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.