Best Of Photos

 

If the rating system is enabled in Basic settings -> General -> I Item 5: Enable Ratings and configured in Basic settings -> Rating according to your preferences, you can easely display the best recently rated photos using shortcode type="bestof"
Example:
[wppa type="bestof" count="6" sortby="ratingcount" period="lastyear" height="120"]

4540
Fgz-Julia 12.jpg (wppa-admin)
1858 vus
4528
Fermenta.jpg (wppa-admin)
1070 vus
4529
Fgz-Julia 01.jpg (wppa-admin)
895 vus
4530
Fgz-Julia 02.jpg (wppa-admin)
691 vus
4531
Fgz-Julia 03.jpg (wppa-admin)
576 vus
4532
Fgz-Julia 04.jpg (wppa-admin)
514 vus
4533
Fgz-Julia 05.jpg (wppa-admin)
470 vus
4534
Fgz-Julia 06.jpg (wppa-admin)
434 vus
4535
Fgz-Julia 07.jpg (wppa-admin)
397 vus
4536
Fgz-Julia 08.jpg (wppa-admin)
372 vus
4537
Fgz-Julia 09.jpg (wppa-admin)
351 vus
4538
Fgz-Julia 10.jpg (wppa-admin)
321 vus
4539
Fgz-Julia 11.jpg (wppa-admin)
308 vus
4521
Exp 03-08_alt.jpg (wppa-admin)
407 vus
4522
Exp 04-01.jpg (wppa-admin)
293 vus
4523
Exp 04-01_alt.jpg (wppa-admin)
282 vus
4524
Exp 04-19.jpg (wppa-admin)
258 vus
4525
Exp 04-19_alt.jpg (wppa-admin)
243 vus
4526
Exp 04-20.jpg (wppa-admin)
237 vus
4527
Exp 04-20_alt.jpg (wppa-admin)
224 vus

The shortcode version supports the following optional atributes:

Attribute (default) Example Meaning
page (0) page="4711" linkpage
count (1) count="12" max number to show
sortby (maxratingcount) sortby="meanrating" the selection criterium. Must be one ot of "maxratingcount", "meanrating", "ratingcount" or "totvalue"
display (photo) display="owner" what to show. Must be one out of "photo" or "owner"
period (thisweek) period="lastyear" the period to look for. Must be one out of "lastweek", "thisweek", "lastmonth", "thismonth", "lastyear" or "thisyear"
maxratings (yes) maxratings="no" Whether to display the number of max ratings. Either "yes" or "no"
meanrat (yes) meanrat="no" Whether to display the mean rating. Either "yes" or "no"
ratcount (yes) ratcount="yes" Whether to display the number of votes. Either "yes" or "no"
totvalue (no) totvalue="no" Whether to display the total count of votes. Either "yes" or "no"
linktype (none) linktype="owneralbums" What to show on the linkpage. Must be one out of "none", "owneralbums", "ownerphotos" or "upldrphotos"
fontsize (The setting in Basic settings -> Layout -> V: Fonts -> Item 10: Widget thumbs fontsize) fontsize="10" The size of the font used in the subtitles
lineheight (fontsize * 1.5) lineheight="15" The lineheight for the subtitles
height (200) height="120" The total height of the displayed images Staring at version 6.8.04 this value is the maximum for the width and the height of the image

The feature is also available as widget.
The first widget shows the best rated photos last year based on mean value.

The second widget shows the best rated photos this year based on number of max ratings.

The second widget shows the names (and links to all their photos) of the best photographers of last year, based on number of max ratings.

You can select various time periods, selection critera and display options.