Title: Manipulation?
Last modified: September 17, 2020

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# Manipulation?

 *  Resolved [r9000](https://wordpress.org/support/users/r9000/)
 * (@r9000)
 * [5 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/manipulation/)
 * I’ve been using this plugin for a couple of years and it’s jut perfect. So thank
   you!
 * I’m wondering if there’s any easy way to manipulate the order of the posts. Sometimes
   we have circumstances where we would like a page to be displayed and we currently
   reload the page enough times to make it appear, which is time consuming and incredibly
   boring.

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 *  Plugin Author [Hector Cabrera](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hcabrera/)
 * (@hcabrera)
 * [5 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/manipulation/#post-13419137)
 * Hi [@r9000](https://wordpress.org/support/users/r9000/),
 * > I’ve been using this plugin for a couple of years and it’s jut perfect. So 
   > thank you!
 * I’m glad you like it. Thanks for the kind words!
 * > I’m wondering if there’s any easy way to manipulate the order of the posts.
   > Sometimes we have circumstances where we would like a page to be displayed 
   > and we currently reload the page enough times to make it appear, which is time
   > consuming and incredibly boring.
 * Well, you could edit WPP’s database tables and insert the data manually. It’s
   still manual work but I guess is still less than having to click _N_ amount of
   times on the refresh button from the browser.
 * WPP stores its data in two separate tables:
    1. wp_popularpostsdata: stores the total views count of every post & page. This
       is where the “All-time” / “Hall of Fame” data comes from.
    2. wp_popularpostssummary: stores the views data used by the Time Range feature(
       last 24 hours, last 7 days, etc.).
 * With that being said, personally I think that maybe you’re using the wrong plugin
   for this. If you want to highlight specific posts/pages maybe you should consider
   using a featured/recommended posts plugin instead and keep WPP to highlight popular
   posts. It would likely require less manual work than what you’re trying to do
   now 😛

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 * Last reply from: [Hector Cabrera](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hcabrera/)
 * Last activity: [5 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/manipulation/#post-13419137)
 * Status: resolved