Popularity Contest Plugin (beta)

At the bottom of the Most Popular Posts page I got this error message:

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/httpd/vhosts/normgregory.com/subdomains/blog/httpdocs/wp-content/plugins/popularity-contest.php on line 941

Same here.

I get 2:

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /usr/home/xerocool/domains/r0x0rz.info/public_html/wp-content/plugins/popularity-contest.php on line 710

and:
/usr/home/xerocool/domains/r0x0rz.info/public_html/wp-content/plugins/popularity-contest.php on line 710

and:
/usr/home/xerocool/domains/r0x0rz.info/public_html/wp-content/plugins/popularity-contest.php on line 940

I meant 3 ;).

Thanks, easy fix for next release. Looks like you have some categories without posts.

How do I turn off showing the % in all the posts? I would only want to use it in the sidebar.

edit: nevermind..it helps to read the source ??

From the README.txt:

…read the installation instructions at the top of the plugin to disable showing popularity for each post.

I got these errors in the report page:

WordPress database error: [Got error 12 from storage engine]
SELECT DISTINCT c.cat_name AS cat_name, AVG(pop.total) AS avg FROM wp_posts p LEFT JOIN wp_ak_popularity pop ON p.ID = pop.post_id LEFT JOIN wp_post2cat pc ON p.ID = pc.post_id LEFT JOIN wp_categories c ON pc.category_id = c.cat_ID GROUP BY c.cat_ID ORDER BY avg DESC

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /www/a/automatorwor/htdocs/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/popularity-contest.php on line 754
WordPress database error: [Got error 12 from storage engine]
SELECT MONTH(p.post_date) AS month, AVG(pop.total) AS avg FROM wp_posts p LEFT JOIN wp_ak_popularity pop ON p.ID = pop.post_id WHERE YEAR(p.post_date) = ‘2005’ GROUP BY month ORDER BY avg DESC

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /www/a/automatorwor/htdocs/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/popularity-contest.php on line 774
WordPress database error: [Got error 12 from storage engine]
SELECT MONTH(p.post_date) AS month, AVG(pop.total) AS avg FROM wp_posts p LEFT JOIN wp_ak_popularity pop ON p.ID = pop.post_id WHERE YEAR(p.post_date) = ‘2004’ GROUP BY month ORDER BY avg DESC

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /www/a/automatorwor/htdocs/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/popularity-contest.php on line 774

Interesting – can you run that top SQL query on the database directly and let me know what the error from MySQL is?

weird– I restarted the plugin and they’re gone now (I am still getting the two errors already described above).

This is working well for me now– quesiton: I’m using it in my sidebar like this, which gives me a nice “top 10” ordered list of posts in category 1. :
<ol><php akpc_most_popular_in_cat(10,'<li>','</li>',1); ?></ol>

I have a number of subcategories under a top-level category that doesn’t have the posts explicitly attached to them–as a way method to have an “invisible” category. Is there a way to use the top level cat and have all the sub-cats show in the list? Short of this, could there be a way to include multiple categories?

The example code included in sidebar.php makes it easy to make the list ‘category aware’ for a single category. However, there is no concept of showing multiple categories in the current code.

Feel free to add/edit as you like – it shouldn’t be hard to modify.

Easy for you to say, I’m not a coder ??

I’m setting up some conditional bits which mostly work, but “is_home” is going utterly ignored–it’s returning nothing on the home page, but “is_page” and “is_single” work fine:

<php if (is_home() || is_page() || is_single()) { ?>
<php akpc_most_popular_in_cat(10,'<li>','</li>',61); ?>

<php } elseif (is_category()) { ?>
<php akpc_most_popular_in_cat(10,'<li>','</li>'); ?>

<php } elseif (is_month()) { ?>
<php akpc_most_popular_in_month(10,'<li>','</li>'); ?>
<php } ?>

Ideas?

Hi there,

Great plugin
I too have the errors mention and yes I have categories not used. I also get it for ‘Last Year’ – Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/editor/public_html/news/wp-content/plugins/popularity-contest.php on line 940

How do you limit ‘most popular posts’ in the side bar please?

Thanks

Was looking forward to using this, but for some reason it’s altered something. My site now only displays one post per page – it has the “next page” links, but still only one post at a time. No other settings have been changed, no other files – deactivated the plugin, and deleted it from the server.

Ideas welcome, please! Can’t think what has gone wrong.

Hi Alex
Great plugin

I have the Line 940 error too

Keep coding !

Does this screw up feeds as my feedburner link no longer works I get: Error on line -1: Premature end of file. on Feedburner or do you think that is unrelated?

Thanks

cou – I don’t see the problem you describe on your site

Karb – I don’t see why it would hurt your feeds, however I’ve changed the plugin for the next release so that it doesn’t show popularity in the feeeds. I don’t think I understand you sidebar question.