Google Analytics Top Content Widget with Analytify plugin

Description

An addon plugin to WP Analytify that adds new shortcode analytify_top_content Why do I need it To show accurate most popular posts list without killing your server database Normally top content most popular posts are calculated by adding 1 in database each time somebody visits certain post or page This is fine when there are not many visitors but makes your database very busy once there are more visits Caching Either will stop counting of new visits or will be passed by through javascript what will lead to heavy load again But probably as most of the sites you re using analytics Right And in analytics panel you can see most visited pages for certain date range Why not use it instead of duplicating this existing feature on your website by yet another popular posts plugin That s exactly what we do here To keep things simple and don t repeat what was already done by numerous other plugins we base our code on free WP Analytify plugin this way you don t have to authorize Analytics again if you re already using it or you ll get some extra analytics within WP admin panel once you install it How it works Shortcode allows users to fetch top pages from Google Analytics and show them as a list Global options page allows you to exclude some particular pages across whole website if you re using more than one shortcode on it Hostname parameter was added to allow WPML Polylang other languages solutions work well this way you can skip particular domain in particular place Technical details when shortcode is fired plugin will look for data stored in WordPress internal cache transient If no luck new request through Analytify will fetch data from Analytics and keep it in transient for another visitors How will it look like As you wish By default it s a list of titles with links If you want to modify default outlook simply copy shortcode php file from templates directory to wp-analytify-shortcodes directory withing your child theme If you want to have different outlook for different post types simply add there shortcode-POST_TYPE php file for example shortcode-post php Example of code to use in case you d like to load additional post data like featured image ul php foreach rows as row li php global post you can show thumbnail this way echo get_the_post_thumbnail row- getPostId thumbnail you can load all post data this way setup_postdata post and then load your template part get_template_part template-parts some_template don t forget to reset postdata wp_reset_postdata li php endforeach ul How to use Available parameters period defines time period we want to get like 2 months last month last 3 weeks Required to when period does not contain a word last we need to define point in time which is the last day of required period so 2 weeks to 2018-12-01 is between 2018-11-14 and 2018-12-01 limit number of rows we want to show exclude-home-page pass yes if you want to exclude home page which gets the most number of views usually from results post-type required post type in results title-remove text we want to remove from the page title except-ids post IDs we want to skip from the result except-urls post urls we want to skip from the result hostname adds ability to filter by hostname i e page in different language Useful if you use WPML Polylang or Multisite in different domain subdomain mode and want to limit results to current domain only exclude-items adds ability to exclude parents or children Useful for example if you want to show only top level pages or only popular child pages This plugin has global settings support for except-ids except-urls and exclude-home-page options 1 3 1 2019-05-09 FIX Invalid class called for admin settings 1 3 0 2019-05-03 NEW Ability to exclude top pages or child pages IMPROVEMENT Code refactoring 1 2 2019-01-15 NEW Global options for Top Content shortode found in Analytify – Settings – Shortcodes global settings 1 1 2019-01-14 NEW Possibility to exclude certain post IDs or urls from appearing in the result NEW Ability to select base hostname from Google Analytics i e for different language pages 1 0 2018-12-27 First release Support available in Polish and English