About 2 weeks back I released a minor update to Top 10. This is a minor update that fixes the links in the Dashboard widgets when you login to your WP-Admin.

I have been working on an update for Contextual Related Posts to incorporate some of the changes in Top 10, especially related to thumbnail support. A summary of changes in v1.7 and 1.7.1 are:

1.7.1

• Fixed: Minor bug fix for location of thumbnail

1.7

• Added: New function related posts() that allows you to manually add posts to your theme
• Added: Support for Video Thumbnails plugin
• Added: Thumbnail settings now reflect max width and max height instead of fixed width and height
• Added: Option to display thumbnails before or after the title
• Added: Option to not display thumbnails instead of the default thumbnail
• Added: Plugin now uses InnoDB instead of MyISAM if your server is running mySQL v5.6 or higher
• Modified: Cleaner Settings page interface
• Modified: Updated FAQ page

This update is the first step towards adding in better support for styling the list, which has been the biggest request from most users of the plugin.

I have also added a wishlist for features I would like to add in future versions. As usual, suggestions and feature requests are welcome and will be implemented as soon as practicable.

Here’s wishing all my readers and plugin users a Merry Christmas!

And, as my Christmas gift to you all, I have released v1.8 of Top 10. This version is a relatively large update with major reason being better thumbnail support. I have also cleaned up the code a bit and included some minor adjustments that should make your mySQL server happy (especially if you do not display excerpts).

The main changes are thanks to code from Daedalon.

Changes

• Added: Support for Video Thumbnails plugin
• Added: Thumbnail settings now reflect max width and max height instead of fixed width and height
• Added: Option to display thumbnails before or after the title
• Added: Option to not display thumbnails instead of the default thumbnail
• Added: Counts are now neatly formatted with commas
• Modified: Minor tweaks to improve performance

As usual, you can grab Top 10 from its WordPress page or if you’re already a user, you can update it from within your WordPress admin area.

I’ve had this lying around for more than a week checking the performance on my demoblog. And I guess it is time to be unleashed into the wild. I’ve just updated Top 10 to v1.6.2

WordPress doesn’t count page views by default. Top 10 will count the number of page views on your single posts on a daily as well as overall basis. You can then display the page view count on individual posts and pages as well as display a list of most popular posts based on page views.

Includes a sidebar widget to display the popular posts. And, all settings can be configured from within your WordPress Admin area itself! You can choose to disable tracking of author visits on their own posts.

Changelog:

• Fixed: Multiple rows being created for same ID
• Fixed: Counter display
• Added: New button to clear the duplicate rows in the tables
• Fixed: Top 10 should be lighter on the server now

I was going through a rather interesting post that Jeff made on WP Tavern. There has been a lot of discussion about credit links in plugins and themes. While themes have been more painful due to the links being misused for sponsored links.

Both Contextual Related Posts and Top 10 have credit links, where I provide the user the option to turn off the credit link. In this version of both these plugins I have changed the default option to off. This means that the plugins on first installation will no longer link back to my site.

However, this option will not change if you upgrade. So, you’ll need to manually turn it off if you don’t want the link.

Again, need I say that I would highly appreciate if you turn on the option. Alternatively, if you’re using the plugin, can I ask you to make a post on what you like about it?

Top 10:

WordPress doesn’t count page views by default. Top 10 will count the number of page views on your single posts on a daily as well as overall basis. You can then display the page view count on individual posts and pages as well as display a list of most popular posts based on page views.

Contextual Related Posts:

Display a list of contextually related posts for the current post. You can select the number of posts to display and if you want to automatically display the related posts in your content / feed.

I’m still looking for translators for both these plugins. If you are interested in translating this plugin, please do contact me.

I’ll also be releasing an update to Where did they go from here? sometime this week with similar changes.

Just released two bug fix updates for two of my plugins:

Top 10

Track daily and total visits on your blog posts and display the count as well as popular posts.

Contextual Related Posts

Display a list of contextually related posts for the current post.

Changes to Contextual Related Posts:

• Fixed: Custom output was not detecting styles properly
• Fixed: Incorrect XHTML code was being generated when using special characters in the post title
• Added German translation

Changes to Top 10:

• Added: You can now use HTML in the counter display

Just put through updates for three of my plugins:

Contextual Related Posts

Display a list of contextually related posts for the current post. You can select the number of posts to display and if you want to automatically display the related posts in your content / feed.

Top 10

Count page views on posts and display a list of top posts by page views.

Where did they go from here?

This plugin will show “Readers who viewed this page, also viewed” links on your page. This is similar to Amazon’s product pages which state “Readers who have bought this, also bought”.

The first two plugin updates include a fix for the display of thumbnails using postmeta. The plugin didn’t recognise any field other that ‘post-image’. This has been fixed now.

Regarding Where did they go from here, I noticed a minor bug that could cause a clash with any other plugin that is using a similar function call. This one didn’t warrant a major fix, however I don’t want any blogs breaking out there!

I’ve just committed v1.5.1 for Top 10.

Top 10 will count the number of page views on your single posts on a daily as well as overall basis. You can then display the page view count on individual posts and pages as well as display a list of most popular posts based on page views.

Users of this plugin reported a problem with Top 10 not counting views in WordPress 2.9. I had changed the method of it counting views in WordPress 2.9. I noticed a clash with YARPP, which I have since resolved. In my testing, the page views count perfectly with YARPP installed.

If you notice any issues, please open a ticket in the support forums.

It’s Christmas time and this is my third gift to you this Christmas, the first being an update to Contextual Related Posts and the second being an update to Connections Reloaded.

I’ve just committed v1.5 for Top 10.

Top 10 will count the number of page views on your single posts on a daily as well as overall basis. You can then display the page view count on individual posts and pages as well as display a list of most popular posts based on page views.

The new version of Top 10 adds support for WordPress 2.9 thumbnails, with a fallback to display thumbnails using custom fields (configurable) and a default image in case both are missing. You can choose the location of the default image.

You can also configure the display. The default settings is an unordered list, but you can easily customize this to display an ordered list, divs, spans or just about any other HTML tag.

If you are using this plugin, do consider a donation.

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I have just uploaded updated versions of Top 10 and Where did they go from here?

What is Top 10?

Top 10 will count the number of page views on your single posts on a daily as well as overall basis. You can then display the page view count on individual posts and pages as well as display a list of most popular posts based on page views.

What is Where did they go from here?

When a visitor views a blog post, the plugin checks to see if the referrer is another blog post on your site. If this is the case, then the referring post is updated with a reference to this post. And, the process continues as the visitor moves through the blog. Thus, each post will display a list of links that other visitors went through from here. Hence, the name of the plugin!

Both these plugin have fixes which ensure they are perfectly compatible with WordPress 2.9, so this is a mandatory upgrade.

With Top 10, I have also added two new buttons which will allow you to reset the plugin counts.

The next version of both these plugins, as well as Contextual Related Posts, will support the new Post Image features of WordPress.

Read more about or download Top 10
Read more about or download Where did they go from here?

I’d like to announce that I have just updated my Top 10 plugin.

Top 10 will count the number of page views on your single posts on a daily as well as overall basis. You can then display the page view count on individual posts and pages as well as display a list of most popular posts based on page views.

This update adds a much requested feature, viz. the option to separately choose if you want to display the number of views on pages and posts. By default both options are turned on. You can change the setting in the options page in WP-Admin.

I have also modified the plugin for localisation. I’m looking for translators for the plugin. If you’re interested please contact me.