[Plugin: Jetpack by WordPress.com] Need to exclude page from "popular posts and pages"

Thanks for the feedback! We’ll look at this for a future update.

Thanks a lot Tim, I’d really appreciate it!

Exactly the same request! I want to be able to exclude the front page, the blog list pages and contact page. I just want the most read list to show single posts and specific content pages.

Thanks
Tim, London

Hi,

Same here. Of course it is important to be able to exclude pages in the “popular posts” widget. Why would I want to show pages in there…

Stefan

Well Stefan,

The page on my site that sees the biggest traffic is the front page – obviously, as this is where most visitors arrive. When visitors come into the site, they will then find that on widget display of the most popular pages, the number one link takes them straight back where they’ve just come from.

The widget does not display the pages most popular for rich and engaging content, it displays the pages seeing the most traffic. Without the ability to exclude the front / landing page from the ‘most popular’ count, there’s a danger it gets trapped in a positive feedback loop and no other page will ever occupy the number one spot.

That is why I don’t want certain pages to be counted in the ‘most popular’ widget.

Tim, London

Any update on whether or not this is likely to be added?

I’m going to have to choose (or create — perhaps simply by further filtering the output from your plug-in) an alternative plug-in if this feature isn’t going to be added soon; it hinders efforts to present a professional image with my “popular posts” page regularly ranking highly on my “popular posts ” page.

@wpstefan: the issue is excluding specific pages, not just pages in general.

I have to point this out… the original post was made 8 months ago. The last post 4 months ago – still no fix or addition to jetpack top posts widget to exclude specific pages/post – like the blog page or home page?? Really people? Other plugins are doing it out of the box. Why not jetpack?

my bad! i read it wrong!!

Can’t find a way to delete this entry, so removed the contents.

sorry…

Jetpack itself doesn’t include this option yet, but you can use this plugin instead:
https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/top-posts-pages-widget/

We haven’t forgotten about your suggestion though; I will post again here if we include this feature in a future Jetpack update.

I found this post that should help everyone out in the interim. It allows you to remove pages from the widget, although a little more manually than normal:

https://www.ramsukul.com/show-only-posts-in-jetpack-top-posts-pages-widget/

i am also wanting a solution to this.. i want to display both tpo pages and posts in my widget, i just want to exclude 1 page from that ranking which is my homepage (static page)

can anyone help!?

You can go into /jetpack/modules/widgets/top-posts.php , look for the line towards the end of the file around line 275 that starts “if ( ‘publish’ !=

and replace with some code that excludes by post ids:

if ( 'publish' != $post->post_status || !empty( $post->post_password ) || empty( $post->ID ) || $post_id=='13849' || $post_id=='2568' || $post_id=='7231' )
				continue;

what about by page?

@roland: The same code applies to pages too. You have to get the postID of the page. Go to the Dashboard–>Pages and hover your mouse over the name of the page. Then look at the status bar in your browser (in mine it’s at the bottom of the window) and you will see the postID there.

worked a treat! thanks!!!