How can I get the Top posts widget to show more than 2 stories?

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  indierevolver · Member · Oct 18, 2014 at 12:31 pm

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  I have it set to show the top ten stories but for some reason it only displays 2. Does anyone know how I can correct this?

  Thanks in advance!

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  honeysilvas · Member · Oct 19, 2014 at 9:55 pm

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  Hi,

  The top posts widget shows your most popular posts from the last 48 hours depending on views or likes. If you only have 2 posts that have been viewed or liked, these are the only ones that will show.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/top-posts-widget/

  Maybe you can try the Recent Posts widget
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/recent-posts-widget/
  or one of the other widgets instead:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/category/widgets-sidebars/

  Hope that helps!

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  indierevolver · Member · Oct 19, 2014 at 10:12 pm

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  It’s definitely not that those were the only two posts viewed. I’ve had over 25 thousand hits in the last 48 hours from MANY different posts. I can see the posts listed when I’m looking at site stats in the dashboard but they aren’t appearing in the widget.

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  honeysilvas · Member · Oct 19, 2014 at 10:38 pm

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  In the Top Posts and Pages widget, what is your current setting for “Order Top Posts & Pages by”? If it’s set to “Likes”, change it to “Views”. If it’s set to “Views”, change it to “Likes”.