Only grab top posts from Google Analytics, do not compare to posts in system?

  • Resolved frankin-grep

    (@boulderpoet)


    6 years, 6 months ago

    Hi,

    The plugin works great on our main site which shows last 2 years of posts. We also have a separate archive site with our older posts in it, older than 2 years. Both sites use the same Google Analytics account.

    When I install Toplytics on our older site, it looks like it compares posts in the older site with Google Analytics, and then only posts the top 5 posts from the older site. So most popular on the old site are all old posts. But on the older site I want the most popular to show the newest posts which live on our new site.

    How do I configure Toplytics to only pull back the top 5 posts from Google Analytics and not look at what posts exist in the older system?

    Thanks for your help,
    Dean

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  • Plugin Author Presslabs

    (@presslabs)

    Hello @boulderpoet,

    We have not had a use case like this before.

    So from what I understand you want to force displaying the top posts from analytics and use that URL instead of the posts you have in your actual database?

    A feature like this would take quite a lot of alteration to the current code structure.

    I’ll open a feature request for you so we consider this in the next Sprint.

    Best regards,
    ~Presslabs Team

    Thread Starter frankin-grep

    (@boulderpoet)

    Hi,

    Thank you for getting back to me. Yes, to just show the top 5 posts from Google Analytics (GA) for the time period and use the URL from GA instead of the database.

    Question: Is there a way to take the toplytics JSON feed from my main site and use it to feed a sidebar on my second (older posts) site? If that is what the toplytics javascript code is for, can you share a code example of how to set that up?

    Thank you,
    Dean

    Plugin Author Presslabs

    (@presslabs)

    Hello @boulderpoet,

    Thank you!

    We’ve added a feature request in our GitHub page and we’ll try to include this feature to add a custom endpoint for your widget in the next major release which is planned for next week (the public beta).

    Best regards,
    ~Presslabs Team

    Thread Starter frankin-grep

    (@boulderpoet)

    Hi,

    Thank you! Look forward to trying the beta when ready. Very exciting.

    Best,
    Dean

    • This reply was modified 6 years, 5 months ago by frankin-grep.
    Thread Starter frankin-grep

    (@boulderpoet)

    Hello,

    Checking in if this functionality was added to the plugin? This:

    “to just show the top 5 posts from Google Analytics (GA) for the time period and use the URL from GA instead of the database.”

    Thank you,
    Dean

    Plugin Author Presslabs

    (@presslabs)

    Hello @boulderpoet

    We are testing this functionality right now for our new version 4 of the plugin.

    If you want to help test the BETA we can send it over via email if you hit us up on support[at]presslabs.com.

    Best regards,
    ~Presslabs Team

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