WP Author Ranking

Instalación

1. Upload the wp-author-ranking folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
3. Open the setting menu, it is possible to set the execution condition.

Get the ranking data.

The function “get_wpAuthorRanking()” return the ranking data stored in an array.
This example prints ranking data.

<?php
$rankingData = get_wpAuthorRanking();
for ($i=0; $i < count($rankingData); $i++) {
    echo '<li>';
    echo '<p>No'.$rankingData[$i]['rank'].'</p>';
    echo '<p><strong>'.$rankingData[$i]['display_name'].'</strong></p>';
    echo '<p>'.$rankingData[$i]['count'].'pv<p>';
    echo '</li>';
}
?>

Informations the ranking data has.

• ID
• user_login
• user_nicename
• user_email
• user_url
• user_registered
• user_activation_key
• display_name
• count (page view count)
• rank (rank)

Request options

You have four options to require ranking data.

• y (year)
• m (month)
• d (day)
• cpt (custom post type)
• exclude (exclude users)
• sort

This example gets columnist (post type ‘column’) ranking in September 2014.

<?php 
$rankingData = get_wpAuthorRanking(array(
    'y'=>2014,
    'm'=>9,
    'cpt'=>'column'));

for ($i=0; $i < count($rankingData); $i++) {
    echo '<li>';
    echo '<p>No'.$rankingData[$i]['rank'].'</p>';
    echo '<p><strong>'.$rankingData[$i]['display_name'].'</strong></p>';
    echo '<p>'.$rankingData[$i]['count'].'pv<p>';
    echo '</li>';
}
?>

Gets totally worst ranking, exclude ID.3 and ID.4 user.

<?php 
$rankingData = get_wpAuthorRanking(array(
    'sort'=>'ASC',
    'exclude'=>array(3,4)));
for ($i=0; $i < count($rankingData); $i++) {
    echo '<li>';
    echo '<p>No'.$rankingData[$i]['rank'].'</p>';
    echo '<p><strong>'.$rankingData[$i]['display_name'].'</strong></p>';
    echo '<p>'.$rankingData[$i]['count'].'pv<p>';
    echo '</li>';
}
?>

Count pv manually

In default setting, page views are counted at single post page. You also have the function “count_wpAuthorRanking()” to count authors page views manually.
This example counts id-3 user on ‘column’ post type.

<?php 
count_wpAuthorRanking(array('user'=>3,'cpt'=>'column'));
?>