Title: Cherry Trending Posts
Author: templatemonster-2002
Published: <strong>November 14, 2016</strong>
Last modified: May 7, 2019

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# cherry-trending-posts

 By [templatemonster-2002](https://profiles.wordpress.org/templatemonster-2002/)

 * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/cherry-trending-posts/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/cherry-trending-posts/#reviews)
 * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/cherry-trending-posts/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/cherry-trending-posts/)

## Description

This plugin has been closed as of September 20, 2021 and is not available for download.
Reason: Guideline Violation.

## Reviews

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/fc77301323323a85d8df3c53c17aa202e7c449cf70d35bf01070d05f506d462a?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[conflicts with mod_security](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/conflicts-with-mod_security/)󠁿

 [danielsimpli](https://profiles.wordpress.org/danielsimpli/) October 9, 2018

Oct/2018: If you use apache mod_security with CRS rules, it will trigger rule 933180.
REQUEST-933-APPLICATION-ATTACK-PHP id 933180 PHP Injection Attack: Variable Function
Call Found Matched Data: $s (%2$s. Average %3$s of %4$s) found within ARGS:trend_format[
ftype0]: %1$s (%2$s. Average %3$s of %4$s) severity CRITICAL ver “OWASP_CRS/3.1.0”

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/8e270d62727394d1bdce4278a2bc99fcc8ae963c92f36add832fbb366daaaf8d?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Very Useful, But Could Be Better](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/very-useful-but-could-be-better-2/)󠁿

 [compusolver](https://profiles.wordpress.org/compusolver/) December 21, 2017

According to the plugin documentation, you must manually add two actions to your
theme before this plugin will work. They tell you which file to change, IF you use
a particular free theme, but you have to decide whether to add it to your theme’s
index or single or single-post file otherwise. The code shown (that you need to 
add) on the plugin page is incorrect. I found the correct code on the GitHub site.
There’s even more code to add if you use a cache. And they didn’t mention it, but
trust me – you’ll need to flush that cache before these results will display. If
you’re still with me after all that, know that the posts this widget will show (
yes, “widget”, since I found no shortcode, etc. to allow it’s data to be used in
a page, etc.) will likely always be the same old posts. Why? Because people want
to see what’s “trending”, so they’ll click on a page shown by this widget. Especially
if using “views” as the criteria, just the fact of listing the posts will increase
the views and perpetuate their display. I found no built-in function to add a date
filter, so as to limit to only the most recent posts. I had to manually add that
code – something that many users may not wish to or be able to do. With all that
said, this plugin serves an important need and seems to have little competition.
Hopefully they will keep it updated and make some improvements.

 [ Read all 2 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/cherry-trending-posts/reviews/)

## Contributors & Developers

“Cherry Trending Posts” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ TemplateMonster 2002 ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/templatemonster-2002/)
 *   [ zemez ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/zemez/)

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### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/cherry-trending-posts/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/cherry-trending-posts/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/cherry-trending-posts/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/cherry-trending-posts/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Meta

 *  Version **1.0.2**
 *  Last updated **7 years ago**
 *  Active installations **N/A**
 *  WordPress version ** 4.5 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **5.1.0**
 *  [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/cherry-trending-posts/advanced/)