Re: Plugin: bb-Topic-Views
@Sam, I use your excellent Page Links plugin, and I wrote mine specifically to be compatible with yours. In fact, I wouldn’t have known what filter to use if it weren’t for your plugin.
I set the priority of my filter as 99
(yours is set to 100
), so it fires directly before yours. Also, my plugin checks to see if the page_links_add_links
function exists, and if it does it automatically drops the page links to a new line below the title in order to make things a little more sightly.
@smurfdude, I thought about that, too. I initially decided against that route so I could have it function without having to edit any template files. The way it works right now is that it is inserted with a filter that is triggered when (and where) the topic title is fed to the page. If you’re feeling really ambitious, you can go into bb-topic-views.php
to see how the mechanics of the plugin work. From there, you could change some things around so you could put the views count in its own column. Eventually I may add that functionality within the plugin, but that’s not a high priority right now.
Speaking of priorities, the next to-do on my list is to add functionality where a user can add a template tag that will display the top 5 (or 10, or whatever) most viewed posts, either as <li>
items so you can use it anywhere, or in a format similar to the way the Latest Discussion area is laid out. Stay tuned…