Comments on: Wordpress Hack : Most Popular Articles

By: Miranda Vasquez

Miranda Vasquez — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 00:17:58 +0000

Works like a charm and so easy to setup !!!!!!!! Thannnnxxxx Dave !!!!! I digg*ed your article.

one question - If I update my wp software will the hack get wrote over ?

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 01:26:47 +0000

Thanks. I’m glad you liked it. If anybody has any questions about the code and getting it to work in your Wordpress version feel free to ask.

A couple of notes:

In the newest Wordpress default theme, the actual file you will be editing for the second set of code is the file single.php which is where the code for single posts is kept.

To answer Miranda’s question, No, if you update your Wordpress software, this hack will still be in place because you’re editing the theme files and not the Wordpress core code.

By: recep

recep — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 06:17:14 +0000

it doesnt worked for me :S

By: Vaas

Vaas — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 18:37:57 +0000

This is a fabulous hack for WP. I know everybody loves to use WP for their blogs and getting another page to be indexed is always a plus.

It enhances the overall feel of a blog when you have a most popular page in an older blog!

great work

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 14:36:57 +0000

Thanks for the comment Vaas. I’m glad you liked the hack. A friend of mine pointed out that linking to your best or user favorite posts on the landing page of your blog does add to your internal pages getting indexed and/or getting PR passed to them.

By: Jakob

Jakob — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 15:06:50 +0000

This is exactly what I expected to find out after reading the title ress Hack : Most Popular Articles. Thanks for informative article

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By: moneymakerblogs

moneymakerblogs — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 07:48:07 +0000

Awesome post. Thanks for this. I have a few blogs on WP and can’t wait to try this hack on them.

By: codingpad

codingpad — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 07:54:52 +0000

I dugg this and left a comment :). It’s definitely a useful hack that I will try on my blogs that run WP. As a PHP beginner, this is good for me because I can look through the code and maybe learn something.

thanks much for sharing!!

By: Edgar

Edgar — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 20:03:33 +0000

Hello! Good Site! Thanks for the hack. I’ve already added it to my blog and it works great.

By: Eric

Eric — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 07:17:57 +0000

This is exactly what I expected to find out after reading the title ress Hack : Most Popular Articles. Thanks for informative article

By: Chilmark

Chilmark — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 00:40:07 +0000

You did a lot of work for this article. You have a nice quality blog here. Ill just make a comment so it bumps this great post higher up on your “most populars widget”. ;)

By: holli

holli — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 02:39:05 +0000

Golly. I feel so fortunate to have found this. Bonus! Thanks for the great work. Are you married? =)

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By: Colleen

Colleen — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 20:00:42 +0000

Thanks for this, I am having one little problem though, I am using permalinks but it’s not using what I set, I only have the year in my permalinks and this hack is grabbing the whole date in the url and causing the link to go to a 404 error page….

By: Colleen

Colleen — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 20:23:33 +0000

It could be because we’ve put the code in our header, not the sidebar, this is for my client, so I am trying to get it fixed as his site is live.

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 21:14:46 +0000

The code can be put in any section of the site as long as it’s within the tags. Can you post a link to the site so I can have a quick look at it? You might need to write a quick SQL statement to fix the old links to permalinks. If I can see the site, I can help you better.

Cheers,
Dave

By: One Eyed View

One Eyed View — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 05:00:50 +0000

Hi Dave,

This is a great hack but as I was getting ready to start editing my sidebar it occurred to me that this might not work if I’m using Widgets. I will experiment more tomorrow, but any thoughts on using this while using Widgets would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

One Eyed View

By: Jamster

Jamster — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 08:43:15 +0000

I am using widgets also and I put this hackon my blog and everything is working fine. No problems.

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Spyware List — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 02:47:02 +0000

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By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 02:25:02 +0000

Awesome, thanks! Do you know how I could exclude certain posts from the list?

Some articles that are more “newsy” may have generated a lot of comments when they were posted but they’ve lost their relevance in time.

By: arrehovavaive

arrehovavaive — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 17:23:54 +0000

At first I thought this was just another article saying the same old things but it was interesting enough for me to read through the whole article and try to apply it to my blog. I wanted to say “Thank You” for such helpful articles.

By: Terri

Terri — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 09:04:28 +0000

It worked, thank you. Just what I was looking for. I had to change the URL to get rid of the date part in my links, but it was sooo easy! Kudos and thanks again.

By: pass over

pass over — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 16:28:01 +0000

nice hack :)

By: Douglas - Murfreesboro SEO

Douglas - Murfreesboro SEO — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 14:54:58 +0000

Thanks for this post, I do not currently use wordpress as I believe it is written in PHP which I do not know, I am a ASP/SQL person so thats why I use, I do though hope to get some time to learn PHP. Dave why do you call them hacks VS. Mods? Thanks!