How to sort by most watched in X days/months

Question

So I managed to loop my posts in a page template, ordering the posts by most viewed.

The query posts string looks like this

$wplover_home = new WP_Query('posts_per_page=18&v_sortby=views&v_orderby=desc&paged=' . $paged);

while ($wplover_home->have_posts()) : $wplover_home->the_post(); ?>

Now to my question. If I wanted to sort the posts by most viewed in X days or months, how should the string look like then? The documentation for the plugin (wp-postviews) doesn't have anything on this.

Thanks in advance :-)

Answer 1

Not sure exactly what you mean by "x days or months", but I'm assuming you want to set a time interval for the posts that you are querying. I would recommend that you take a look at the "Time Parameters" section in the Codex article on WP_Query. It does an excellent job explain how to limit the query by day, month, year, or for a specific interval. If you have a question after reviewing that, I'd be happy to help.

Answer 2

If you wanted to sort by only the views in the past XX days. It is not possible, as the plugin does not record the date. More information here.