Question

How can I display my most viewed posts on a single page ?

For this moment, i’ve create a new template page (content-most-viewed.php) wich is called by get_template_part();

On Internet, i’ve read that query_posts could solve my problem, but it seems to fail.

This is my template :

<?php query_posts('meta_key=post_views_count&orderby=meta_value_num&order=DESC');
//query_posts('post_type=post&posts_per_page=10&orderby=comment_count&order=DESC');?>
<div class="post">
    <?php if (have_posts()) : ?>
        <?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
            <div class="heading">
                <h2><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title();?></a></h2>
            </div>
            <?php the_content();?>
            <div class="link-holder"><a href="/index.php">Retour</a></div>
        <?php endwhile; ?>
    <?php else : ?>
        <div class="heading">
            <h2>Not Found</h2>
        </div>
        <p>Sorry, but you are looking for something that isn't here.</p>
    <?php endif; ?>
</div>

But, I can only get recent posts, or “Not Found” (any resutls)

In advance, thanks !

Answer 1

WordPress by itself does not keep track of the number a post is viewed there are pluging that do this: WPP, plugin repos
These plugins will have build in functions to do this.

side note
don’t use query_posts its bad for preformance. use WP_query in stead. reasons why it is bad: https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/a/50762/10911, https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/a/50762/10911