Popular Posts displayed are just.. not correct!

  • Hi, awesome plugin, when it works. But I have this weird issue that old posts noones reading, are showing as my most popular.

    <?php $wppparams = array(
    'header_start' => '',
    'header' => '',
    'header_end' => '',
    'range' => 'weekly',
    'limit' => 4,
    'wpp_start' => '<div id="pop-posts">',
    'stats_comments' => 0,
    'thumbnail_width' => 120,
    'thumbnail_height' => 80,
    'post_html' => $post_html,
    'wpp_end' => '</div>'
    ); ?>
<?php if (function_exists('wpp_get_mostpopular')): ?>
    <?php wpp_get_mostpopular($wppparams); ?>
<?php endif; ?>

    An article not displayed at all is actually by far the most popular this week. I’ve even tried artificially inflating others, but they never appear.

    I’m using Slimstat for numbers, and it shows much more like what I’d expect than WPP.

    Any idea why the disparity? Can I make it use Slimstat’s data? Can I fix it *somehow*?!

    https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/wordpress-popular-posts/

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  • We would be happy to help integrate our code with WPP’s.

    Camu
    WP SlimStat Dev Team

    Thread Starter Ollie Ford

    (@ollie-ford)

    Oh you Sir are the awesome kind of dev ??

    Thread Starter Ollie Ford

    (@ollie-ford)

    Hell, it doesn’t even agree with Jetpack’s stats.

    The posts WPP shows have 1 or 0 views, meanwhile there are others with 1 view not shown, and more still with more than 1 view!

    Just a quick note to say that you can use SlimStat’s API to get the same information ??

    https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/wp-slimstat/faq/

    I am getting a similar problem. I have two stats packages that clearly show one particular post to be very popular. However it doesn’t appear in the stats generated by this plugin. I use Google Analytics, Clicky and Jetpack which are all consistent in telling what’s popular. This plugin is throwing some very strange ‘popular posts’ including some pages that are barely read.

    Any idea why this plugin’s counts are so different?

    jrmyprtr,

    1. Please start your own thread, next time
    2. Is Javascript Mode enabled on your site? That could explain why you have different numbers in WP SlimStat: it is counting bots, while GA and Jetpack don’t ??

    Sorry about that.

    Yes Javascript is on. The numbers are wildly different between this plugin and the other packages. Is there any way to stop counting bots?

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