Best approach to create Hot and Trending sections

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Best approach to create Hot and Trending sections

Robert hue

2020年6月28日 21:39

I am going to implement a Hot and Trending section on a website. I have seen such sections on many popular websites but can't really figure out how exactly this works.

Although I assumed Hot section is most popular posts (based on post views) which I developed by a custom WP_Query. And it works.

$args = array(
    'post_type' = 'post',
    'post_status' = 'publish',
    'meta_key' = 'post_views',
    'orderby' = 'meta_value_num',
    'ignore_sticky_posts' = 1,
    'paged' = $paged,
);
$hot_query = new WP_Query( $args );

But I am stuck on Trending section. What exactly is the idea behind it for creating a custom query.

I want to know what is the best approach to get content in each section. I tried searching on Google for couple of days but could not really find anything useful.

EDIT

My post views function.

function set_post_views( $postID ) {
  if ( is_singular() ) {
    $count_key = 'post_views';
    $count = get_post_meta( $postID, $count_key, true );
    if ( $count=='' ) {
      $count = 0;
      delete_post_meta( $postID, $count_key );
      add_post_meta( $postID, $count_key, '0' );
    } else {
      $count++;
      update_post_meta( $postID, $count_key, $count );
    }
  }
}

Topic popular-posts post-meta wp-query Wordpress

Category Web

Pieter Goosen · Accepted Answer · 2015年1月3日 04:31

In my personal opinion, this can get a bit resource intensive, so you will need to implement some type of cache system, or even look at transient

What you want to do is to extent your current post view function or even create one on the side for this. You would want to capture each view twice, once for normal page view as you are currently doing ($count_key) , and secondly for a custom view function using maybe $custom_count_key

Now, this is how $custom_count_key would work:

A page view is recorded when the page (post) is visited as per normal
This field is cleaned out (all data deleted) daily/weekly/etc depending on how you would like to define your Trending section. This again would set the value to 0 at the start of a new day/week/etc

What you will need to do:

As stated, either extend or write another page view function to store daily/weekly/etc views
Create a function that will run at a specific time daily/weekly/etc (whichever suite your needs better) which will delete/clean-out the values of that meta field.
Create your custom query to query an x amount of posts which has the highest amount of views for the specific day/week/etc. The posts been retrieved by this query will differ through out the day/week/etc as each post's views are increased due to page visits.
You can also save the results from a day/week/etc in the db for future reference before deleteting/cleaning out the current values at the end of that specific day/week/etc, but that is up to you and might even be just a waste of time and space

This is just a basic idea that you can use. I'm not in the position to code something like this now, but is would be really nice if you use this idea to post your final working solution to this

Good luck and all the best on this project

Shady M Rasmy · Accepted Answer · 2015年1月3日 00:12

trending page query

$today = getdate();
$args = array(
          'meta_key'     => 'post_views',
          'meta_value'   => '1000',
          'meta_compare' => '>=',
          'orderby'    => 'meta_value_num',
          'ignore_sticky_posts' => 1,
          'paged' => $paged,
          'date_query' => array(
                array(
                        'year'  => $today['year'],
                        'month' => $today['mon'],
                         'day'   => $today['mday'],
    ),
),
);
$trenquery = new WP_Query( $args );

the hot page query should be the same but meta value 3000 or more. this code is TODAY trend . this code is tested in my site and working , and i also added by week and by month and all time

rafsuntaskin · Accepted Answer · 2015年1月2日 16:57

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rafsuntaskin answered at 2015年1月2日 16:57

As @cybmeta said... You can define trending as you want. But I think you should consider using Social shares value for the trending posts. If you use any Social share plugin then you can extract the value from there.

Rarst · Accepted Answer · 2015年1月2日 16:39

The typical idea behind trending is content that is popular in short recent span of time. If you are only capturing total post views for content you likely won't have data to implement it.

For example:

Post A is 100 days old, had 100K views total, around 1K views a day.
Post B is 10 days old, had 10K views, 8K of them in last day.

A is long time popular, but B is trending at this moment (even though before that it had lower daily and all time traffic levels than A).

You would need to be able to tell “rolling” value, not just views in life time of the post, but how were those views distributed in time (at some passable level of precision).

Shady M Rasmy · Accepted Answer · 2015年1月2日 07:00

Trending is done by using between two values ,

Example

post views meta value>=1000
And the other post view meta value =<3000

And the hot page

Meta value =>3001 .

I cant post the code now I am from mobile , I used this in my comic site

Best approach to create Hot and Trending sections

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