Popular posts, separated by categories

  • Resolved George

    (@giorgos93)


    1 year, 9 months ago

    Hi, Hector!

    I’ve already offered this idea some time ago. But maybe now you’ll be ready to consider it ??

    So, my idea is: can you add popular posts, separated by categories? All of my related posts plugins (YARPP and Inline Related Posts) have this option. It increases page views, because all the posts are related to each other.

    But your plugin’s popular posts (I use a widget in a sidebar) are not related to any category. So I think, that it would me much more useful to add an option for categories / subcategories separation. Please, think about it.

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  • Plugin Author Hector Cabrera

    (@hcabrera)

    Hi @giorgos93,

    There is already a way to list popular posts by category though?

    Thread Starter George

    (@giorgos93)

    @hcabrera hmmm… either I missed this option (is it new?). Or you didn’t understand, what I meant ??

    I’ve just found an old topic, where I offered this idea: https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/how-to-make-several-lists-of-popular-posts/ . And you gave me the same solution there ??

    However, this option allows to show popular posts from certain categories, and to exclude certain categories IN GENERAL. But I use “Popular Posts” widget in my sidebar for ALL posts, so I can’t exclude certain categories there.

    Can I somehow show popular posts from different categories on posts from the EXACT SAME categories? For example, on “Quizzes” category show only popular quizzes. On “Websites for writers” category show only posts with popular websites for writers, etc?

    Plugin Author Hector Cabrera

    (@hcabrera)

    is it new?

    No, in fact it’s been there for years ??

    Can I somehow show popular posts from different categories on posts from the EXACT SAME categories?

    Ah, like have the widget automatically detect current post’s category and then list popular posts from the same category? Well, no, there’s no setting for this (as I’m sure you’re already aware of haha).

    There’s likely a way to do this programmatically via PHP/MySQL but I feel that’s likely a bit complex so I’ll give this some more thought and get back to you soon.

    Thread Starter George

    (@giorgos93)

    @hcabrera yes, now you understood me correctly ?? I hope, that you’ll be able to add this option in future!

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