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What a marvelous place the Blogosphere is. In addition to posting here did I also send out a couple of emails to bloggers who seemed to use the same combination of plugins and what do you know this is one of the answers and after following the advice it turns out to be a solution as well.

Having asked for permission from frenchy @ http://www.frenchysfracas.com this is the entire email containing said solution:

Hi Jan,

I did the worst thing: I edited the file.. ;o)

First things first: I’m currently using Popularity Contest 1.2.1 and Sideblog WordPress Plugin 3.6 (most recent version is 3.8).

So, basically it’s a slight adjustment of the select statement – using a DISTINCT fetches just one distinct row of data. The Sideblog plugin, the Popularity Contest plugin and whatever’s changed since WordPress 2.1 gets us the double rows of the same data.

1. find the popularity-contest.php file in your plugins directory
2. make a backup copy and put somewhere in a different folder than the plugins folder (or else it
might show up in your plugins admin page)
3. edit the popularity-contest.php file:

‘
– function show_top_ranked

function show_top_ranked($limit, $before, $after) {
global $wpdb;
$temp = $wpdb;
$join = apply_filters(‘posts_join’, ”);
$where = apply_filters(‘posts_where’, ”);
$groupby = apply_filters(‘posts_groupby’, ”);
if (!empty($groupby)) { $groupby = ‘ GROUP BY ‘.$groupby; }
$posts = $wpdb->get_results(“
>>> SELECT DISTINCT ID, post_title
FROM $wpdb->posts
LEFT JOIN $wpdb->ak_popularity pop
ON $wpdb->posts.ID = pop.post_id
$join
WHERE post_status = ‘publish’
AND post_date < NOW()
$where
$groupby
ORDER BY pop.total DESC
LIMIT “.intval($limit)
);

– function show_top_ranked_in_cat

function show_top_ranked_in_cat($limit, $before, $after,
$cat_ID = ”) {
if (empty($cat_ID) && is_category()) {
global $cat;
$cat_ID = $cat;
}
if (empty($cat_ID)) {
return;
}
global $wpdb;
$temp = $wpdb;

$join = apply_filters(‘posts_join’, ”);
$where = apply_filters(‘posts_where’, ”);
$groupby = apply_filters(‘posts_groupby’, ”);
if (!empty($groupby)) { $groupby = ‘ GROUP BY ‘.$groupby; }

$posts = $wpdb->get_results(“
>>> SELECT DISTINCT ID, post_title
FROM $wpdb->posts
LEFT JOIN $wpdb->post2cat pc
ON $wpdb->posts.ID = pc.post_id
LEFT JOIN $wpdb->ak_popularity pop
ON $wpdb->posts.ID = pop.post_id
$join
WHERE pc.category_id = ‘”.intval($cat_ID).”‘
AND post_status = ‘publish’
AND post_date < NOW()
$where
$groupby
ORDER BY pop.total DESC
LIMIT “.intval($limit)

– function show_top_ranked_in_cat

function show_top_ranked_in_month($limit, $before, $after,
$m = ”) {
if (empty($m) && is_archive()) {
global $m;
}
if (empty($m)) {
global $post;
$m = get_the_time(‘Ym’);
}
if (empty($m)) {
return;
}
$year = substr($m, 0, 4);
$month = substr($m, 4, 2);
global $wpdb;
$temp = $wpdb;

$join = apply_filters(‘posts_join’, ”);
$where = apply_filters(‘posts_where’, ”);
$groupby = apply_filters(‘posts_groupby’, ”);
if (!empty($groupby)) { $groupby = ‘ GROUP BY ‘.$groupby; }

$posts = $wpdb->get_results(“
>>> SELECT DISTINCT ID, post_title
FROM $wpdb->posts
LEFT JOIN $wpdb->ak_popularity pop
ON $wpdb->posts.ID = pop.post_id
$join
WHERE YEAR(post_date) = ‘$year’
AND MONTH(post_date) = ‘$month’
AND post_status = ‘publish’
AND post_date < NOW()
$where
$groupby
ORDER BY pop.total DESC
LIMIT “.intval($limit)

‘

I’m attaching both plugins, I’m not sure if I changed anything in the Sideblog plugin file..

Best of Luck!

regards,
frenchy!