Using Top Posts widget
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I added the Top Posts widget to my blog, http://pegoleg.wordpress.com/ but it seems to show just the posts with the most hits in the last few days. Is there a way to get it to show my top posts of all time? Failing that, would I use the Text Widget for this and manually select the posts I know are the top ones? Is there a way to easily embed links to these? Thanks!
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You’re right the Top Posts Widget displays your most popular posts as of the last 48 hours.You can access this information without sharing it on your blog by going to Dashboard -> Blog Stats. http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/top-posts-widget/ There’s is not Top Posts of all time widget. This has been suggested in several threads:
https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/all-time-top-rated-change-enhance-widget-somehow?replies=8 -
Thanks, timethief. If I wanted to list the all time top, would I go to each post I wanted to list, copy the URL and paste it in the Text Widget box? Do you see any value in having a list of one’s Top Posts?
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Hello again,
I believe you can get the ifomation your need from your site stats page and indlude the links to the post titles in a text widget. But I do apologize as I can’t be of much help with this. I have never done this and don’t have any inclination to. I can see which posts have the most page views in my site stats and which posts have the most comments. I don’t consider them to be the best of my posts and as search engines are already driving lost of traffic to them I don’t need to “feature” them in any way. I’m more inclined to feature older posts that I feel have valuable content which has been overlooked. -
P.S. If forgot to mention above that I have a Popular Posts page which I link to in my custom menu.
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