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First you need to set up entry tracking - http://ellislab.com/expressionengine/user-guide/modules/channel/entry_tracking.html - this will count how many times an entry has been viewed. After that add a Channel entries tag to show your most viewed entries (see sample code at http://ellislab.com/expressionengine/user-guide/modules/channel/entry_tracking.html )

The example doesn’t seem to explain what I want to achieve.

I would like to track how many times blog posts are viewed then on the home page show the top 10 most viewed posts.

Am I missing something or is this not what tracking is for?

Entry tracking counts how many times an entry has been viewed. Once you add the parameter to the Channel entry tag that you want tracked EE will then start counting. You can then use another channel entries tag to show your top 10 list using the {view_count_xxx} parameter.

Example top 10 list tag:

{exp:channel:entries channel="yourchannel" limit="10" orderby="view_count_one" sort="desc"}
{title} viewed {view_count_one} times
{/exp:channel:entries}

Ahh OK perfect.
Thank you so much.
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Hello

I’ve implemented something similar to the example bluedreamer presented above in my website’s sidebar.
When I am on mysite.com/blog it presents a list of the 5 most viewed entries as expected.
But if I’m viewing an entry like mysite.com/blog/my-post-title the only entry that shows in the list is from the page I’m currently viewing.

The sidebar is brought in with an embed

{embed="{embed_tempgroup}/_aside"}

Below is the code I’m using to create the list.

<ul>
{exp:channel:entries channel="blog" status="open" limit="5" orderby="view_count_one" sort="desc"}
    <li><a href="http://{path={channel_name}/{url_title}}">{title}</a></li>
{/exp:channel:entries}
</ul>

Any ideas on what the snag might be?

EE v2.5.2 - Build Date: 20120606

Silly me, All I needed was to add dynamic=“no” to my EE call