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Travis Pflanz

Recent Popular Tags WordPress plugin allows the administrator to display the most popular recently used tags by post authors.
This plugin is very valuable for current events websites because it gives admins the ability to set the number of tags to display and how many days to consider as “recent”… No more popular tags displaying from two years ago!
Default Usage
Heading and Recent Popular Tags will be displayed beneath each blog post.
Shortcode
Use shortcode <code>[recent-popular-tags]</code> to display Recent Popular Tags anywhere in blog posts, pages, custom post types or in a text widget.
Template Tag
Use <code><?php if ( function_exists('rpt_display_content') ) { echo do_shortcode('[recent-popular-posts]')} ?></code> to display Recent Popular Tags in your template files
Widget
Use <code>[recent-popular-tags]</code> in a “Text” widget to display Recent Popular Tags in a sidebar

Recent Popular Tags

Very useful plugin, I like how it shows more relevant tags than just a bunch of rarely used ones.



Must have for displaying tags!

Display the most popular recently used blog post tags on your website. Valuable for website with current events... No more old tags!

Bill Erickson

This is a helper plugin to allow you to build WordPress queries using WordPress.com stats.
This plugin uses the WordPress.com stats (packaged in Jetpack) to find out your most popular posts. You must be running Jetpack for this plugin to work. I recommend running Jetpack for at least 30 days to get useful data.
It asks for the 100 most popular posts over the past 30 days. This includes both posts and pages, since their stats don’t let you filter based on post type. I filter this list down to just posts and then store its ranking as post meta (‘be_stats’).
You can <a href="https://gist.github.com/billerickson/4997202" rel="nofollow ugc">write custom queries</a> to list popular posts, or use the <a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/display-posts-shortcode/" rel="ugc">Display Posts Shortcode plugin</a> to do it for you. Examples using the shortcode plugin:
[display-posts orderby=”popular”] – Lists the 10 most popular posts 
[display-posts orderby=”popular” posts_per_page=”4″] – Lists the 4 most popular posts 
[display-posts orderby=”popular” posts_per_page=”4″ tag=”basic”] – Lists the 4 most popular posts tagged “basic”
<h3>For Developers</h3>
There are a few filters available to you for customization. Refer to the plugin’s code for more information.
be_stats_args – arguments passed to WordPress.com Stats API. 
Default: array( ‘days’ => 30, ‘limit’ => 100 ) 
Example: http://www.billerickson.net/code/customize-be-stats-arguments/
be_stats_update – Conditional for determining if stats data should be saved 
Default: ‘post’ == get_post_type() 
Example: http://www.billerickson.net/code/be-stats-change-ranking-conditions/

BE Stats

Keeps track of your most popular posts for display in site

Recent Popular Tags vs BE Stats