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"]

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Gopalsamy-Sin-1.jpg (wppa-admin)
1881 views
4578
Gopalsamy-Sin-2.jpg (wppa-admin)
1129 views
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Gopalsamy-Sin-2_alt.jpg (wppa-admin)
945 views
4580
Gopalsamy-Sinh-1.jpg (wppa-admin)
701 views
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Gopalsamy-4_alt.jpg (wppa-admin)
633 views
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Gopalsamy-5.jpg (wppa-admin)
556 views
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Gopalsamy-5_alt.jpg (wppa-admin)
513 views
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Gopalsamy-Exp-1.jpg (wppa-admin)
473 views
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Gopalsamy-Exp-2.jpg (wppa-admin)
437 views
4576
Gopalsamy-Exp-2_alt.jpg (wppa-admin)
405 views
4564
Goat.jpg (wppa-admin)
375 views
4565
Gopalsamy-1.jpg (wppa-admin)
363 views
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Gopalsamy-1_alt.jpg (wppa-admin)
341 views
4567
Gopalsamy-2.jpg (wppa-admin)
327 views
4568
Gopalsamy-2_alt.jpg (wppa-admin)
316 views
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Gopalsamy-3.jpg (wppa-admin)
306 views
4570
Gopalsamy-4.jpg (wppa-admin)
287 views
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Ginger_alt.jpg (wppa-admin)
367 views
4562
Glynn.jpg (wppa-admin)
264 views
4563
GlynnOut.jpg (wppa-admin)
258 views

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.