Title: [Plugin: WordPress Popular Posts] How to customize layout
Last modified: August 20, 2016
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# [Plugin: WordPress Popular Posts] How to customize layout
* [Carloalberto Fornea](https://wordpress.org/support/users/carletto0282/)
* (@carletto0282)
* [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wordpress-popular-posts-how-to-customize-layout/)
* Hi everybody.
* Thanks Hector for your great work with this plugin it’s just awesome.
I really
appreciate your last upgrade that includes custom post types support!
* I’d like to ask you some information about customizing layout.
* Since I’m using WP TYPES and VIEWS to manage custom post types and layout I massively
use shortcodes from this plugin to recall my post informations like custom field
linked images or metadata.
* Is there a way to pass a fully customized html/php layout to your plugin’s query?
* It’s the same thing I do – i.e. – with other plugins like “posts 2 posts”.
* Thanks
* [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-popular-posts/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-popular-posts/)
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* Thread Starter [Carloalberto Fornea](https://wordpress.org/support/users/carletto0282/)
* (@carletto0282)
* [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wordpress-popular-posts-how-to-customize-layout/#post-3018598)
* Actually my needs are to manipulate the template of a single element of the query
a little deeper than I could with the available tags.
* Since I had to literally build the image url trough shortcode with something
like:
* [http://domain.xyz/multimedia/%5Bimage](http://domain.xyz/multimedia/%5Bimage)
custom field]
* maybe could be useful to be able to add more pattern elements.
Is there a way
to do that?
* Thanks in advance
Keep up the good work! Regards
* Carlo
* Plugin Author [Hector Cabrera](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hcabrera/)
* (@hcabrera)
* [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wordpress-popular-posts-how-to-customize-layout/#post-3018780)
* Hi Carlo,
* You should be able to arrange the HTML output by using the `wpp_start`, `wpp_end`,`
post_start`, `post_end` properties with your shortcodes.
* I am aware that this is a little limited at the moment, and I do plan to make
this more flexible on future versions. I’ll take a look at that plugin you mentioned,
maybe I could grab some ideas from it.
* Thread Starter [Carloalberto Fornea](https://wordpress.org/support/users/carletto0282/)
* (@carletto0282)
* [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wordpress-popular-posts-how-to-customize-layout/#post-3018781)
* Hi Hector,
* thanks for your answer, I will try something… or I will wait until next plugin
upgrade!
* Anyway here you find how the plugin I was talking about works… hope it could
help!
* [https://github.com/scribu/wp-posts-to-posts/wiki/Actions-and-filters](https://github.com/scribu/wp-posts-to-posts/wiki/Actions-and-filters)
* Thanks again!
Bye Carlo
* Thread Starter [Carloalberto Fornea](https://wordpress.org/support/users/carletto0282/)
* (@carletto0282)
* [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wordpress-popular-posts-how-to-customize-layout/#post-3018782)
* Hi Hector,
* I’m sorry to bother but I’m trying to do what you said and I’m getting weird
results.
* I’m trying to load wpp_get_mostpopular function trough a shortcode to easily
manage the parameters.
* Actually if I try something like this
* `$content = ''`
* …
* ```
wpp_get_mostpopular(array(
'limit' => 5,
'range' => 'monthly',
'order_by' => 'views',
'post_type' => 'shows',
'stats_views'=> 0,
'stats_comments'=> 0,
'post_start' => $content,
'post_end' => '',
));
```
* but if I try
* `$content = ''`
* I always get
- …
- I tried with and I get the same result.
It works alone but not customized.
- How I was supposed to customize my layout?
- Thanks and regards mate.
- Carlo
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* [custom layout](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/custom-layout/)
* [layout](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/layout/)
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* Last reply from: [Carloalberto Fornea](https://wordpress.org/support/users/carletto0282/)
* Last activity: [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wordpress-popular-posts-how-to-customize-layout/#post-3018782)
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