“Top Posts are calculated from 24-48 hours of stats” – why?
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Hi, I don’t get this one, you have this nice feature in the dashboard, to see Top Posts of alltime, but the widget “calculates” (whatever that means) a vague time-zone of 24-48 hours. I think 99% of the bloggers who want to use this widget, expect alltime-stats and not some “What’s hot” listing. This may work just fine for large blogs with hundreds of visitors, for the rest it’s pretty useless :-(
Maybe you could have a widget called “blog stats”, where the blogger can choose, which of the data already present in his dashboard is shown to the visitors. No need for calculations whatsoever :P
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The thing is I have 3 posts, that I wrote over 2 years ago that went through a 3 month period were they seemed to have been searched for by the entire world, and are still #1 2 and 3 in my top posts, and probably will be for a long time. That means that if it were “all time” those 3 posts may be on the top of my “top posts” widget for a very long time.
A blog I manage has 5 posts (out of 2000) that were picked up big on Digg and other places, and again would be on the “top posts” widget for a very long time.
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Of course your Dashboard has the top posts of all time listed; since those rarely change, you can just put it in a text widget.
Besides, as a blogger who gets thousands of hits a day, I can tell you that I’d RATHER (FAR RATHER) have a widget that showed some change, which you will get with smaller blogs. You don’t get it on larger ones, since having Top Posts displayed causes everyone to go there in a mad rush, making them untouchable.
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@thesacredpath but why is it called “Top Posts”, if it’s not showing the top posts? I don’t say that a widget like “Currently Hot Posts” doesn’t make sense, because it does, but then it should be named accordingly, and a true “Top Post” category should be implemented.
@raincoaster why not have both? it’s a widget, couldn’t take that many ressources…
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I don’t know about your blog, but in the 6 blogs that I manage (plus my two) the top 5 posts never change. I could do them in a text widget and then completely forget about it.
Just saying…
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well, apparently blogging in the US is different than blogging in other countries.
I’m happy about every single visitor, even if they’re not in the hundreds or thousands each day. But still, wordpress shouldn’t focus their services on mass-audience-bloggers, right? ;) (I think most of them would prefer wordpress.org anyway)
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