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I would like to list the most popular selling items from my Expresso Store, but I can't find the tags to retrieve those items (preferably filtered by EE category too). Any pointers in the right direction would be very much appreciated.

Thanks in advance!

Tom

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To the best of my knowledge, there isn't a popularity tag in Store. This would require a custom query or an add-on.

Something like this

SELECT entry_id, sku, title, COUNT(*) FROM exp_store_order_items GROUP BY entry_id ORDER BY COUNT(*) DESC;

Will provide most popular items based on 'what's been ordered', but what's been viewed, popular searches, and a number of 'OTHER' variants of popular also exist.

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  • Thanks nonprofit_tech, I feared as much. This sounds like a pretty standard request though, can anyone recommend an existing add-on? – Tomtids Jan 30 '13 at 14:09
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    I'm not certain how standard it is. From info in Devot-ee[devot-ee.com/search/…, there aren't any Store plug-ins that deal with the issue. I'd assume most are satisfied with popularity based on views rather than orders. I guess it depends on how large your Store is. You can always place a feature request. But the custom query should work, just as well. – nonprofit_tech Jan 30 '13 at 15:01
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    This is the correct answer. There is no built in tag for it, though there is certainly nothing wrong with querying the database directly. I'd love to see a third party extension for this on Devot:ee, and we will also consider it for a future release. – Adrian Macneil Jan 31 '13 at 4:40
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You can also use EE's native "track_views" channel entries parameter on your individual product's page to count the views every time that page is browsed to by any user.

Eg.

{exp:channel:entries channel="products" url_title="{segment_2}" track_views="one"}

You can read more about it here:

http://ellislab.com/expressionengine/user-guide/modules/channel/channel_entries.html#channel-entries-track-views

Then you can use it with Store's search tag like this:

{exp:store:search channel="products" category="123" orderby="view_count_one" sort="desc"}

It's just important when searching by this "popularity" count that you then obviously sort the results descending so you get the products with the highest count first.

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