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skytoheaven
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 Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2005 3:44 pm Post subject: limiting number of popular posts |
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How do I limit the number of popular posts?
I don't know very much code, and I couldn't find the answer anywhere.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Right now, I have the following code:
| Code: | {popularposts}
{if $pposts != ''}
<ul><li id="mostpopularessays">Most Popular Essays
<ul>
{foreach from=$pposts key=key item=hits}
<li><a href="{$hits.url}" title="{$hits.title}">{$hits.title|truncate:25:"..."}</a>: {$key}</li>
{/foreach}
</ul>
</li></ul>
{/if} |
My site is at [url]skytoheaven.blogsome.com[/url]
Thanks a lot for any help! |
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Shana
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Location: Lincolnshire, UK
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| Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2005 9:21 pm Post subject: |
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Although I don't use the Popular posts code, this is the code for last posts and maybe that will apply to Popular posts as well.
| Code: | {lastposts posts='6'}
{if $lastposts != ''}
<h2>Most Recent Posts</h2>
<ul>
{foreach from=$lastposts key=id item=title}
<li><a href="{get_permalink id=$id}" title="{$title}">{$title|truncate:25:"..."}</a></li>
{/foreach}
</ul>
</li></ul>
{/if} |
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schinckel
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| Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2005 1:21 am Post subject: |
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The posts argument doesn't work: I'll have to wait until I get home before I check out what the argument needs to be called.
(Or, you could try downloading the WP-Mu source, and find it for yourself, if you know how to read PHP a little)
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skytoheaven
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| Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2005 6:27 am Post subject: |
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Thanks Shana, but I did try the posts='6' before, but it didn't work. Thanks for trying to help though!
Schinckel - I don't know any PHP  . I would really appreciate it if you could find the argument, when you have the time.
By the way, even if you don't find the answer, I still also want to say "Thank You." It's amazing that you help out so many people in these forums - especially if you aren't really getting paid, which is what I assume. You & zheaton are doing a great job - Best of luck to you both!
yours sincerely,
evan
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schinckel
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Location: Adelaide, Australia
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| Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2005 9:11 am Post subject: |
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I wasn't able to figure out whether it will in fact take any arguments. I don't think it does, but I've included the source in case anyone else is able to find a possible argument:
| Code: | /*
* Smarty plugin
* -------------------------------------------------------------
* File: function.popularposts.php
* Type: function
* Name: popularposts
* Purpose: outputs an image from the images/ directory.
* -------------------------------------------------------------
*/
function getlinks( $wpblog )
{
global $wpdb, $site;
$s = strlen( $site );
$sql = "SELECT visitURL, count( * ) AS c, substring_index( substring_index(
visitURL, '/', ".($s+1)." ), '/', -1 ) as postID
FROM referer_visitLog
WHERE blogID = '".$wpblog."'
AND visitURL NOT LIKE '%/archives/%'
AND visitURL LIKE '%/'
GROUP BY blogID, visitURL
ORDER BY c DESC
LIMIT 0,30";
$results = $wpdb->get_results($sql);
if( $results )
{
reset( $results );
while( list( $key, $t ) = each( $results ) )
{
if( substr( $t->visitURL, -9 ) == 'index.php' )
$t->visitURL = substr( $t->visitURL, 0, -9 );
$hits[ $t->visitURL ] += $t->c;
}
arsort( $hits );
$hits = array_flip( $hits );
reset( $hits );
while( list( $key, $val ) = each( $hits ) )
{
if( substr( $val, -1 ) == '/' )
{
$post_name = substr( $val, 0, -1 );
$post_name = substr( $post_name, strrpos( $post_name, '/' ) + 1
);
$sql = "SELECT post_title
FROM ".$wpdb->posts."
WHERE post_name = '".$post_name."'";
$results = $wpdb->get_results($sql);
if( $results )
{
$links[ $key ] = array( "url" => $val, "title" => stripslash
es( $results[0]->post_title ) );
}
}
}
}
else
{
$links = false;
}
return $links;
}
function smarty_function_popularposts($params, &$smarty)
{
global $wpblog, $site;
extract( $params );
if( @include_once( "Cache/Function.php" ) )
{
$cache = new Cache_Function( 'file', array('cache_dir' => "/var/tmp/cach
e/", 'filename_prefix' => 'popularposts_cache_' ), 3600 );
$links = $cache->call( "getlinks", $wpblog );
}
else
{
$links = getlinks( $wpblog, $site );
}
$smarty->assign( "pposts", $links );
}
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schinckel
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| Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2005 10:25 am Post subject: |
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Actually, it may be possible to use Smarty to iterate only over a certain number of items in an Array.
I'm playing around with {section} instead of {foreach}, but since this array seems to use the number of hits as the key, it's turning out to be difficult.
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schinckel
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| Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2005 10:39 am Post subject: |
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Bingo!
| Code: | {popularposts}
{if $pposts != ''}
<h2>Most Popular Posts</h2>
<ul>{counter assign=pp print=0}
{foreach from=$pposts key=key item=hits}
{counter}
{if $pp <= 6}
<li><a href="{$hits.url}" title="{$hits.title}">{$hits.title|truncate:25:"..."}</a>: {$key}</li>
{/if}
{/foreach}
</ul>
{/if} |
Note that the {if $pp <= 6} clause will cause 5 post links to appear.
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ioreyes
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| Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2005 9:14 am Post subject: couldn't get it to work |
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Hi --
I've been tweaking the "dots" template by Alex King and have made some cosmetic changes to it here: http://issyreyes.blogsome.com. I'm a newbie at this so it took me hours and hours and still more hours to get all those changes in there. 
I haven't moved from LJ into blogsome yet because I'd like to try out WP, get used to it, and get the whole everything set up before I move--that's why all my posts are test posts.
Anyway, how do I apply the code above to my template? I'd like to limit the number of popular posts, too.
Oh and how do I put links on the top of my page?
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