There no doubt that Alex King’s Popularity Contest plugin is, excuse the pun, one WordPress’s most popular plugin ever. But Alex seems to be a bit to busy to maintain the plugin (?2007 being the last update) and there is a plethora of users out there asking about patches, fixes, new version etc.
I’m not sure when exactly the plugin stopped working and which ‘branch’ versions are the best, but last week I came across this version and it’s working great on one of my WP 2.7 installs so I’m including it here for those that are struggling to find a version that works.
Popularity Contest for WP 2.7 (2102) - 12.92 KB
Hey Dyason, you saved me with this plugin version! Thank you a ton! I tried all version that I could find and none of them worked with WP 2.7 But this version works great! Thank you again!
Dyason, you’ve just made my day! I’ve been getting ‘fatal error’. Finally it works on my new site. Thanks!
Oh man this is fantastic! Again like Gennice I tried everything suggested to fix it without any luck, you have indeed saved a young man’s life, KUDOS!
Download doesn’t seem to be working anymore
Thanx for the plugin
Always a pleasure!
Plugin is not working. please help
Table ‘wpgame.wp_ak_popularity_options’ doesn’t exist on line: 124
What should i do?
Sory, it’s working just fine. I can resolve it myself.
Thanks a lot Dyason Hat. Good luck for you.
thx u so much…
I decided not to use this plugin as it doesn’t work with SuperCache. This one does:
http://ajaydsouza.com/wordpress/plugins/top-10/
Also, there is another plugin that seems popular but might have stopped development:
http://www.im-web-gefunden.de/wordpress-plugins/role-manager/
[...] Popularity Contest (updated version for WP 2.7) – Your Most Popular Posts will appear at the top of the right sidebar in the tabbed navigation box as seen on this site. [...]
[...] Popularity Contest (updated version for WP 2.7) – Your Most Popular Posts will appear at the top of the right sidebar in the tabbed navigation box as seen on this site. [...]
Thank you veeeeery much dude. You’ve just saved my blog on wordpress upgrade. Good job, thanks again.
it doesnt seem to work with super cache, sad that Alex King stopped to support and develop it further, anyway, Top 10 posts plugin works fine
[...] Popularity Contest (updated version for WP 2.7) – Your Most Popular Posts will appear at the top of the right sidebar in the tabbed navigation box as seen on this site. [...]
A great help! I was using an older version (1.2.1) that more of less worked for WP 2.7 except for the most_popular_in_cat() function.
Thanks.
[...] Popularity Contest (Updated for WP 2.7) – Your Most Popular Posts will appear at the top of the right sidebar in the tabbed navigation box as seen on this site. [...]
thanx dude..!!
This got it working, thanks. Looks like the directory locators just got a bit mixed up. Good work!
[...] You can see an example of this plugin at the top of this blog. Go here to download it. [...]
[...] put up a sidebar widget listing the most popular posts on your site. You can use a plugin like Popularity Contest or Popular Posts to generate it based on view count, or just write the list yourself. This is [...]
Is there someone who knows why it is giving me the option to update right after the install to a lower version of the plugin?