WPMU- Top Posts Plugin

I’ve hacked together a prototype of a Top Posts plugin for WordPressMU.

The concept is to create a global table that stores the blog_id, post_id, and time for each hit to a post/page, and then allows you to get list of the posts with the most hits. This is an early early version.

You can download it here.

Installation:

Put this php file in your ‘wp-content/mu-plugins’ directory. Sit back and enjoy.

Usage:

The simple version would be to call:

<?php zap_top_posts_html(); ?>

This will return a <ul>…</ul> block of html.

But you can also use this much like you would use get_posts() in any template. For example, the following should also work…

<ul>
 <?php
 $myposts = zap_get_top_posts();
 foreach($myposts as $post) :
 ?>
    <li><a href="<?php echo $post->guid; ?>">
	<?php the_title(); ?></a>
	[<?php zap_the_post_hits(); ?>]</li>
 <?php endforeach; ?>
</ul>

Anyway, this is just a prototype. I haven’t really done that much testing. I have no idea how well it will perform in general. I know there are a couple bugs in there. As I fine tune this, I will post additional updates.

Known issue: You can’t use the get_permalink() and the_permalink() tags becuase they depend on other global variables that are not properly set up with these functions. If you want the link to the post use $post->guid.