Title: Support › [Plugin: WordPress Popular Posts] Ignore Pages When No Wiget Used
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Support › [Plugin: WordPress Popular Posts] Ignore Pages When No Wiget Used

 *  [ed-tiley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ed-tiley/)
 * (@ed-tiley)
 * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/support-plugin-wordpress-popular-posts/)
 * Ikki24,
 * I’m evaluating WordPress Popular Posts to see if I can use it to query posts 
   by category, GD Stars Rating, and number of page views to create custom wigets
   that will function similarly to the “sections” on a typical news site that show
   the top five or six most popular/highly rated posts with a link to see the whole
   list.
 * I can’t believe that WP doesn’t natively count the number of views a post gets
   when a reader clicks on a post’s link, but….
 * The problem I’m having is that WPP wants to also count pages. Now I guess I could
   go in and hack the WPP code to set the default behavior to not count pages (only
   posts), but that seems inelegant and would require renewing the hack whenever
   there’s an update to WPP.
 * I don’t want to add one of WPP’s ready made wigets to the site at this time, 
   I just want it to count post views, and nothing else. Is there a tag or shortcode
   that can be used to control/alter the default behavior when not using a wiget?
 * TIA
 * Ed Tiley

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