[Plugin: WordPress Popular Posts] If mostpopular is empty, show yesterday's posts

Hi jaggreene,

Currently, there’s no way to achieve this. Earlier versions of WordPress Popular Posts had an undocumented “yesterday” option for the Time Range feature that allowed users to get the most popular posts from yesterday only. However, the daily option has been replaced with the last 24 hours so the yesterday option doesn’t work anymore.

Hi Hector,

Thanks for the answer.

How do I change the above code then to show the most popular posts from the week (instead of yesterday) when $mostpopular is empty?

Here’s a modified copy of my plugin. I didn’t test it, but it should do what you want.

Be aware that this is a hack, and once WordPress Popular Posts is updated again all these changes will be lost. Modifications were made on the get_popular_posts function only, so you probably want to save a copy of that for future reference.

Hi,

thanks for the code. $mostpopular just shows up blank instead of displaying the week’s video posts.

I think my best option now is to just have an html notice when $mostpopular is blank directing them to a search page.

I had

if ( !is_array($mostpopular) || empty($mostpopular) ) {
				$content .= "<p><a href=\"/videos\">".__('Looking for videos? Click here', 'wordpress-popular-posts')."</a></p>"."\n";
			}

I also tried

if ( !is_array($mostpopular) || empty($mostpopular) ) {
				$mostpopular .= "<p><a href=\"/videos\">".__('Looking for videos? Click here', 'wordpress-popular-posts')."</a></p>"."\n";
			}

neither seemed to work

Hi,

Any help on this would be appreciated