1. It’s commented out because it never worked.

2. Internally we pull the standard WP Post objects, so you could pull any related information you want and expose it to yourself.

Sorry to bother you again, but I was looking at the plugin’s code (using 0.4.8.3 – 0.5 gives me a blank output), and I’m wondering two things:

1 – Is there a reason the thumbnails are disabled by default? I was hoping to use them and uncommented those lines, but didn’t know if they were commented out because you found a problem with them. Just wanted to check.

2 – I tried following the template of the other lines of code towards the bottom of recently_popular.php to add the ability to call the posts’ category name and excerpt, but I guess I didn’t do it properly. Would this be hard to do? If not the category name, I would think the excerpt might be a bit easier.

Again, I can’t thank you enough for your work on this plugin. I’m so glad I was able to find the time-based popularity plugin I was looking for.

I’ve been using the Alt-Shift-Num Lock shortcut to disable the feature each time.

Could I suggest for a future version adding a category tag to the list of available items to output? Something that simply outputs the category number would work. That way, it would allow people to output the category number as part of a class name (e.g., class=”cat%category_number%”)that could be styled in CSS.

Hmmm. Interesting problem. There’s noting in the plugin that would directly help you do this. However, with a little css & javascript magic you could do it. Just let Recently Popular build out the list as it normally would, then use javascript to loop through the ul and apply an ascending class name to each li element, then style them appropriately. Users with javascript disabled won’t see the effect, but it will all still work.

The 6th argument is the output format. Yours is empty. Thus, for the top 5 entries you are telling it to output nothing.

I’m using your instructions for a non-widgetized implementation, inside a tab system (Recently Popular, Most Recent, Most Commented) where links are color-coded based on their category using PHP if, elseif, else statements. The output format string only takes HTML, and when I thought to instead stick a get_recently_popular lines within each conditionary statement, I realized that wouldn’t work since each get_recently_popular generates not one item, but the whole thing.

Any suggestions?