Joomla Most Popular Content by Date Range

Category: Joomla Extensions

Last Updated on Tuesday, 02 April 2013 18:58

Written by Marcelo Canina

Most Popular Content by Date Range project brings the well known blogs feature most popular articles from a specific date range to Joomla.

It consists of a Joomla module and a plugin, and It is intended to work primarily with Joomla native articles.

Packed extensions:

• Module - mod_articles_mostpopular : generates a list of popular articles within a selected date range
• Plugin - plg_content_mostpopular : tracks articles page views for later processing

1.  Features

• Selectable date ranges
  • Last 1 day
  • Last 7 days
  • Last 30 days
  • All time
• Show articles from all categories or selected categories only
• Include/exclude featured articles
• Filter articles by Joomla current language

2.  Download

Package file: pkg_mostpopular.zip

3.  Installation

1. Download installation file.
2. Go to your site Administration area and select "Extensions / Extension Manager" menu
3. Upload file and select "Upload & Install"
4. Go to "Extensions / Plugin Manager" and enable "Content - Most Popular by Date Range" Plugin

   1. If you do not enable this plugin, the extension will not work as It can not track your content views

5. Customize module parameters in "Extensions / Module Manager" Most Popular Content by Date Range module

4.  Uninstall

1. Go to "Extensions / Module Manager" and select "Most Popular Content by Date Range Package"

You can also uninstall each module and/or plugin directly but the package will remain appearing on your extensions list

5.  Development

Any contribution is welcome!

• Github project repository

6.  Notes

If you use this extension, leave a comment and please post a rating and a review at the  Joomla! Extensions Directory page.

7.  Credits

This extension was designed based on the excellent WP Most Popular Wordpress plugin by Matt Geri.