Steven Lambert

I tried that at first, but as far as I can tell, WordPress does not store it’s own API Key in the database at all. I searched for it using PhPMyAdmin, and nothing came up. So I was forced to find it a different way and the api.wordpress.com site is the only way I found. ?? I wish it stored it in the database so I could reference it.

I would love to get the new version released this weekend, but it depends if I’m able to put in as much time as I would like to.

Moving the widget to the inactive area will work just fine after the API Key has been entered. If you feel confident with the PHP code you could just hard code the API key to the options table, though the function to grab all the post view information is only ran either every hour or when you click the save button on the widget.

I’m not quite sure why it would have worked on your dev server without the API key since the Jetpack API needs that key to access the information. Very interesting.

The current setup does require that the API key be entered in the widget per site. The way in which you describe how you want to use it tells me I should remove the API key from the widget and put a plugin settings page where you enter the key. This is probably how it should be anyway, plus it would let me implement the other settings I’m working on better. Thanks for the support request so I could think about it this way.

Your request makes sense and is valid. I’ll look into implementing this in the coming patches. Do you think having a check box for each post (say in the “Quick Edit” or sidebar of a post) that would mark the post OK to list in the widget is a viable solution?

I think I could get the functionality of most popular posts this month/year. Just a quick question so I program it correctly: What would you expect to happen if you have the widget set to display “Most popular posts this month” and it becomes the 1st day of a new month/year? All the stats would reduce to 0 views and none would be “most popular.” Essentially, the widget would then grab X random articles to display until there are enough views on different posts. Is this desired? What do you think the widget should do in this case?

Is there a reason why you would want to display your least popular posts to your visitors? I don’t understand the business logic behind that one.