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How can I customise the output?

Several customization options are available via the Settings page in WordPress Admin. You can access this via Settings » Top 10

The plugin also provides you with a set of CSS classes that allow you to style your posts by adding code to the style.css sheet. In a future version, I will be adding in CSS support within the plugins Settings page.

The following CSS classes / IDs are available:

• tptn_related: ID of the main wrapper div. This is only displayed on singular pages, i.e. post, page and attachment

• tptn_related: Class of the main wrapper div. If you are displaying the related posts on non-singular pages, then you should style this

• tptn_title: Class of the span tag for title of the post

• tptn_excerpt: Class of the span tag for excerpt (if included)

• tptn_thumb: Class of the post thumbnail img tag

• tptn_list_count: Class of the span tag for post count in top posts list

• tptn_counter: Class of the div tag that wraps the post count that is driven by the field "Format to display the count in: " under 'Output Options'

For more information, please visit http://ajaydsouza.com/wordpress/plugins/top-10/

How does the plugin select thumbnails?

The plugin selects thumbnails in the following order:

1. Post Thumbnail image: The image that you can set while editing your post in WordPress » New Post screen

2. Post meta field: This is the meta field value you can use when editing your post. The default is post-image

3. First image in the post: The plugin will try to fetch the first image in the post

4. Video Thumbnails: Meta field set by Video Thumbnails

5. Default Thumbnail: If enabled, it will use the default thumbnail that you specify in the Settings screen

The plugin uses timthumb to generate thumbnails by default. Depending on the configuration of your webhost you might run into certain problems. Please check out the timthumb troubleshooting page regarding permission settings for the folder and files.

Manual install

You may choose to not display the post count automatically. If you do so, then in order to display the post count, 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(); ?>.

You can also use the WordPress Widgets to display the popular posts in your sidebar / other widgetized areas of your theme.

Can this plugin replace Google Analytics?

Never. This plugin is designed to only track the number of pageviews on your blog posts and display the same. It cannot replace Google Analytics or any other full fledged statistics application.

How does the scheduled maintenance work maintenance work?

When you enabled the scheduled maintenance, Top 10 will create a cron job that will run at a predefined interval and truncate the wp_top_ten_daily table. Note: If you enable this option, WordPress will execute this job when it is scheduled the first time