Hi Vince!
Possible? Yes. Possible now? Nope. I’ve done a few tests with the plugin in the past and managed to build an RSS feed of popular posts. Problem is it was a really messy/hacky code and ended up discarding it.
Currently, I’m working on a new version of the plugin that hopefully will make it easier for everyone to do many other things with WPP – including building an RSS feed. It’s a work in progress though, if you’re still interested by the time I finish it I’ll post back here with instructions so you can help me test it.
Thanks Hector, that would be great, more than happy to help with testing
Hi Hector!
Was just researching to see if this was possible as it’d be great for a Mailchimp RSS-driven campaign.
Will the update use post_meta to store a post’s popularity in some way?
You may well be aware but the WordPress RSS feed can be filtered with URL parameters, e.g:
/feed/?orderby=meta_value&order=ASC&meta_key=_edit_last
So once posts have the necessary metadata, the RSS feed more or less takes care of itself.
Apologies if you already know this / if it’s what you’re working on! 🙂
Hey guys!
@johnpuddephatt thank you, I wasn’t aware of that!
If that’s the case then following the first step of the Sort a custom query by views (All time, monthly, weekly, or daily) tutorial will provide you the missing bit you needed to have a feed of popular posts:
/feed/?orderby=meta_value&order=ASC&meta_key=views_daily
(Change the meta key to your preferred choice)
It’s also possible to have a /feed/popular/ RSS feed but this requires a bit more work. I’ll write a tutorial about it and share it with you guys once it’s done.
I’m really interested in having this functionality, but I’m not having much luck with the link in the post above.
Any luck with the tutorial you mentioned for a specific feed?
Hi @someguynz!
Actually I started writing the article but got back to my full-time job and haven’t had the time to finish it. Thanks for the remainder though, I’ll work on it and hopefully publish it sometime during this week (and of course will also share the URL here when it’s done).
Hi @hcabrera – I don’t suppose you managed to get anywhere with this did you? 🙂
