Title: [Plugin: WordPress Popular Posts] All time -> average daily views problem
Last modified: August 20, 2016
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# [Plugin: WordPress Popular Posts] All time -> average daily views problem
* [jenseo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jenseo/)
* (@jenseo)
* [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wordpress-popular-posts-all-time-average-daily-views-problem/)
* Hey there!
This plugin works perfect for me on my site, I’ve been running it
for almost a year now and I’m very happy with it, except for one thing!
* When I try to change the settings to display **all time** combined with **average
daily views**, the message _Sorry. No data so far._ displays.
* It works like a charm with **all time** combined with **total views**. All other
combinations seems to work as it should as well (Last 30 days + Average daily
views etc…)
* The site in question is [http://webbhjalp.se](http://webbhjalp.se) (in Swedish,
top 6 popular posts on the right, at the moment last 30 days + average daily
views.)
* Any idea what the problem might be?
* Thanks for a great plugin!
* // Jens.
* [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-popular-posts/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-popular-posts/)
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* Plugin Author [Hector Cabrera](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hcabrera/)
* (@hcabrera)
* [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wordpress-popular-posts-all-time-average-daily-views-problem/#post-2305192)
* Hi Jens,
* Sorry for the long delay. I’ll be taking a look a this and report back and/or
push a plugin update if necessary as soon as I can. It’s been a while since I
last took a look at WPP’s code so it might take sometime for me to fix whatever
needs some fixing.
* Thanks for stopping by!
* Thread Starter [jenseo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jenseo/)
* (@jenseo)
* [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wordpress-popular-posts-all-time-average-daily-views-problem/#post-2305193)
* Thanks Héctor for your reply!
I’m looking forward to hear about the solution!
* Take care!
// Jens.
* Thread Starter [jenseo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jenseo/)
* (@jenseo)
* [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wordpress-popular-posts-all-time-average-daily-views-problem/#post-2305203)
* Hey again Héctor,
I just updated to the latest version of your plugin, and unfortunately
now the thumbnails wont show in bigger size than like 20pixels or something anymore.
I had them customized to be bigger.
* See the sidebar of [http://webbhjalp.se](http://webbhjalp.se)
* Thanks!
* // Jens.
* Plugin Author [Hector Cabrera](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hcabrera/)
* (@hcabrera)
* [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wordpress-popular-posts-all-time-average-daily-views-problem/#post-2305204)
* Hi Jens,
* That’s not a bug. A few days back, the WordPress Team warned me that my plugin(
and others as well, I suspect) was causing security issues to many blogs around
because of the TimThumb script. This is a third-party php script my plugin was
using to create thumbnails, however it appears that someone found a flaw and
exploited it which is why I had to remove it.
* My plugin now relies on WordPress’ Post Thumbnail feature (a.k.a. Featured Image)
to let the users select their own thumbnails. Bad news is you’ll have to select
a featured image for all your popular posts, but first you’ll need to add this
two lines of code to your theme’s functions.php file:
* ```
// Enable post thumbnails
add_theme_support('post-thumbnails');
set_post_thumbnail_size(width, height, true);
```
* … where _width_ and _height_ are the dimensions of your thumbnails. For example:
* ```
// Enable post thumbnails
add_theme_support('post-thumbnails');
set_post_thumbnail_size(80, 80, true);
```
* I know this is annoying, so my apologies for the troubles caused.
* Thread Starter [jenseo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jenseo/)
* (@jenseo)
* [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wordpress-popular-posts-all-time-average-daily-views-problem/#post-2305205)
* Hey Héctor,
that’s no problem, I already use that function on all my blog posts.
The problem is, the plugin seems to resize the images, they are not being displayed
the size they actually are…
* // Jens.
* Plugin Author [Hector Cabrera](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hcabrera/)
* (@hcabrera)
* [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wordpress-popular-posts-all-time-average-daily-views-problem/#post-2305206)
* Mmm I think I know what the problem is. Please open wordpress-popular-posts.php,
find this code (around line 717):
* `$thumb = "ID)."\" title=\"". $title_attr ."\"
>" . get_the_post_thumbnail($wppost->ID, array($tbWidth), array('class' => 'wpp-
thumbnail', 'alt' => $title_attr, 'title' => $title_attr) ) ." ";`
* … and change it for:
* `$thumb = "ID)."\" title=\"". $title_attr ."\"
>" . get_the_post_thumbnail($wppost->ID, 'thumbnail', array('class' => 'wpp-thumbnail','
alt' => $title_attr, 'title' => $title_attr) ) ."";`
* Let me know if it fixes your thumbnail issue, please.
