Popularity Contest 1.2

Popularity Contest, a plugin for WordPress that will help you see which of your posts are most popular, was updated yesterday to version 1.2. The significant changes include:

Support for recording page activity
Added a [?] link (optional) to explain the ‘Popularity: 27%’ that is displayed
Added a hook for other plugins to conditionally change when the popularity % is displayed
Use defined variables for options so that they can be defined in other plugins – easier upgrading and no editing required.

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Update: A new version has been released (1.2.1) to fix some bugs in the 1.2 release.

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Posted on November 4th, 2006 | Category: WordPress Plugins | 11 Comments »

11 responses so far,

siong1987

November 5, 2006 at 12:48 am

This is the plugin that I have been finding for so long. I will apply it in my blog soon.

I will blog about it too. A very nice plugin.

listikal

November 6, 2006 at 6:43 am

It’s an excellent plugin, I had troubles getting the previous version working that well in Wordpress 2.0+. I’m sure Alex tested it this time around.

Kevin

November 6, 2006 at 11:47 pm

This plugin works slightly strange. I have been using it for about 2 weeks now. According to the plugin, my top story is the one that gets the most spam. Interesting since I am using Akismet.

JohnTP

November 7, 2006 at 3:25 am

Popularity Contest was one of my favorite WordPress Plugins when I had installed it for the first time months back. I used to monitor it daily to see which all of my posts are listed by it.

But now with time, the plugin does not seem to update as often as it used to before. Also the posts which gets the most spam comments and trackbacks are listed as the ‘Most Popular’ by the plugin

Known Issues
- When spam comments/pingbacks/trackbacks are deleted or marked as spam, their value is not always removed from the posts they were applied to. This is because the hooks in WP do not seem to fire consistently with sufficient data. Hopefully this will be fixed in a future release of WP.

Once in a while I reset Comments/Trackback/Pingback Counts to solve this problem.

If you have received comment spam or just need to recount your comments/trackbacks for any reason, you can use the ‘Reset Comments/Trackback/Pingback Counts’ button on the Options > Popularity page. If comment spam is an ongoing problem for you, you may want to set up a CRON job to run every night.

menghua

November 12, 2006 at 2:33 pm

This plugin is a bit different than the previous 1 i think. Does anyone knows how to stop the popularity ranking to show up in pages? I got the ranking even for my About page.. zzz