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<?php
$start = date('Y-m-d', (time() - (60 * 60 * 24 * 30)));
$end = date('Y-m-d');
$showpages = 5;
$thispage = 1;
 
$login = new GADWidgetData();
$ga = new GALib($login->auth_token, $login->account_id, 60);
$pages = $ga->pages_for_date_period($start, $end);
 
echo "<ul>";
foreach($pages as $page) {
	$url = $page['value'];
	$title = $page['children']['value'];
	echo '<li><a href="' . $url . '">' . $title . '</a></li>';
	$thispage++;
	if($thispage > $showpages) break;
}
echo "</ul>";
?>

24 Comments

1. On March 26, 2010
   12:03PM

   

   Jason said:

   Hey Rob,

   Really digging this! One problem though. The title of one of the results is ‘(not set)’.

   Is there any way to hide specific results?
   Check the top right sidebar.
   http://www.mesmerlab.com/

   Thanks!

2. On March 26, 2010
   1:05PM

   

   Rob Glazebrook said:

   Hi Jason,

   I suppose if you knew exactly what you wanted to ~not~ display, you could do something like this in your foreach loop:

   if($title != "Naughty Title") {
   	echo '<li><a href="' . $url . '" rel="nofollow">' . $title . '</a></li>';
   	$thispage++;
   }

   That way it won’t display the article if the title is bad, and it won’t count against your total either.

3. On March 26, 2010
   2:33PM

   

   Jason said:

   Ok, with your nudging, I customized it a little bit more. I passed up the ones with “(not set)” as well as the home page itself. Then I took out my website name from each title by stopping at the pipe character.

   I tried using the double pipe operator and combining both checks, but each combination that I tried was letting both results through.

   if($title != “WordPress Development – Magento Development – Mesmer Lab”) {
   if($title != “(not set)”) {
   $newtitle = substr($title, 0, strpos($title, “|”));
   echo ‘‘ . $newtitle . ‘‘;
   $thispage++;
   }
   }

   If I were into building WP plugins, I might query the GA results and list them with checkboxes next to each. An admin interface for choosing which results to display would be more user friendly and portable.

4. On March 29, 2010
   8:15AM

   

   Jordan Walker said:

   That is a really neat feature to show which of your articles is more popular than the others.

5. On March 30, 2010
   7:38AM

   

   Gieroj said:

   Very nice and simple. I was just looking for something like this

   Thank you for sharing

6. On April 04, 2010
   12:26PM

   

   Sravan said:

   Excellent find – this is very useful – I will plan to include this in my site soon – thanks for the share

7. On April 05, 2010
   10:09PM

   

   Different-guy said:

   Excellent tips, thnx for sharing

8. On April 16, 2010
   7:52AM

   

   Adriana said:

   Is it possible to show a thumbnail image?

9. On April 18, 2010
   2:18PM

   

   Kat Fulton said:

   Great. Thank you for sharing! I’m trying to do this…

10. On April 30, 2010
    11:12PM

    

    Reading Articles said:

    The related post entries is a good way to make your visitors stick to your site along with finding content easily for viewers in which they are interested.

11. On May 23, 2010
    12:46AM

    

    James said:

    Awesome widget idea–I’ll be implementing it ASAP. One quick question though. Any way to maybe include number of views in the given time period? Thought about including that in parentheses after the title, but no idea how best to do that. It’s probably in the GAD documentation, but I haven’t gotten to investigating that deeply yet.

12. On August 27, 2010
    6:12AM

    

    adi said:

    Thanks for sharing this info…

13. On October 29, 2010
    6:36AM

    

    oezman said:

    Thanks for this post. To me it’s not clear WHERE to paste the php-code you provide. Could you please be more specific in this?

    Thanks so much!

14. On October 29, 2010
    9:44AM

    

    Rob Glazebrook said:

    Hi Oezman,

    The “where” is simply wherever you’d like the analytics information to appear. You’ll have to edit one of your WordPress theme’s PHP files in order to make it happen. In my case, I wanted the information to appear in my sidebar, so I opened up sidebar.php in my theme’s folder, found the spot I wanted it to occupy, and dropped the code in there.