* Thread Starter [jenseo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jenseo/)
* (@jenseo)
* [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wordpress-popular-posts-all-time-average-daily-views-problem/#post-2305207)
* Thanks, that did the trick! 🙂
* Plugin Author [Hector Cabrera](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hcabrera/)
* (@hcabrera)
* [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wordpress-popular-posts-all-time-average-daily-views-problem/#post-2305208)
* Good, I’ll be sure to include this patch on the next release. Thanks for pointing
that out!
* Thread Starter [jenseo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jenseo/)
* (@jenseo)
* [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wordpress-popular-posts-all-time-average-daily-views-problem/#post-2305209)
* No problem! Thanks for a great plugin and for your help!
// Jens.
* Thread Starter [jenseo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jenseo/)
* (@jenseo)
* [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wordpress-popular-posts-all-time-average-daily-views-problem/#post-2305210)
* (I’m not changing to resolved, since my original question isn’t resolved yet)
* [cookieandkate](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cookieandkate/)
* (@cookieandkate)
* [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wordpress-popular-posts-all-time-average-daily-views-problem/#post-2305223)
* Hi, I tried to add a link underneath my thumbnail list, only to find that my
thumbnails shrunk from 108 pixel squares to 15 pixel squares after I updated
my plugin settings.
* Then I implemented both code changes suggested above. I specified 108×108 pixels
for my thumbnail image in my functions.php. While that did make the image bigger
than 15×15 pixels like it was before, the images resized to 135×135 pixels, which
is the size specified for thumbnails in my media settings. I don’t want to change
that size under media settings because 135×135 is the correct size for other
thumbnails on my site.
* Had I known that trying to tweak the plugin this morning would cause so much
trouble, I wouldn’t have messed with it at all. Now it looks all wrong and I
have spent over thirty minutes trying to fix it. 🙁
* If you don’t have a solution, do you know when you will have an update for the
plugin? I absolutely loved the way it looked before and would hate to remove
it altogether for now.
* Thank you,
Kate
* Thread Starter [jenseo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jenseo/)
* (@jenseo)
* [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wordpress-popular-posts-all-time-average-daily-views-problem/#post-2305224)
* Hey Kate,
you should be able to add a custom sized thumbnail to your functions.
php file, and then specify it in the plugin.
* Add this to your functions.php file:
* `add_image_size( 'popular-thumbnail', 108, 108, true );`
* And then change this in your plugin file:
* `$thumb = "ID)."\" title=\"". $title_attr ."\"
>" . get_the_post_thumbnail($wppost->ID, 'thumbnail', array('class' => 'wpp-thumbnail','
alt' => $title_attr, 'title' => $title_attr) ) ."";`
* To this:
* `$thumb = "ID)."\" title=\"". $title_attr ."\"
>" . get_the_post_thumbnail($wppost->ID, 'popular-thumbnail', array('class' =
> 'wpp-thumbnail', 'alt' => $title_attr, 'title' => $title_attr) ) ."";`
* [cookieandkate](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cookieandkate/)
* (@cookieandkate)
* [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wordpress-popular-posts-all-time-average-daily-views-problem/#post-2305225)
* Thank you so much for your help, Jens! I implemented your changes and they almost
work just right, except that my images are no longer cropped into a square. So
my horizontal images are 108 pixels high by 72 pixels wide, and my vertical images
are the opposite! It’s producing a collage-like effect in my sidebar: [http://cookieandkate.com](http://cookieandkate.com).
Do you happen to know how to fix that?
* Thread Starter [jenseo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jenseo/)
* (@jenseo)
* [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wordpress-popular-posts-all-time-average-daily-views-problem/#post-2305226)
* Just out of curiosity, what happens if you upload a new picture? It might be
that you need to re-upload your pictures, since this only will apply to new pictures,
not the ones already uploaded.
* There’s a plugin that does this automatically, so you don’t need to manually
upload all pictures again, but first, try it by uploading a new picture to one
of your popular posts.
* [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/regenerate-thumbnails/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/regenerate-thumbnails/)
* // Jens.
* [cookieandkate](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cookieandkate/)
* (@cookieandkate)
* [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wordpress-popular-posts-all-time-average-daily-views-problem/#post-2305228)
* Thank you, Jens! I just re-uploaded each of the six featured images, cleared
my cache, and it worked. I doubt that an older post will appear in the popular
posts section, but I’ll keep an eye out for it and re-upload the featured image
for those posts if necessary. Thank you so much for helping me resolve this issue!
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