Which WP plugin should I use to generate "popular" posts? [closed]

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  •  15-07-2023
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As mentioned in my previous question, I happened to see this site 22words.com and just can't figure out a few things:

1) in the source code, it seems the name of the WP theme is "twentytwo" but there's no such a theme in existence. How could this be possible? Maybe they used another theme and renamed it to "twentytwo"? Is that do-able? How to actually do it? Or maybe they just custom-made the theme and gave it a name called "twentytwo"?

2) Some posts have a big green "read more" button (e.g. twentytwowords.com/if-you-have-keys-and-a-purse-or-know-someone-who-does-youve-lived-some-version-of-this-story/) how does this work? If I want to mimic this approach for long posts, what's the best way of doing it?

3) The top navigation bar have drop-down menus such as "latest posts" and "popular posts" in the respective categories. Is all this a gimmick or not? I mean, what's being shown are actually "latest" and "popular" posts, or is it just BS and there's no stats to back up "popular"? If it's not gimmick, then how is it implemented? Which plug-ins are in place to calculate traffic and generate "popular" posts?

Any help would be much appreciated!

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Solution

lets get this done quickly :)

1.) I guess they have made an own theme and named it that way.

2.) In the editor you have a "readmore" tag enter image description here if you click this you will insert a special line / markup. Now your theme nees a call for this line "Excerpts (teasers) can be shown on WordPress through two methods:

The first, keeping the the_content() template tag and inserting a quicktag called more at your desired "cut-off" point when editing the post. The second, by replacing the the_content() template tag with the_excerpt()." Here is all you need: Link to wordpress documentation the excerpt

3.) There are quite a lot of ways to do that. You could order posts by popularity by the number of comments or the number of views or the number of shares. There a loads of tutorials on the web to do so. It's so simple it would be sad to use a plugin AND: you could learn a lot from it... tutorial by view is here: http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-track-popular-posts-by-views-in-wordpress-without-a-plugin/ tutorial by number of comments is here: http://www.jafaloo.com/how-to-display-popular-posts-in-wordpress/

all the best fabian

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