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"]

4560
Ginger.jpg (wppa-admin)
1335 vus
4555
Foton.jpg (wppa-admin)
1066 vus
4556
Foton_alt.jpg (wppa-admin)
891 vus
4557
Galaxies.jpg (wppa-admin)
631 vus
4558
Gamma.jpg (wppa-admin)
561 vus
4559
General.jpg (wppa-admin)
511 vus
4549
Fiddling-15.jpg (wppa-admin)
451 vus
4550
Fiddling-2.jpg (wppa-admin)
429 vus
4551
Fiddling-20.jpg (wppa-admin)
385 vus
4552
Fiddling-22.jpg (wppa-admin)
364 vus
4553
Fiddling-5.jpg (wppa-admin)
339 vus
4554
Fire.jpg (wppa-admin)
327 vus
4544
Fgz-Julia 16.jpg (wppa-admin)
305 vus
4545
Fgz-Julia 17.jpg (wppa-admin)
294 vus
4546
Fgz-Julia 18.jpg (wppa-admin)
279 vus
4547
Fgz-Julia 19.jpg (wppa-admin)
269 vus
4548
Fgz-Julia 20.jpg (wppa-admin)
260 vus
4541
Fgz-Julia 13.jpg (wppa-admin)
250 vus
4542
Fgz-Julia 14.jpg (wppa-admin)
236 vus
4543
Fgz-Julia 15.jpg (wppa-admin)
230 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.