The plugin allows you to select the number of links to show, control how they are shown and include a link to the third party websites (with or without nofollow links) as a thank you for linking to your articles.
I wrote the plugin for my new theme and use it here on thisismyurl as part of the new magazine style format.
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While I was working on my new theme for thisismyurl.com I came across the need to publish a series of popular posts in the side bar and so I put together a simple plugin for WordPress. The tool works like most WordPress theme calls and features:
To use the plugin, install it to your WordPress website and edit your theme files by placing the following code:
General results
Without passing any parameters, the plugin will return ten results or fewer depending on how many posts you have.
[source lang="php"]<?php popularPosts();?>[/source]
Specific number of results
If you would like to return a specific number of results as your maximum:
[source lang="php"]<?php popularPosts(‘count=10′);?>[/source]
Altering the before and after values
By default the plugin wraps your code in list item (
Echo vs. Return
Finally, if you’d like to copy the results into a variable you can return the results as follows:
[source lang="php"]<?php popularPosts(‘echo=false’);?> [/source]
Minimum Comments
To ensure you only return truly popular articles, you can limit the returned posts to posts with a minimum number of comments
[source lang="php"]<?php popularPosts(‘comments=10′);?> [/source]
Support forums are now online! If you have any questions, please visit http://forums.thisismyurl.com.
