Title: “Top 10 Posts” Hack Last modified: August 18, 2016 --- # “Top 10 Posts” Hack * [Laughinglizard](https://wordpress.org/support/users/laughinglizard/) * (@laughinglizard) * [22 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/top-10-posts-hack/) * I really liked the “Top 10 Posts” on [Jeremy Zawodny’s Blog](http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/) and wanted it for my blog as well. So I wrote a small hack which keeps track of the number of times a particular post is clicked on (using the database) and then makes a list of these posts along with the number of clickthroughs. You can see it in work on the sidebar ( [http://dinki.mine.nu/weblog/](http://dinki.mine.nu/weblog/)). Here is a [link to the hack instructions](http://dinki.mine.nu/word/b2-img/top10posts.txt). This is WordPress 0.72 and 1.0+ compatible. Also, to give my “Who is Online?” hack a little more exposure, here are the instructions to display the number of users on your site at any time. [http://dinki.mine.nu/word/b2-img/whoisonline.txt](http://dinki.mine.nu/word/b2-img/whoisonline.txt) You can see it at work on my blog [http://dinki.mine.nu/weblog/](http://dinki.mine.nu/weblog/)( look at the “other” area) Viewing 4 replies - 1 through 4 (of 4 total) * [alexkingorg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alexkingorg/) * (@alexkingorg) * [22 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/top-10-posts-hack/#post-31020) * I thought about this a little while ago and I decided some kind of scale was probably needed. This is what I came up with as an initial scale: 1 point for a view on the home page 1 point for a view in the archives by date 2 points for a view in the archives by category 10 points for a view of the post by itself 20 points for a comment 25 points for a trackback What do you think? * [alexkingorg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alexkingorg/) * (@alexkingorg) * [22 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/top-10-posts-hack/#post-31026) * One idea I had was to just write everything to a text file and have a CRON job run every night (or 12 hours, etc) to do the database work. * [stevecooley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stevecooley/) * (@stevecooley) * [22 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/top-10-posts-hack/#post-31032) * the initial part of this conversation works great. 🙂 Thank you! That was very easy to add. * Anonymous * [22 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/top-10-posts-hack/#post-31367) * blalblabla Viewing 4 replies - 1 through 4 (of 4 total) The topic ‘“Top 10 Posts” Hack’ is closed to new replies. * 4 replies * 4 participants * Last reply from: Anonymous * Last activity: [22 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/top-10-posts-hack/#post-31367) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics