=== Recently Popular ===
Contributors: ebiven
Donate link: http://eric.biven.us/
Tags: recent, popular, views, hits, counter, postviews
Requires at least: 2.5.0
Tested up to: 2.7
Stable tag: 0.2

Displays the most popular posts based on history from now to X amount of time in the past.

== Description ==

This popularity plugin differs from the ones currently in the directory because it returns the number of views from the current time back to a user-requested time. For instance they can show the most viewed posts from the past 4 days, or 7 hours, etc. Post/page views age and can "expire" instead of being counted into perpetuity.

It includes a widget that supports a user definable number of hours or days or weeks or months as well as a limit on the number of results to show. The plugin URL shows a screenshot of the widget which makes it much clearer.

== Installation ==

1. Upload the plugin files to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory
1. Activate the plugin and widget through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress
1. Add the widget to your sidebar and configure its options

== Frequently Asked Questions ==

= Are there configuration options for the base plugin? =

Not yet.  It may eventually be built to support ignoring bot views, and possibly including or excluding logged in users.

= I installed it but I don't see anything listed in the sidebar. =

You probably haven't had any page views from users who aren't logged in.  You really have two options: 1) log out and view some posts or 2) wait.

= I asked it to show X posts, but it's showing fewer.  What gives? =

The "limit" setting is just that, a limit.  If you ask it to show only 10, but there are only 5 posts with views in the timeframe you're asking for, it can only show those 5.

== Screenshots ==

1. The widget

== Changelog ==

= 0.1 =
* First release

= 0.2 =
* WordPress 2.7 testing
* Added support for 2.7 automatic uninstall

== Roadmap ==

= 0.3 =
* Settings page
* Setting to count hits from logged in users, anonymous users, or both

= 0.4 =
* Support for template tags in widget output
* Support for purging records from the stats table

= 0.5 =
* ?

= 0.9 =
* Feature complete, bugfixes only

= 1.0 =
* First production release