Hi there,

I'm having a bit of trouble getting the K2 content module to work in the way I'm assuming it should work.

My current settings are as follows:
Source: Retrieve Items from Categories
Select Categories: I've selected the categories I want to pull items from
Fetch items from children: Yes
Item Count: 8
Item Ordering: Most popular
Time Range: 1 week

What I expect to happen, is that K2 displays the most popular (most viewed) items over the past week. Setting it to 1 week displays nothing, 2 weeks displays nothing, 1 month shows one item, 3 months shows eight items.

I have many items on my site that are viewed many times daily by many people, yet articles still do not display under the most popular setting.

Ideally I'd like to have this set to 1 or 2 days.

What can I do to fix this?

Hello,

Which version of Joomla! and K2 are you using?
Are you using overrides for that module?

I'm using K2 2.6.9

I am using a module override, but I've have not changed any php, I've only changed the html to make use of bootstrap.


Edit: The K2 Content module that I used to make my override was from the 2.6.9 package as well.

Which caching method are you using? Are the hits being stored in the database?

I've tried it with caching on and off, no change.

When caching is enabled, I use conservative caching, and I've disabled caching for the k2 content module.

Edit: Hits are being stored in the database, yes - sorry, forgot to add that.

Caching the module will produce any results other than showing changes more quickly.

Can you do a test for me please?

Can you disable the site's cache and navigate to some K2 items?

Cache disabled (and cleared) and CDN disabled.

Set the module to 1 day, and nothing shows after visiting 5 different articles, 5 times each. K2 is counting the hits in the database in the backend.

I've left caching disabled since my last message and still no change in items displaying.

Any other suggestions on how to fix this?

Can you send me a link to your site?

yourmcmurraymagazine.com/

I've posted the link to my site, though, I'm not sure how that will help - all I've changed was the html :(

It does help. It is not an issue of your overrides. I accessed your site from three different browsers and the hits where not registering.
Is your server located behind or using a proxy?

It's cached right now with a cron job set up to clear cache every 12 hours, hits refresh on the front end at that time. Hits are registering in the backend though.

Actually, I'm wrong. The hits were not being added into the backend. I've made adjustments and hits are now being recorded properly, however, I did leave caching disabled for over a day and the most popular items were still not being populated correctly. I had the time range set to 1 day, and it still showed zero items.

Hits have been recording since my last post, still no change in how "Most Popular" is showing.

1 day, 3 days, and 1 week show nothing

2 weeks shows one item

1 month shows two items

3 month shows eight items

@Tyler Ancell

The time range filter is applied on the items creation date not on the item hits. So setting this to 1 week for example will first fetch the last week's items ( if any ) and then sort them by the hits counter.

Have items been inserted items in that period?
Keep in mind that if no items have been inserted in the past x period, no items will be shown. Most popular items within a week, means that the module will fetch the most popular items that were created within the past week.

If that's the case, then its really not working as I thought it was supposed to :(

What I thought to be the case, was that the time range would show the most popular items over that time range. Like a "whats trending" sort of thing.

Something like this:

www.joomlahill.com/demos/5-recently-hit-articles

or

extensions.joomla.org/extensions/extension/news-display/popular-content/most-popular-content-by-date-range
(This one looks fairly simple, but my php skills are probably insufficient to rewrite this to work with K2 items rather than Joomla articles)

Would there be a way to duplicate and override the K2 content module and make it so it displays the most popular items within a specific time range, regardless of when the items were created?


Also, thank you for all your help so far, it's definitely appreciated!

@Tyler Ancell

No, that's not so easy. In order to have trending items the way you want you need to track the time each item is hit. This is not done by K2, so this means that you need a third-party extension for that.