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Hello,

I’ve managed to show a list of popular posts for the past month; however, I’d like to limit the number of posts that are displayed. Since I’m using the display_by=“month” variable, the limit=“1” pertains to the month variable and I’m unsure how to limit the number of posts displayed in this instance.

Here is my code:

<div class="grid_6 omega">
<h3>Most Popular This Month</h3>
<p><ul><br />
{exp:weblog:entries weblog="blog" orderby="view_count_one" dynamic="no" status="open||featured" display_by="month" limit="1"}<br />
<li><a href="http://{title_permalink=">{title}</a></li><br />
{/exp:weblog:entries} <br />
</ul><br />
</div>

Thank you for any advice!

I don’t think there is a parameter can help u

put u can work around use count like this:

<div class="grid_6 omega">
<h3>Most Popular This Month</h3>
<p><ul><br />
{exp:weblog:entries weblog="blog" orderby="view_count_one" dynamic="no" status="open||featured" display_by="month" limit="1"}<br />
{if count < "5"}<br />
<li><a href="http://{title_permalink=">{title}</a></li><br />
{/if}<br />
{/exp:weblog:entries} <br />
</ul><br />
</div>

Instead of display by month, you could use the simple month= parameter and dynamically populate it to the current month by using the current_time global variable.  Then the limit parameter still remains available to you.  The downside would be that it would show only items from within the current month, rather than the last 30 days - but I think display by month has the same limitation.

So I think you could do this:

<div class="grid_6 omega">

{exp:weblog:entries weblog="blog" orderby="view_count_one" dynamic="no" status="open||featured" month="{current_time format="%m"}" limit="6"}
{if count == "1"}<h3>Most Popular This Month</h3>
<p><ul>{/if}</p>

<p><li><a href="http://{title_permalink=">{title}</a></li><br />
{if count == total_results}</ul>{/if}<br />
{/exp:weblog:entries} </p>

<p></div>

I also simultaneously threw the heading and <ul></ul> tags inside the entries tags with conditionals around them so that if there were no results, nothing would display, not even the heading and ul tags.

Hope that helps/works.  Please let me know.