Moderator’s note: Moved to Howto.

I am trying to find a way to display a list of entries sorted by the month they were published and then the number of views for each article in descending order…

JUNE 2008
Article Z (234)
Article X (202)
Article Y (123)

MAY 2008
Article B (405)
Article C (309)
Article A (124)

I can do this by calling each month separately and ordering by view_count_one, but that leads to extra code for each month.

When I try to simplify the code like this, using the {date_heading} tag and calling multiple “orderby” commands…

{exp:weblog:entries weblog=“whatever” orderby=“date|view_count_one” sort=“desc|desc” year=“2008” rdf=“off” dynamic=“off”}
{date_heading display=“monthly”}
<h4>{entry_date format=”%F %Y”}</h4>
{/date_heading}
<p><a href=”{comment_entry_id_auto_path}”>{title}</a> ({view_count_one})</p>
{/exp:weblog:entries}

...I get only halfway. The entries are sorted by month, but within each month they are also sorted by date, not by view_count_one.

I suspect this is a logic problem. Any ideas?

This is totally untested and just a stab at it, but try adding a second weblog:entires tag just to sort the view count titles. Like so:

No, that does not work. It throws the display into some sort of endless loop, repeating the last three months’ of entries.

Greetings,

In lieu of giving the answer away easily, here is a snippet, tip, and parameter that might help out.

I see a tag that only fires monthly, and my little friend embed: