themaiden

Mosey,

Hi. I opened that plugin and nosed around a bit. It looks like it works on a principle very similar to what I’ve already got up and running and which I’ve never been happy with. It isn’t really what I was looking for. However, looking at it does make me feel better about my own, already in place, solution. Maybe it isn’t as bad as I’ve feared.

Hi,

This is an old thread but I’m bumping it because I’m thinking of doing something similar and I am wondering if anyone can think of a reason why setting wp_post.post_type to some new value– like ‘article’, for example, which I’d then use for my own ends– could cause trouble. This takes posts of this new type out of the normal wp_query making for a very convenient way to filter them. I’ve been playing with the setup on an offline server and nothing terrible happens, though the wp_query has to be modified to get these additions to show up in a normal ‘Loop’ which is something I want only in very restricted circumstances.

This is a month old topic but the codex lists the following query hooks :

posts_where
posts_join
posts_groupby
posts_orderby
posts_distinct
posts_fields
post_limits
posts_where_paged
posts_join_paged
posts_request filters

Looks like ‘posts_fields’ is the one you want.

Take care.

Hi,

First– attention Alex King–, I love popularity contest. It is a fantastic plugin.

Now for the support request, I have had a recurring problem with it. For some reason, every 1000 or 1500 visitors Popularity Contest just stops tracking posts. I can tell when this happens because normally a new post has a percentage of 1, but when things go wrong a new post reads ‘unranked’. Disabling the plugin, then re-enabling it seems to kick start things again. I now have a second problem, and I’d bet its related.

I have a post– https://www.hells-handmaiden.com/?p=1113– that now has a popularity of 91% according to the stats at the bottom of the post. The odd thing is that this post doesn’t show up at all in any of the other popularity lists– like the one on the sidebar on the homepage, https://www.hells-handmaiden.com. Post 1113 should be second on the list, but instead it is nowhere to be found. To make things more perplexing, post 1113 did show up where it should have been earlier today. It then just vanished. I’m not sure why.

I run WP 2.0.3 with the default theme and numerous plugins, which I’ll list though disabling them all does not effect the problem. That, and all of these plugins have been functioning together fine for weeks now.

Adhesive
Autometa
Brian’s Threaded Comments
Dagon Design Sitemap Generator
Footnotes
Landing Sites
Nice Related Posts
WP-Print
Post Teaser
Popularity Contest 1.2b
Sociable
Sideblog
Terong Related Links
Ultimate Google Analytics
Ubernyms
Wordpress 2.0.3 Tuneup

Alright… well, strike that second problem. Things have returned to normal… not sure why but I doubt anyone can help if the problem isn’t showing itself.