    If you wanted it to show up in the footer, you’d generally edit footer.php. If you wanted it just above/below your content, you’d generally edit index.php or home.php (depending on how your theme is set up, not all of these files may exist).

    But the basic idea is, drop the code in where you want it to show up. :)

15. On December 19, 2010
    4:01PM

    

    Bruce said:

    Thanks for the tip! Currently I’m using

    Top 10 Plugin via Popular Posts by:
    http://ajaydsouza.com/wordpress/plugins/top-10/

    I may give Google Analytics Top Content plugin a try in the future.

16. On December 28, 2010
    1:26PM

    

    relax tone said:

    I may give Google Analytics Top Content plugin a try in the future.

17. On January 08, 2011
    10:37PM

    

    Brett Widmann said:

    This was really helpful! Thanks for tips and code.

18. On February 01, 2011
    4:07AM

    

    Matilda said:

    Hi. Thanks a lot for this. I was looking for this as a plugin but it comes with a credits link, which I dont’t like. I saw these changes that Jason did. But I have no idea where to implement them in the code. I’m a complete noob with php so, could someone PLEASE paste the entire code with Jasons changes? I would be very happy. Thanks.

    ps. i can get it to work just fine, as long as I stick to the code without the changes.

19. On February 23, 2011
    4:06AM

    

    Tafreevar said:

    Hi Rob,
    First of all, thanks for your precious tip to show popular posts.
    I’ve been successfully using your php function along with “google analytics dashboard 1.0.6″ on my blog.
    But recently the plugin’s been updated to “2.0.1″ and your php function doesn’t work anymore.
    Would you please update your php function?
    Thanks in advance.

20. On April 06, 2011
    8:19AM

    

    Jeroen said:

    Nice idea, but you’ll get logged out of google analytics after a while and then your blog will show an error rather than top content.

21. On June 20, 2011
    1:56PM

    

    Simon said:

    Hey Rob, this sounds like a grand snippet. However I get no output from it, what could’ve gone wrong? Thanks a lot for the post.

22. On August 12, 2011
    3:56AM

    

    adi said:

    indeed, very nice tool. thanks!

23. On August 12, 2011
    4:00AM

    

    adi said:

    look here another interesting tool:

    http://freshwebtrends.com

24. On August 23, 2011
    11:56AM

    

    Travis Tubbs said:

    The good news is this method still works, but the plugin has gone through a change in the login method (yay OAuth!). After doing a little bit of editing, I was able to get this to work on my site. I also changed the way this works by making it a function and adding an array to hide unwanted titles. The code is below. Thanks for discovering this in the first place! Love it!

    // Display Popular Posts based on Google Analytics
    // via http://www.cssnewbie.com/google-analytics-top-content-in-wordpress/
    // using http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-analytics-dashboard/
    // updated for oAuth using gad-widget-data.php
    function ga_popular_posts() {
    // User Parameters
    // How far back to search (in days)?
    $searchrangedays = 30;

    // Show how many posts?
    $showpages = 5;

    // Hide specific posts (by title)?
    // add additional ‘$gaHidePosts[] = “Title”;’ (without ‘single quotes’) to hide more posts.
    $gaHidePosts = array();
    $gaHidePosts[] = “Naughty Title”;

    // Do Not Edit Below This Line
    $start_date = date(‘Y-m-d’, time() – (60 * 60 * 24 * $searchrangedays));
    $end_date = date(‘Y-m-d’);
    $thispage = 1;

    $login = new GADWidgetData();
    if($login->auth_type == ‘oauth’) {
    $ga = new GALib(‘oauth’, NULL, $login->oauth_token, $login->oauth_secret, $login->account_id);
    } else {
    $ga = new GALib(‘client’, $login->auth_token, NULL, NULL, $login->account_id);
    }

    $pages = $ga->pages_for_date_period($start_date, $end_date);

    $gaPopularPosts = “”;
    foreach($pages as $page) {
    $url = $page['value'];
    $title = $page['children']['value'];

    if( !in_array($title, $gaHidePosts) ) {
    $gaPopularPosts .= ‘‘ . $title . ‘‘;
    $thispage++;
    }

    if($thispage > $showpages) break;
    }
    $gaPopularPosts .= “”;

    echo $gaPopularPosts;
    }

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   4:23PM

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