Making Alex King’s Popularity Contest cache-compatible

:: Sunday, April 29th, 2007 @ 10:51:31 pm

:: Tags: Computers

Hey, guys. I’d love to help to “encourage” Alex King to update his Popularity Contest plug-in for Wordpress to be WP-Cache2/APC compatible. When I was out in Denver last month, Alex said he had plans to do it, and that he had already given some serious thought to how it would be architected.

To help encourage the re-write, I’m going to donate money to Alex in the name of making Popularity Contest cache-compatible. If enough people donate, it may help to put the project at the top of his every-growing list of things to do.

So if you use Popularity Contest, please donate now! Even a few bucks will help. Use the Paypal comment field to specify that you’d love a cache-compatible version of the Popularity Contest plugin.

UPDATE 5/18/07 For the time being, I’ve installed WP-Cache2 and Mike’s modification of Alex’s plugin. I haven’t ventured into APC land, but I may, soon. :)

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:: 8 comments (rss)

1. posted by Mosey on Mon, April 30, 2007 @ 5:34 pm

   Great idea! :D The reason why I haven’t used Popularity contest is mainly because I use Wp-cache2 and because I know that certain posts are popular - they will get cached more and skew the results.

2. posted by Liew Fong on Tue, May 01, 2007 @ 3:55 am

   wow! glad to know that it is in Alex King’s plan. Ya, I made my donation. :)

3. posted by Sean Kelly on Tue, May 01, 2007 @ 4:45 am

   Non-techie Question: What are the benefits of making Popularity Contest “cache-compatible”?

   (Incidentally, I just started using Popularity Contest on my TopNewFranchises.com site using only comments as criteria for voting. It’s working well.)

4. posted by Rogier Willems on Tue, May 01, 2007 @ 8:31 pm

   Yeah this sucks :-(

   Now I understand why Chris was so determined to stay on the peninsula in order not to be dependent on a Bridge to get to work or social life.. Unfortunately it comes with a premium…

5. posted by I’m Mike » Blog Archive » Making popularity contest play nice with WP-Cache on Thu, May 03, 2007 @ 1:52 pm

   [...] are both popular Wordpress plugins. Unfortunately, the two are not compatible, and I’m not the only one who finds this a bit irritating. The popularity contest readme states: Since Popularity Contest [...]

6. posted by Mike Malone on Fri, May 04, 2007 @ 3:38 pm

   Hi,

   I had the same problem, so I made some modifications to popularity contest that makes it WP-Cache compatible. You can download the modified popularity-contest.php and read a description of how it works on my blog.

7. posted by WP-Cache2 and empty RSS feeds | Eric Cheng’s Journal on Thu, May 24, 2007 @ 2:16 pm

   [...] been amazing. It was well worth the effort to get it installed (and compatible with Alex’s Popularity Contest plugin, which I also [...]

8. posted by Liss on Sun, August 12, 2007 @ 12:24 pm

   This is great! Nice job. I was wondering, do you have any ideas on how I can force a page to completely load before it will update the Popularity? (Using Alex’s Popularity Contest). Right now, people want there page on top, so they’re refreshing hundreds of times without the page actually loading, which is putting a load on my server.

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