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  tabehodai · Member · Jan 6, 2011 at 5:07 pm

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  Hi!

  Is there a way to show a list of frequently read posts in the sidebar?

  I tried the ‘top posts’ widget but it could only show top posts within 48hours(?) and not over the entire time of the blog.

  Thanks.

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  jameswilliam234 · Member · Jan 6, 2011 at 6:19 pm

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  I think its more sensible to show top posts within last 48 hours rather than over entire time of blog.
  In my experience, most interesting posts ever, don’t change regularly, I can even suggest to use static links instead of using a widget to do this.
  But I agree that it would be nice if the user could change the time period of the widget.

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  timethief · Member · Jan 6, 2011 at 6:26 pm

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  @tabehodai and irb
  All data displayed by widgets is cached. This is why there is a time delay. Reference link > http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/top-posts-widget/

  @irb
  If you want to make your suggestion re: the timeframe directly to Staff please use this link > http://en.support.wordpress.com/contact/

  @tabehodai
  If you wish you can create a static page and manually add the Popular Post to it as I have done on my blog. http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/#writing-a-new-page

  Alternatively you can use a text widget to manually create such a list and display it in your sidebar. http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/text-widget/

  In either case you will have to do manual updating as the data will not autoupdate.

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  tabehodai · Member · Jan 7, 2011 at 3:59 pm

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  timethief and irb,

  thanks so much for your help. I’m still new to the technicalities and your advice is highly valued.

  cheers!

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  timethief · Member · Jan 7, 2011 at 7:34 pm

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  You’re welcome and happy blogging. :)