I’ve released version 1.1 of my Popularity Contest plugin1 for WordPress.
There is only one real change in this version, but it’s a handy one. You can now recount your comments and trackbacks at the push of a button (or load of a URL). This is handy for resetting popularity values if you’ve gotten comment or trackback spam, or if you’ve decided to wholesale axe some comments for whatever reason.
Unfortunately, this is necessary in WP 1.5.x because the plugin hooks don’t pass along the needed information for me to do these updates in the background. I’m guessing this will likely be resolved in WP 1.6 and since my code is already in place to work with the data when it is available, it should hopefully just start working at some point and render this “recount” button useless.
The README is updated with the instructions on how to use the new feature.
Please use this support thread to report any problems or ask questions.
- Should I call it my “award winning” plugin?
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Popularity: 11% [?]
Geof F. Morris adds this Comment:
Hey Alex: You need to change the software page to reflect the rev. roll.
July 29th, 2005 at 6:50 pm
Alex adds this Comment:
Thanks!
July 29th, 2005 at 7:13 pm
Popularity Contest for Pages » Semicolon adds this Pingback:
[…] I’ve been enjoying Alex King’s excellent Popularity Contest plugin for several weeks now. It’s fascinating to see which posts are being viewed, commented, tracked and pinged, all through the one interface. After using it for a while, I thought of a useful way to extend it and also found and fixed a wee problem. Perhaps these changes will make their way into the next version of Alex’s plugin, but till then you can always download my version from here. […]
September 21st, 2005 at 6:22 pm
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Google Sitemap Generator 3 Beta
I’m pleased to announce a new beta version of my Google Sitemap Generator for Wordpress. This new version introduces a lot of new features and most of them are requested by users.
Note that this is still a beta version so please comment or mail…
January 7th, 2006 at 10:10 am
Asuan adds this Comment:
With its permission I have allowed myself to translate to the Spanish his plugin Popularity.
I hope that it does not seem to him bad.
If it wishes to it I have left it in this connection of my Web page compressed in a ZIP.
http://www.asuan-pel[...]ntest-ES.zip
Thx for your excellent plugin.
A greeting.
March 11th, 2006 at 11:32 am
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WordPress Archive Promotion
The nature of blog is sort according to latest posts. Your good written posts will be hidden in the blog archives. ME Strauss of Successful Blog suggested a few points to promote blog archive. I show you how to promote your WordPress archive with help…
March 15th, 2006 at 3:38 am
Lee.org adds this Trackback:
Installed Popularity Contest
Installed Alex King’s Popularity Contest plugin. It keeps excellent stats for the admin on how popular each blog post is. It also shows users a list of the most popular posts by category, month, etc… in the sidebar.
I found this plugin vi…
March 29th, 2006 at 12:39 pm
Recreational Reading » Blog Archive » What does “popularity” mean? adds this Pingback:
[…] Second, I have installed the Popularity Contest plugin by Alix King. Simply put, it tracks the number of reads and allows articles to be ranked against each other. The percentages are values relative to the ‘most popular’ article on the site. In order to make these things work together, I had to change the plugin similar to Semicolon’s modified version. […]
April 9th, 2006 at 9:39 am
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[…] Added support to use the Popularity Contest plugin by Alex King to calculate post priority If you are already using the Popularity Contest plugin, this will be the best way to determine the priority of the posts. Uses to new priority API noted above. […]
May 3rd, 2006 at 7:44 pm
Popularitätsauswertung (Plugin) - bueltge.de [by:ltge.de] adds this Pingback:
[…] Alex King hat schon vor einiger Zeit das Plugin Popularity Contest vorgestellt. Mit diesem Plugin kann der geneigte WordPress-User eine statistische Auswertung für seine beiträge bekommen, die sich aufgrund von Besuchen, Trackbacks und Pingbacks berechnet. Wer dieses Plugin nutzen möchte und dabei eine deutsche Version möchte, der findet diese jetzt hier. Alex hatte die Version 1.1 als letztes Release gebracht und ich habe fehlende Texte mit übernommen, so dass ich eine saubere .pot erstellen konnte und somit kann das Plugin für jede Sprache oder gewünschten Dialekt erweitert werden. Alle notwendigen Dateien liegen im Paket. […]
September 7th, 2006 at 4:19 am
Frank adds this Comment:
Hy Alex,
i have write a .pot for your plugin and a german language file. I have a new version write of your plugin. In this v 1.2 are all words for the potfile konfigurable.
I hope you enjoy this.
Link: http://www.bueltge.d[...]-plugin/235/
The .pot-File is also in the package zip.
thx and best regards.
Frank
September 7th, 2006 at 4:33 am
BassMach adds this Comment:
Best plugin! ThenX
September 11th, 2006 at 4:19 pm
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[…] Added support to use the Popularity Contest plugin by Alex King to calculate post priority If you are already using the Popularity Contest plugin, this will be the best way to determine the priority of the posts. Uses to new priority API noted above. […]
September 16th, 2006 at 7:35 am
Munki adds this Comment:
Hello, I have a problem. Your plugin seems to ignore registered users when they view a post. I think it is because, your plugin won’t record visits by admins & writers which is cool, but I have a lot of people on my website that are registered and I would like your plugin to count those views. Is there a way to make your plugin count posts from all viewers..even registered users? If there is a way to exclude individual registered users, would be great, but if its too difficult just a way to enable all viewers to be counted for views would be great! Thanks any tips appreciated…love your plugin.
September 18th, 2006 at 11:33 am
wujimon » Tools to Find Related Topics adds this Pingback:
[…] The Popular Posts Sidebar Widget on my mainpage is powered by Alex King’s Popularity Contest Plugin. Basically, this plugin determines the popularity of a post by the number of page views, comments, pingbacks, etc and lists the Top 10 Popular Posts. […]
October 7th, 2006 at 11:38 am
A Sitemap For You (And Them) » Going The Wong Way adds this Pingback:
[…] I just installed the Popularity Contest plugin to see if I could use that in order to calculate how to order the […]
June 12th, 2007 at 10:33 am