ImagePress: How to display popular images

Ciprian on Tuesday, July 17, 2018 in Blog, ImagePress
Last modified on Monday, July 16, 2018

This small function allows you to display most popular images from the past week and cache the results for 24 hours.

Note that you need to change your post_type, if it’s different than image.

This feature works with ImagePress version 7 or higher.

function feed_most_viewed($count) {
    // Get transient
    $is = get_transient('popular-images');

    if (false === ($the_query = get_transient('popular-images'))) {
        $args = array(
            'post_type' => 'image',
            'posts_per_page' => $count,
            'orderby' => 'meta_value_num',
            'meta_key' => 'post_views_count',
            'meta_query' => array(
                array(
                    'key' => 'post_views_count',
                    'type' => 'numeric'
                )
            ),
            'date_query' => array(
                array(
                    'after' => '1 week ago'
                )
            ),
        );

        $is = get_posts($args);

        // Set transient, and expire after 24 hours
        set_transient('popular-images', $is, 1 * DAY_IN_SECONDS);
    }

    if ($is) {
        $display = '<ul>';
            foreach ($is as $i) {
                $post_thumbnail_id = get_post_thumbnail_id($i->ID);
                $postAuthor = $i->post_author;

                if (has_post_thumbnail($i->ID)) {
                    $display .= '<li>' . do_shortcode('') . '<a href="' . get_permalink($i->ID) . '" class="regular-link"><b>' . get_the_title($i->ID) . '</b></a><br><small>by <a href="' . get_author_posts_url($postAuthor) . '" class="regular-link">' . get_the_author_meta('display_name', $postAuthor) . '</a></small><br><br><a href="' . get_permalink($i->ID) . '">' . wp_get_attachment_image($post_thumbnail_id, 'thumbnail') . '</a>
</li>';
                }
            }
        $display .= '</ul>';
    }

    return $display;
}

Use this in your theme’s functions.php file or in a custom plugin.

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