'limit' 	=> 5,
'range' 	=> 'monthly',
'order_by'	=> 'views',
'post_type'	=> 'shows',
'stats_views'=> 0,
'stats_comments'=> 0,
'post_start' => $content,
'post_end' 	=> '</li>',
));

but if I try

$content = '<li class="customclass">'

I always get

• …

I tried with <p> and I get the same result.
It works alone but not customized.

How I was supposed to customize my layout?

Thanks and regards mate.

Carlo