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

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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.

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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

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

Am extremely pleased to announce a major upgrade to 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.

Changes:

• New: The plugin extracts the first image in the post and displays that if the post thumbnail and the post-image meta field is missing
• New: Display excerpts in the list
• New: Credit link to the CRP page added. You can choose to turn this off, though I would appreciate if you leave it on.
• Updated: All parts of the list are now wrapped in classes for easy CSS customisation

If you are using this plugin, please do consider a donation towards its development.

Read more and download Contextual Related Posts

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 am extremely pleased to announce my biggest release of Where did they go from here?

Have you seen Amazon.com’s product pages? They all have a “Readers who have bought this, also bought. So, why not implement this on your WordPress blog?

This plugin will show “Readers who viewed this page, also viewed” links on your page.

What’s new:

• New: Implementation for tracking hits even on blogs with non-standard WordPress installs
• New: Reset button to reset all browsing data
• New: Option to exclude pages in post list
• New: Choose if you want to blank out display or display a custom message
• New: The plugin extracts the first image in the post and displays that if the post thumbnail and the post-image meta field is missing
• Fixed: Postmeta detection for thumbnails
• Some optimisation and code cleaning for better performance

If you’re running WordPress on a non-standard install, i.e. if you have moved your wp-content or plugins folders from their standard locations, please do give this a shot. Do report any bugs if you come across any.

I’d like to thank Don Fischer for guiding me on this.

Also, do give this plugin a 5-star rating as well as vote for its compatibility on its WordPress Extend page.

Lastly, I am looking for translators. If you’ve made a translation of this plugin, do contact me.

If you’re using this plugin, do consider a donation.

Read more and download Where did they go from here?