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I’ve spoken with two new users of my MostWanted plugin during the last week, both of whom were keen on using the fixstats feature, which I’d written, but which I’d never actually linked-in to he code. So here’s a new version of MostWanted the at includes the capability to fix the stats which StatTraq doesn’t correctly handle (because of permalinks).

To use FixStats, go to the Admin screen then select “Plugins | MostWanted Config”, then press the “Fix Stats” button.

Just in case people search for it… this is what you use to fix the No results available. message.

Cache

This is also the first version that can cache stats results. It’s a feature that I’d written into version 0.1.7, but then I never released 0.1.7 so it’s been rolled into this release.

A new parameter, $timeout, has been added to the method signature. It defines how long the results should be cached for. So to have the MostWanted list generated every time a page is requested, set $timeout to 0 - but - if you’re happy with the table being updated only every 30 minutes, set the timeout to 1800 (which is 60 seconds * 30 mins: 60*30=1800).

Using the cache will mean your DB will get hit far less often by MostWanted, but your list of popular posts will still appear fresh.

Download

As usual, this latest version can be downloaded from the MostWanted page.