Over the Christmas break, I spent quite a bit of time rationalising my WordPress plugins including closing several plugins which I decided I won’t be updating, especially those with very lower viewers. I’m hoping to be a bit more regular in updating my WordPress plugins this year and also fleshing out a much pending documentation for all of them. I’ve managed to be fairly active on the updates and I updated four plugins since the start of the year. All these have had their respective release posts on the WebberZone blog. If you’re here for just my plugin updates, I recommend subscribing to the newsletter there. Better Search I released…
Top 10 v2.4.0
This has been cross-posted on the WebberZone blog. I’ve been working on Top 10 v2.4.0 for a long time where the main focus of this release has been to get a more compatible tracker. Today, I’m happy to say that I have pushed through the release and you can now upgrade your favourite popular posts plugin as you normally would from within your WordPress Dashboard Updates screen. This version adds two new features, fixes several bugs, has cleaner code as per WordPress Coding Standards and also deprecates some functions. New tracker Two months back I released v2.3.2 which fixed a security issue and also required me to remove the faster…
Top 10 – Popular Posts for WordPress v2.1.0
Following on the heels of Contextual Related Posts v2.1.0 from last week, I’ve released Top 10 – Popular Posts for WordPress v2.1.0 with several bug fixes and many new features. If you’re using this plugin and looking for support, please do not post a comment below, but instead create a new thread in the WordPress.org support forum or create a new issue in Github. Fix blog_id 0 errors Top v2.0 introduced a bug where in some cases, hits on some posts were recorded in the database with an ID of 0. Also new installs didn’t have their database properly set up for this. v2.1.0 fixes both these issues. Additionally, I’ve added a new…
Top 10 Popular Posts for WordPress v2.0.1
It’s been nearly 6 years since I released v1.0 of Top 10. What started as a simple plugin to track your popular posts and display your top posts has evolved into one of the most popular “popular posts” plugins for WordPress used on thousands of blogs today! Versions between 1.0 and 1.9.10 have added support for thumbnails, custom post types, custom styles and more. Today I unveil the latest, the greatest and the best version of Top 10 – The Popular Posts plugin for WordPress. v2.0.1 brings long pending support for WordPress multisite, better site compatibility and tracking, a cleaner admin interface and support for addons as well as some…
Top 10 v1.9.10.x
I pushed an update for Top 10 a few days ago which brings you some cool new features including the ability to edit counts, set thumbnails and improved shortcode options. Following along the lines of Contextual Related Posts, Top 10 v1.9.10 brings a new meta box on your Edit Post / Page or Custom post type screen that allows you to set the custom thumbnail as well as edit the post count for the post. The meta box will use the same meta field as specified in the General Settings. If you’re using the default field name i.e. post-image and you’re using my other plugins Contextual Related Posts and Where did…
Top 10 v1.9.9.1
A few hours back I uploaded a major release of Top 10, the top popular posts plugin for WordPress. This release adds several new features and I have hopefully squashed many pending bugs. First of all, the admin interface has received a major overhaul. It should flow better with the rest of your WordPress interface and should be more responsive especially on smaller screens and mobile devices. I’ve also cleaned up the text on many of the options and added explanations to several of the options in a hope to address many of the repetitive questions that I have been receiving. This release also includes new shortcodes and a better…
Top 10 v1.9.8
I uploaded v1.9.8 and 1.9.8.1 of Top 10 plugin for WordPress. If you’re an existing user, you’ll be able to upgrade the plugin from within your WordPress Admin interface itself. Changes in this version include: New: Custom post support. Choose which custom post types to display in the top posts New: More display options. Select which archives you want to display the post count New: Option to open links in new window New: Option to add nofollow attribute to links New: Option to exclude posts by ID in the list of top posts being displayed New: Option to prevent display of the Visit Count on posts by ID New: Option…
Top 10 v1.9.3 and v1.9.4
Following quick on the heels of Contextual Related Posts v1.8.7, I’ve uploaded Top 10 v1.9.3 to the plugin repository. 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 is an important update that fixes a potential XSS vulnerability in the settings page plus some bug fixes. I’ve also added two new classes for styling the widgets. If you’ve any questions please do use the support forums, as they are the best…
Top 10 v1.9 and v1.9.1
The latest version of my popular posts plugin Top 10 is now available for download. Existing users can quickly upgrade this from within your WordPress Dashboard. New users can get the plugin by searching for “Top 10” from Plugins > Add New. 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. New WordPress widgets If you’ve been using the Top 10 WordPress widgets, you’ll notice that you can now customise the…
Contextual Related Posts and Top 10 updated
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…
