[Plugin wp-postviews] fetch most viewed post from a category

If you are wanting that displayed on a single.php, then aren’t you looking to return the most viewed post from the category of the post being displayed on that single page?

If so, wouldn’t it be something like:
<?php
$category = get_the_category();
if (function_exists(‘get_most_viewed_category’)) {
get_most_viewed_category($category[0],’both’,10);
}
?>
`

See:
Template_Tags/get_the_category

It was solved by Gamerz thanks to him.

Posting a resolution to the problem here would be beneficial to others. Thanks.

Happen to see this:
<?php if (function_exists('get_most_viewed_category') && intval(get_query_var("cat")) > 0): ?>
<ul>
<?php get_most_viewed_category(get_query_var("cat"),'both',10); ?>
</ul>
<?php endif; ?>
And it works on the default theme (archive.php). You cannot put it in anywhere except the archive.php because that is the only page where the category information get retrieved.

As always, LC, your support of your plugins is superb! Thanks.

Hi Michael, Thanks so much for the compliments =D

Hello guys,

I have the same problem that perfectlover had in the first place. I try to display the most viewed posts and the least viewed posts of a category on the category’s template (category-N.php).

I tried this:

<?php if (function_exists('get_most_viewed_category') && intval(get_query_var("cat")) > 0): ?>
<ul>
<?php get_most_viewed_category(get_query_var("cat"),'both',10); ?>
</ul>
<?php endif; ?>

but it returns “N/A”.

After reading Lester Chan’s forum (this topic in particular), I came up with this:

<?php
query_posts('v_sortby=views&v_orderby=asc');
$recent_posts = new WP_Query("cat=3&showposts=3&post_status=publish");
while ($recent_posts->have_posts()):
$recent_posts->the_post();?>
<li><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" title="<?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a><span>(<?php the_views() ?> fois)</span></li>
<?php
endwhile;
wp_reset_query();
?>

Which works fine to display the least viewed posts.

However, when I replace “asc” by “desc” in the first query line, I get the exact same list, that is to say a list of the LEAST viewed posts, and not the most viewed ones.

Any idea why sorting posts by “desc” doesn’t work?

The code used to work, though, with 2.7.2. I upgraded to 2.8.2 a few days ago, and it seems the problem appeared at that moment.

Thanks a lot for your help!