Title: Popular This Week
Author: chrisnorthwood
Published: <strong>May 16, 2009</strong>
Last modified: May 16, 2009

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This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**.
It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

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# Popular This Week

 By [chrisnorthwood](https://profiles.wordpress.org/chrisnorthwood/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/popular-this-week.1.0.zip)

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 *  [Installation](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/popular-this-week/#installation)
 * [Development](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/popular-this-week/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/popular-this-week/)

## Description

Popular This Week is a plugin similar to Popularity Contest, but only records hits
that happened in the last week. It then shows the most popular posts or pages in
the last week as widget you can use in your theme.

It’s useful for high volume, high traffic sites where posts age quite quickly, and
you do not necessarily want to direct your users to old content, but what people
are reading right now. An example of the widget being used is here: http://www.nouse.
co.uk/

## Installation

Set up the plugin as per usual and it’ll appear as a widget to be configured, where
you can configure the amount of posts displayed.

There is one additional change. In your theme, open the `single.php` file and add`
<?php if (function_exists('ptw_countview')) ptw_countview(); ?>` inside the loop.
If you want your post views to count when seen elsewhere (not just on their own),
insert that code everywhere else too.

## FAQ

  Why is it so complex to set up?

Because I’m a complex guy. In the future I’ll probably improve it, but for
 the 
moment you’ll have to deal with it.

  No hits are being recorded

Check you’ve added the `ptw_countview()` somewhere in your theme.

## Reviews

There are no reviews for this plugin.

## Contributors & Developers

“Popular This Week” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ chrisnorthwood ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/chrisnorthwood/)

[Translate “Popular This Week” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/popular-this-week)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/popular-this-week/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/popular-this-week/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/popular-this-week/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/popular-this-week/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Meta

 *  Version **1.0**
 *  Last updated **17 years ago**
 *  Active installations **10+**
 *  WordPress version ** 2.7 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **2.7.1**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/popular-this-week/)
 * Tags
 * [popular](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/popular/)[post](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/post/)
   [statistics](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/statistics/)[tracking](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/tracking/)
   [widget](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/widget/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/popular-this-week/advanced/)

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## Contributors

 *   [ chrisnorthwood ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/chrisnorthwood/)

## Support

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 [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/popular-this-week/)