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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Ginger.jpg (wppa-admin)
1868 views
4555
Foton.jpg (wppa-admin)
1113 views
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Foton_alt.jpg (wppa-admin)
927 views
4557
Galaxies.jpg (wppa-admin)
664 views
4558
Gamma.jpg (wppa-admin)
591 views
4559
General.jpg (wppa-admin)
532 views
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Fiddling-15.jpg (wppa-admin)
478 views
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Fiddling-2.jpg (wppa-admin)
453 views
4551
Fiddling-20.jpg (wppa-admin)
414 views
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Fiddling-22.jpg (wppa-admin)
388 views
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Fiddling-5.jpg (wppa-admin)
372 views
4554
Fire.jpg (wppa-admin)
349 views
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Fgz-Julia 16.jpg (wppa-admin)
323 views
4545
Fgz-Julia 17.jpg (wppa-admin)
319 views
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Fgz-Julia 18.jpg (wppa-admin)
307 views
4547
Fgz-Julia 19.jpg (wppa-admin)
290 views
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Fgz-Julia 20.jpg (wppa-admin)
284 views
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Fgz-Julia 13.jpg (wppa-admin)
365 views
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Fgz-Julia 14.jpg (wppa-admin)
272 views
4543
Fgz-Julia 15.jpg (wppa-admin)
256 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.