Comments on: WP Plugin: Turning ‘Popularity Contest’ into a Widget

By: Gary R. Hess

Gary R. Hess — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 17:26:01 +0000

Yeah it does that sometimes, not exactly sure on the issue just yet.

By: Rudy

Rudy — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 15:40:41 +0000

Oops, I didn’t mean to post so many times. It looked like the reply within a reply plugin was experiencing a problem. First the error said, “I already said that”, and then the 2nd error was a blank page. But both posts above made it.

Hmm!

By: Rudy

Rudy — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 15:36:25 +0000

Thanks for your insight, Gary. I guess I’ll have to make do with whatever we have so far.

By: Rudy

Rudy — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 15:34:37 +0000

Thanks for your insight, Gary.

By: Gary R. Hess

Gary R. Hess — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 23:49:46 +0000

It is absolutely possible, but not without re-writing some of the original code. As far as I can tell the Popularity Contest Options page within the admin section has its own set of functions only available from within that specific page–meaning it is not possible to use the 60 or 90 days within the visible blog area of your readers.

I have been working on a separate solution by grabbing the DB from a new file and then displaying the list from there, but that could get time consuming and would probably be easier to just rewrite the original script.

I wish there was an easier solution, but with the way the point system is setup it really can’t get there.

I’m not really a fan of how WordPress connects the plugins anyhow, hopefully Alex can give a simpler solution to the problem.

By: Rudy

Rudy — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 19:31:01 +0000

Good info.

I’ve emailed Alex about getting AKPC to do popular post for the past 60 or 90 days (or any arbitrary # of days). No response yet. Do you know if that’s possible?