List Wordpress posts with number of views

September 2, 2011 12:32 PM

Is there an easy way to create a single page list that will show how many views each of the posts on my Wordpress blog has had? It doesn't have to look nice for publication. I just want to identify my least popular posts so I can either re-write or delete them.
posted by 14580 to Computers & Internet (4 answers total)

Best answer: I don't think that is going to happen with Wordpress, unless there is some sort of page view analysis extension. However, sorting by page views should be very easy in whatever statistical analysis package is on your web server, Google Analytics if you have been using it.
posted by COD at 12:46 PM on September 2, 2011

Best answer: Instal WP-Postviews plugin.

Then create a new page template in your theme with the following code.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-postviews/faq/
posted by WizKid at 1:35 PM on September 2, 2011

If you're already using the Wordpress.com Stats plugin, there's the (strangely third-party) WordPress.com Popular Posts plugin, which will just feed from the data you already have.

Sidenote: The plugin above does its own data collection, which is going to hammer your database and possibly make your host unhappy if you get a significant amount of traffic. ("Significant" has too many factors behind it and will have to be worked out between you and your host.)
posted by Su at 2:07 PM on September 2, 2011

Oh, wait. You actually want the other end of the list, don't you? I guess you could try cranking up the number of items to return, but there might be a cutoff in place.
posted by Su at 2:09 PM on September 2, 2011