Aug 06 2008

Hardcoding Firestats 5 Most Popular Posts into your Sidebar

Published by firefly at 4:52 pm under Wordpress and tagged: , , ,

To display your 5 most popular posts, simply copy and paste this code into your sidebar.php of your chosen theme. Make sure Firestats is enabled in your plug-in section.

This is mainly for hardcoding themes into Wordpress MU, since there is an existing widget that does the same job in 5 seconds flat.

<?php if ( function_exists(’fs_get_firestats_path’) )
{
echo ‘<li>’;
echo ‘<h2>5 Most Popular Posts</h2>’;
 
$FS_PATH = fs_get_firestats_path();
require_once($FS_PATH.’/php/html-utils.php’);
$days_ago = 30;
$num_to_show = ‘5′;
$generator =  create_function(”,”return fs_get_popular_pages_tree($num_to_show, $days_ago, FS_URL_TYPE_POST,false, null);”);
echo fs_get_cached_data(’cached_firestats_popular_pages’, $generator, 3600);
}
?>
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3 Responses to “Hardcoding Firestats 5 Most Popular Posts into your Sidebar”

  1.   # My Experience in Getting Hosed by the Open Source Community | Firefly in Japanon 06 Aug 2008 at 10:00 pm

    [...] Firestats.  Omry, the creator of Firestats patiently helped me hand-code the fancy widget on the right saying “5 Most Popular Posts”.  It references the excellent plug-in Firestats, which works perfectly with Wordpress MU.  The code to do this is here. [...]

  2.   # j UNITED STATESon 13 Aug 2008 at 3:48 am

    in my opinion, the sidebar has a bit too much in it. 2 columns is one to many, especially with all the empty space you already have on each side.

  3.   # firefly JAPANon 13 Aug 2008 at 10:25 am

    I can see how it would look a bit much, but it’s for a reason. The left sidebar is hardcoded so every blog has the same feeds/links, and so bloggers can see a community grow from their posts.

    The right right column is a mix between hardcoded and dynamic, so savvy Japan bloggers can customise their sidebar.

    Thanks for the comment !

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