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

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Overview:

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.

Features:

Counts daily and total page views on single posts and pages
Display the count on the single posts and pages
Customize the text that can be displayed
Display a list of daily and/or overall popular posts by page count. The number can be customized.
Sidebar widgets available for daily popular and overall popular posts.
View list of daily and/or overall popular posts from within the dashboard itself
Clean uninstall if you choose to delete the plugin from within WP-Admin
Works with caching plugins like WP-Super-Cache
Supports post thumbnail images

Requirements:

WordPress 2.5 or above

Installing

Download Top 10.
Extract the contents of top-10.zip to wp-content/plugins/ folder. You should get a folder called top-10.
Activate the Plugin in WP-Admin.
Goto Options > Top 10 to configure.
Goto Appearance > Widgets to add the Daily Popular / Popular Posts sidebar widget to your theme

Options

Below is the options screen as you would see it when you activate the plugin.

You can customize how the count is displayed. Use %totalcount% to display the total count and %dailycount% to display the daily count.

Enable / disable display of post count in content on single posts and pages. If you don’t enable the first option, then you will need to add <?php if(function_exists('echo_tptn_post_count')) echo_tptn_post_count(); ?>.

In order to display the most popular posts, you will need to add <?php if(function_exists('tptn_show_pop_posts')) tptn_show_pop_posts(); ?>.

In order to display the most popular posts, you will need to add <?php if(function_exists('tptn_show_daily_pop_posts')) tptn_show_daily_pop_posts(); ?>.

Alternatively, use the sidebar widgets to display the overall or daily top posts.

By default the plugin adds a link back to this page in your popular posts lists. You can choose to uncheck that above. However, it would be great if you could give me some linky love.

ChangeLog:

1.8.1
- Fixed: Dashboard widgets linking
1.8
- 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

View previous changes »

To Do:

Popular Posts by Comments
Styled lists for comments display
Turn off list on select pages or posts
Total count of all posts option
Comment below and tell me what you would like to see added to this plugin

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