Add Post Count To Each Article In Wordpress

Ok, as promise to a blog buddy of mine, Kah Soon, that I will share a small plugin to show the post count in each for the the article as shown in the picture below.

Please follow the steps:-

• 1. Download Top10 plugin for Wordpress.
• 2. Login to your database, either through phpMyAdmin or telnet.
  Create a table called mostAccessed, by using this SQL query:-
  [sql]create table mostAccessed
  (
  postnumber int not null,
  cntaccess int not null,
  primary key(postnumber),
  unique id(postnumber)
  );[/sql]
• 3. Find this line to your index.php:-
  [php]
  < ?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
  [/php]
  Then add the following code below the line:-
  [php]< ?php if ($id > 0) { add_count($id); } ?>[/php]
• 4. Look for this line in index.php too:-
  [php]< ?php the_title(); ?>[/php]
  Then, add the following code below the line:-
  [php]< ?php if (!( is_home() || is_page() )) { ?>
  < ?php show_post_count($post->ID,
  $before=”This post has been viewed “,
  $after=” times since “); ?>
  < ?php } ?>[/php]
• That’s it.

The post count will appear whenever the single page of the article is shown.

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4 Responses to 'Add Post Count To Each Article In Wordpress'

1. SapiensBryan - July 6th, 2005 at 6:58 pm

   Hey Kah Soon,

   You actually have already downloaded the plugin and left a “very nice!” comment there. LoL

   Anyway, hope my tutorial helps.

2. lilian - July 7th, 2005 at 1:51 am

   Why everyone WP, WP leh. I use 2 MTs and one WP (neglected blog). My MT can do spam control like yours or not ha? ‘Cos spam is killing me even with MT blacklist. BTW, I link you as Bryan ah?

3. SapiensBryan - July 7th, 2005 at 2:20 am

   Hi Lilian,

   Yup, I’m bryan.

   ErrR… Why WP ah? Because I’m using it mah. I have already been using WP since the beginning and this is my first ever blog.

   This spam control is a nice plugin written by some really nice guy. Don’t know any nice guy using MT is willing to write a similar one. Anyway, before I used this spam control, I held every commment for moderation before been posted. But moderating thousand of spam is quite irritating. Spam problem is going rampant these days, sigh…

4. Prohor - September 27th, 2006 at 8:50 am

   Thank for making this valuable information available to the public.