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2.3.2

• The ability to enable / disable the Ajax Update has been removed. It introduced a random bug that doubled the views count of some posts / pages. Will be added back when a fix is ready.
• Fixed a bug preventing the cat parameter from excluding categories (widget was not affected by this).
• FAQ section (Settings / WordPress Popular Posts / FAQ) updated.
• Added french translation. (Thanks, Le Raconteur!)

2.3.1

• Fixed bug caused by the sorter function when there are multiple instances of the widget.
• Added check for new options in the get_popular_posts function.
• Added plugin version check to handle upgrades.
• Fixed bug preventing some site from fetching images from subdomains or external sites.
• Fixed bug that prevented excluding more than one category using the Category filter.

2.3.0

• Merged all pages into Settings/Wordpress Popular Posts.
• Added new options to the WordPress Popular Posts Stats dashboard.
• Added check for static homepages to avoid printing ajax script there.
• Database queries re-built from scratch for optimization.
• Added the ability to remove / enable plugin's stylesheet from the admin.
• Added the ability to enable / disable ajax update from the admin.
• Added the ability to set thumbnail's source from the admin.
• Timthumb support re-added.
• Added support for custom post type (Thanks, Brad Williams!).
• Improved the category filtering feature.
• Added the ability to get popular posts from given author IDs.

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