Add to Footer allows you to add any HTML or JS code to the footer for your WordPress theme. This ensures that you don’t need to keep adding the same code in case you change your theme. Simply enter the settings once and you’re good to go!

Changes in v1.2:

• Major upgrade: Removes support for Reinvigorate and Apture.
• Modified: Updated Google Analytics and Statcounter codes
• Modified: Redesign of admin interface

Existing users can upgrade directly from within their WordPress admin area. If you aren’t an existing user, grab the plugin from the plugin page.

Add to Feed is a feed enhancement plugin that allows you to easily add a copyright notice and custom text/HTML to your WordPress blog feed. The custom text can be entered before and/or after the content of your blog post.

Changes in v1.2

• Modified: Redesigned admin interface
• Modified: Plugin comes disabled by default. Visit the admin page to enable
• Fixed: php warnings

Existing users can update the plugin from within their admin interface. If you are new to this plugin, check out the plugin page.

If you are looking for more power, check out Add to All, which allows you to add content to your theme’s header and footer as well.

My plugin Better Search just got better. v1.2 includes better template support, redesigned admin page, better WordPress widget support, etc. Please backup your database before upgrading.

Better Search replaces the default WordPress search engine with a more powerful search engine. Visitors will find more relevant search results of search terms. You can fine tune results by giving the title or the content more weighting.

Changes in 1.2:

• Updates for better search template compatibility. New template included in this release
• Quick links added in Plugins page in WP-Admin
• Relevance score is now displayed as a percentage
• Fixed: Daily search terms were not being cleared
• Modified: Default search colours for the heatmap are grey and black instead of blue and red
• Modified: Plugin will not add a link to Better Search homepage by default
• Modified: New WordPress widget to display the popular searches in your sidebar
• Added: New template file based on Twenty Eleven WordPress theme

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.

TwitterCounter plugin has been updated to v1.5. The plugin allows you to integrate TwitterCounter.com badges on your blog.

Changes:

• Added: Twitter Button with Photo
• Modified: Better compatibility with the latest versions of WordPress. If you are using the sidebar widgets, please re-add them to your theme under Appearance > Widgets
• Modified: Twitter Widget has been renamed to Twitter Widget

Read more and download TwitterCounter >

After a long long time, I have updated my plugin Top 10. The plugin is a powerful way to track daily and total visits on your blog posts and display the count as well as popular posts.

v1.7 is a much needed updated at includes better support for WordPress 3.x. Main changes include:

• Added: Excludes posts in the top lists from select categories
• Modified: Performance improvements
• Modified: Better compatibility with the latest versions of WordPress. If you are using the sidebar widgets, please re-add them to your theme under Appearance > Widgets

If you have been using an older version of the plugin, I suggest upgrading to v1.7 mainly due to the performance improvements. I have a few updates that I’d like to test out to improve performance still further, especially on heavy traffic blogs.

There are also several features that I intend to add in as time permits.

If you are already a user of the plugin, you can upgrade it directly from your Plugins page in WP-Admin.

Read more and download Top 10

After many many months, I have finally updated one of my WordPress plugins.

Where did they go from here has been updated to v1.5

Changes:

• Fixed: Compability problem with WordPress blog in the subdirectory
• Added: Option to excludes posts from certain categories to be displayed

If you’re a translator and interested in translating this plugin into different languages, do drop me an email.

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 pushed through an update of my Top 10 plugin

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.

Changes:

• Added: Added support for excerpts and detection of first image in the post
• Added: Daily posts are tracked using the blog time instead of server time
• Fixed: On the first visit, display 1 instead of 0
• Fixed: Fixed uninstall script

To do:

I still have a few features that I plan to add to this plugin

• Popular posts by comments
• Better support for non-standard installs where the plugin directory has been moved
• Tracking unique visits only

Visit Top 10 – A Page Counter and Popular Posts plugin for WordPress