gregyorke

Is there a way to force a recount of comment, trackback, and pingback counts? We’ve been blasted w/ a lot of comment spam lately and even though we hold, then delete, them, it seems like the Popularity Contest counts get incremented anyway — yes? I wouldn’t want to lose the other data, just “recount” those three types from scratch. Possible?

Is there anything that would cause the list not to update correctly? We have had a post up since yesterday that has 110 permalink views (according to our ISP’s stats) and 8 comments, both of which are weighted heavily in our Popularity Contest setup, yet it is not registering. If I look at Dashboard / Most Popular Posts / Views / Permalink Views, the post does not show up, even though it should be about#5 on the list. It also has three pingbacks (which show up as comments on the blog) but they do not show up on Popularity Contest’s pingbacks list, where they should rank #2. Any ideas?

Would running https://mydomain.com/wp-content/plugins/popularity-contest.php force a recalculation? I tried that and it didn’t seem to change anything.

On digging into the table wp_ak_popularity, it looks like while new posts have records in the table, nothing has updated since 7/4 — all zeroes, EXCEPT that comments and trackbacks seem to be about right. But nothing for homepage views, permalink views, etc.

UPDATE — this seems to be caused by a conflict with Google Sitemaps 2.6 (https://www.arnebrachhold.de/2005/06/05/google-sitemaps-generator-v2-final). I installed that sometime over the weekend and that seems to have stopped PC from updating its table.