The subject of the post should be “data suddenly went haywire”.. 🙂
Hi Jack,
Plugin has not been updated for a while now so, any other changes in your blog recently? Plugins upgrades / installs? Changed themes?
My site was subjected to Pharma Hack. So I reinstalled wordpress and my theme a few days back. Possibly due to this?
Probably, as it seems this hack affects the wp_options table to inject the links into search engines results and may have altered a few other things in there. Did you restore this table when you reinstalled WordPress?
I checked your site and things seem to be working alright. I need you to do something for me to make sure WPP is updating the views correctly into the database:
1. Open wordpress-popular-posts.php using an editor such as Notepad or Adobe Dreamweaver.
2. Find this portion of code:
function(data){/*alert(data);*/}
3. Change it to:
function(data){alert(data);}
4. Go to your site and view any post / page. You should get an alert saying something like “OK. Execution time: XXXXXXXXX”. If so, WPP is working fine and there must be an option or setting that’s different from your original configuration.
Hi Hector,
I just did what you suggested. Did not get any alert.
What should I do next?
My apologies. The alert only popped up when I used a different browser (was not logged in to my site) to visit the page.
Any suggestions on what I should be checking next?
Sorry, yes the alert just pops up for non-logged in users. Forgot to mention that hehe. I’m going to assume that everything went as expected since you didn’t say that the alert showed a different message than the one I posted before.
How are you sorting your popular posts on the widget in the footer? By views, as well?
Yes, the popup alert showed some numbers.
I set it to sort by daily average views.
When I click Settings -> WordPress Popular Posts (in wordpress dashboard), it shows me results (which page has highest posts etc) that are different from what I am getting on my website.
