Comments on: W-Popularity Plug-In

By: PzheL

PzheL — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 14:30:00 +0000

Hi, I realised there is a glitch in the widget. Whenever I switch position to the “most popular” widget, the title disappears. Kindly look into this matter. Thanks.

By: PzheL

PzheL — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 14:26:00 +0000

Great plugin, Thanks!

By: Achuna

Achuna — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 14:30:00 +0000

Kindly tell me how to I create the field for the last line:
KEY `post_id` (`post_id`)

Please help

By: Brandon

Brandon — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 21:46:00 +0000

I cannot seem to create the tables. I use webmin, can anyone help?

By: shuron

shuron — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 15:11:00 +0000

Uppps Damm… Corrected now

Disclaimer: This Plugin is copmatible with any orientation. But I have test it as hetero only

You are free to send me other test reports

By: mike hehir

mike hehir — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 15:00:00 +0000

“Thankyou gays” – great typo (:
I didn’t realise this plugin was just for gays. I think I will exercise my equal rights as a heterosexual and use this plugin….

Mike

By: shuron

shuron — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 09:25:00 +0000

Thank you guys for helping each other. Unfortunately, I don’t have time for Worpdress due personal issues.

But maybe in some week i will release new version which will possibly fix all the bugs…

Thank you for you patience.

By: Prabal

Prabal — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 03:44:00 +0000

For those who are getting a fatal error, it is due to the tables not getting created when the plugin is activated. To make it work, please run the following sql in your database:

====SQL====
CREATE TABLE `wp_ak_popularity` (
`post_id` int(11) NOT NULL,
`total` int(11) NOT NULL,
`feed_views` int(11) NOT NULL,
`home_views` int(11) NOT NULL,
`archive_views` int(11) NOT NULL,
`category_views` int(11) NOT NULL,
`single_views` int(11) NOT NULL,
`comments` int(11) NOT NULL,
`pingbacks` int(11) NOT NULL,
`trackbacks` int(11) NOT NULL,
`last_modified` datetime NOT NULL,
KEY `post_id` (`post_id`)
) ;

CREATE TABLE `wp_ak_popularity_options` (
`option_name` varchar(50) NOT NULL,
`option_value` varchar(50) NOT NULL
) ;
====END====

Replace the wp_ in the table names with the prefix your wordpress installation tables have.

By: shuron

shuron — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 08:58:00 +0000

Latest version?

By: Der.Werner

Der.Werner — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 06:34:00 +0000

I can’t activate your plugin:

wp_ak_popularity_options’ doesn’t exist on line: 116

What can I do?

By: Madhuram

Madhuram — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 00:28:00 +0000

I downloaded your latest 0.9.3 version, it still says “Fatal Error” upon activation.

How do I fix this? Please advise.

Thanks.

By: Peter

Peter — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 22:30:00 +0000

Hi, thank you for this great wp plugin, i have a question. How can i include the lists of popular posts manually (not as a widget). Something like this? . I’m not a php crack, so i don’t know the solution. Thank you for your help.

By: shuron

shuron — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 22:15:00 +0000

Hi Everyone, I’ve updated the W-Popularity Contest Plugin. So you should not have any problems with the Worpdress version above 2.5.

You can download the new version of wPopularity 0.9.3 here:
http://alexander.holbreich.org/downloads/

By: shuron

shuron — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 18:28:00 +0000

Could you please be more specific?

WP Version
POHP Version
and if possible error log.

I’ll to borrow some time and will review the plugin shortly.
I promise

By: Scot Herrick

Scot Herrick — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 18:08:00 +0000

This plugin doesn’t work for 2.5.x — it causes a fatal error on activation.

Any plans to fix? I really like the plugin.

Thanks…

By: shuron

shuron — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 14:58:00 +0000

Hi, sorry for letting you waiting so long for my answer.

I’m surprised about your performance problems with the SQL Server. Do you use MySQL? in which version?

I have no problems with performance so far, whether with W-Popularity or with the popularity contest I used before.

At the moment W-Popularity uses the same DB Queries as the Plugin form Alex King. Will be changed in the future.

Was this helpful?

By: DG

DG — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 08:54:00 +0000

Hi shuron,

For quite long, I’m facing lots of problems with my blog, that’s because of web & sql server spike generated from my blog.

99.99% time, my host reported, the main cause of SQL spike “WP-Postvies” from GamerZ.

I’ve recently shifted my blog to VPS server, but it’s not stabilized yet, becasue of the spikes.

I’m currently going to remove WP-Postview, however, I still want to have a functionality to show “Popular Posts”.

Can you advice about your plugin, will it be able to retain WP-Postview stat, and about SQL queries load?

Thanks

DG…

By: der

der — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 18:33:00 +0000

Ah, spoke too soon
“Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error.”

By: thal

thal — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 18:30:00 +0000

I’ll give it a try. I was trying popularity from Alex but it didn’t work with 2.5 (even with all the ../ hacks). Then I got a copy of Boakes MostWanted and it works at least, but I’d like to see what yours can do.
Thanks

By: Ivan Blinkov

Ivan Blinkov — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 14:49:00 +0000

Thank you for the detailed answer, maybe I’ll try this one too soon