ImagePress: How to display popular images

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('[follow_links follow_id="' . $postAuthor . '"]') . '<a href="' . get_permalink($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.