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WordPress Popular Posts

With WordPress Popular Posts, you can show your visitors what are the most popular entries on your blog.

2.2.1

  • Quick update to fix error with All-time combined with views breaking the plugin.

2.2.0

  • Featured Image is generated for the user automatically if not present and if there's an image attached to the post.
  • Range feature Today option changed. Replaced with Last 24 hours.
  • Category exclusion query simplified. Thanks to almergabor for the suggestion!
  • Fixed bug caused by selecting Avg. Views and All-Time that prevented WPP from getting any data from the BD. Thanks Janseo!
  • Updated the get_summary function to strip out shortcodes from excerpt as well.
  • Fixed bug in the truncate function affecting accented characters. Thanks r3df!
  • Fixed bug keeping db tables from being created. Thanks northlake!
  • Fixed bug on the shortcode which was showing pages even if turned off. Thanks danpkraus!

2.1.7

  • Added stylesheet detection. If wpp.css is on theme's folder, will use that instead the one bundled with the plugin.

2.1.6

  • Added DB character set and collate detection.
  • Fixed excerpt translation issue when the qTrans plugin is present. Thanks r3df!.
  • Fixed thumbnail dimensions issue.
  • Fixed widget page link.
  • Fixed widget title encoding bug.
  • Fixed deprecated errors on load_plugin_textdomain and add_submenu_page.

2.1.5

  • Dropped TimThumb support in favor of WordPress's Featured Image function.

2.1.4

  • Added italian localization. Thanks Gianni!
  • Added charset detection.
  • Fixed bug preventing HTML View / Visual View on Edit Post page from working.

2.1.1

  • Fixed bug preventing widget title from being saved.
  • Fixed bug affecting blogs with WordPress installed somewhere else than domain's root.
  • Added htmlentities to post titles.
  • Added default thumbnail image if none is found in the post.

2.1.0

  • Title special HTML entities bug fixed.
  • Thumbnail feature improved! WordPress Popular Posts now supports The Post Thumbnail feature. You can choose whether to select your own thumbnails, or let WordPress Popular Posts create them for you!
  • Shortcode bug fixed. Thanks Krokkodriljo!
  • Category exclusion feature improved. Thanks raamdev!

2.0.3

  • Added a Statistics Dashboard to Admin panel so users can view what's popular directly from there.
  • Users can now select a different date format.
  • get_mostpopular() function deprecated. Replaced with wpp_get_mostpopular().
  • Cache maintenance bug fixed.
  • Several UI enhancements were applied to this version.

2.0.2

  • "Keep text format and links" feature introduced. If selected, formatting tags and hyperlinks won't be removed from excerpt.
  • Post title excerpt html entities bug fixed. It was causing the excerpt function to display more characters than the requested by user.
  • Several shortcode bugs fixed (range, order_by, do_pattern, pattern_form were not working as expected).

2.0.1

  • Post title excerpt now includes html entities. Characters like ÅÄÖ should display properly now.
  • Post excerpt has been improved. Now it supports the following HTML tags: a, b, i, strong, em.
  • Template tag wpp_get_views() added. Retrieves the views count of a single post.
  • Template tag get_mostpopular() re-added. Parameter support included.
  • Shortcode bug fixed (range was always "daily" no matter what option was being selected by the user).

2.0.0

  • Plugin rewritten to support Multi-Widget capabilities
  • Cache table implemented
  • Shortcode support added
  • Category exclusion feature added
  • Ajax update added - plugin is now compatible with caching plugins such as WP Super Cache
  • Thumbnail feature improved - some bugs were fixed, too
  • Maintenance page added

1.5.1

  • Widget bug fixed

1.5.0

  • Database improvements implemented
  • WP-PostRatings support added
  • Thumbnail feature added

1.4.6

  • Bug in get_mostpopular function affected comments on single.php
  • "Show pageviews" option bug fixed
  • Added "content formatting tags" functionality

1.4.5

  • Added new localizable strings
  • Fixed Admin page coding bug that was affecting the styling of WPP

1.4.4

  • HTML Markup customizer added
  • Removed some unnessesary files

1.4.3

  • Korean and Swedish are supported

1.4.2

  • Code snippet bug found

1.4.1

  • Found database bug affecting only new installations

1.4

  • Massive code enhancement
  • CSS bugs fixed
  • Features added: Time Range; author and date (stats tag); separate settings for Widget and Code Snippet

1.3.2

  • Permalink bug fixed

1.3.1

  • Admin panel styling bug fixed

1.3

  • Added an Admin page for a better management of the plugin
  • New sorting options (sort posts by comment count, by pageviews, or by average daily views) added

1.2

  • Added extra functionalities to WordPress Popular Post plugin core

1.1

  • Fixed comment count bug

1.0

  • Public release

Requires: 2.8 or higher
Compatible up to: 3.2.1
Last Updated: 2011-12-5
Downloads: 328,242

Average Rating

4 stars
(251 ratings)

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