Hi @jackoneill,
WordPress Popular Posts considers posts and their translations as a single entity, hence why views count towards the “original” post and not its translation(s). And no, there’s currently no way to change this behavior.
I can’t display the popular posts of the secondary language because only the posts without translation to the primary language will be shown.
WPP expects all posts to have at least one translation available. This is sort of hinted at in the Description page:
Polylang & WPML 3.2+ support – Show the translated version of your popular posts!
If no translation is found the plugin will render the “original” post instead. So yes, you can’t have a “Most Popular In [Language Here]” list as that’s not how it works with WPP and translation plugins.
- This reply was modified 13 hours, 11 minutes ago by . Reason: Added note on translations
Thank you for the explanation, Héctor. Would be great if this could change in the future.