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Wordpress Hack #5: 10 Ways to Improve Navigation

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7. How to Display the Most Viewed Posts in Wordpress

I talked about this once before, I use the Lester Chan plugin WP-PostViews to display my 10 most viewed posts (with counts) in the sidebar, and also to display my top 25 posts on my Archived Posts Sitemap. This is the same plugin I use to display the number of views next to the heading title on each post, and page within this site. Under the Usage Tab of WP-PostViews you’ll find some code for “most viewed posts” as well as “most viewed posts for a category” which is very handy. The nice thing about this plugin as well is that when you download it, you get two versions. Once that you can place the code wherever you want to see post counts, and another which is a widget you can just drag and configure in your sidebar. Sometimes I wish all plugins had a “widget”.

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This entry was posted on April 18th in blog setup, blogging, wordpress.

12 Responses to “Wordpress Hack #5: 10 Ways to Improve Navigation”

Submarine Has the following to say...
April 18th, 2008 at 1:45 pm
Thank you very much ! I’m glad you appreciate the Category Icons plugin.
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Vevin Has the following to say...
April 19th, 2008 at 4:20 am
You !!Rock I Am in search of these Post ..
Thannks for putting such a nice hack Here

Thanks
Vevin.Com

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Acupuncture Has the following to say...
April 19th, 2008 at 9:39 am
Very nice demonstration of breaking a post up into multiple pages.

This is something I love about wordpress also.
I post ebooks (old non-copyright books) and breaking them up into chapters, gives a lot of pages. Adding a few keyword links back to your home page or a page you want to push in the ranks is a great trick. You provide some useful content that is unique and add some link love back to your other pages.

I usually just make a “table of contents” and paste it in the beginning of the first page or on each page. I’ve noticed google likes this. Google wouldn’t really crawl the next pages that much until I started adding this. The plugin you suggest makes it quicker and adds more functions. I’ve downloaded it and will have to play

I am noticing that your title tag for each of the 11 pages for this post are all the same, does the plugin allow you to change that for each page? I know we can change the heading titles, but didn’t see anything about the meta tag. . . that would be another big bonus.

thx,
Charles
PS. . .
I’ve moded one of my sites, thus the earlier comments here go to a non-site now….
If you like…if easy, you can remove my old email and name (Charles linked to whateveryoneneedstoknow). Can’t keep up with all the sites.
Remkus Has the following to say...
April 19th, 2008 at 10:55 am
I did you one short with my last comment. I found a hack I was searching for, but it seems there is quite a little bit more to be found here… so I had to say: awesome lists! I just subscribed to I’ll back for more
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Hock Has the following to say...
April 19th, 2008 at 1:32 pm
You didn’t mention the sitemap plugin by Dagon Design. I think it makes it really easy to find all your posts sorted out by category.

I wrote about it and you can see it in action on my blog.

http://www.marketing-tools-review.com/blog/2007/06/favorite-wordpress-plugin-of-the-day-3-sitemap-generator/
admin Has the following to say...
April 19th, 2008 at 2:41 pm
Thanks for the comment, Hock. I didn’t mention that plugin because I don’t think it’s very good, and also because it doesn’t belong on this hack about navigation. That’s more of an archive page, which was Wordpress Hack #2.
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Acupuncture Has the following to say...
April 21st, 2008 at 11:23 am
Hock, thanks for the idea.

I checked out dagon design’s sitemap generator after seeing your comment here.

It works well for a noob like me.

I guess JT has two of us that like it

I just posted on JT’s other article about 404 pages. I’m using the sitemap generator on that page also. It gives everything for the lost visitor to find their way again.

Thanks for the suggestion.
Charles

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John Havlik Has the following to say...
May 1st, 2008 at 6:00 pm
Just a heads up Breadcrumb Navigation XT, the page you linked to, is obsolete as of January, 2008. Breadcrumb NavXT replaced it. My server sometimes crashes but you shouldn’t be seeing HTTP 500 messages. It’s probably safest to link to the wordpress.org plugin directory page for it, located at http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/breadcrumb-navxt/ since that’s where I’m actually hosting it now.
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Aahz Has the following to say...
August 17th, 2008 at 8:16 pm
Story of my life…

I just spent 45 minutes figuring out how to build breadcrumbs and hardcoding them into my template after using them here for the last few days. And NOW I finally get to the article with the plugin! ARGH!! I guess I shoulda done a search before delving in.

On the other hand, I’m finally starting to understand how PHP works… a little.

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David Has the following to say...
August 31st, 2008 at 12:08 pm
Cheers! I’ve been looking for a “Most Viewed” type widget plugin for WP for some time now!

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