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2.6.0

• New feature: added %post_thumbnail% to show the post thumbnail! Please read the FAQ. Thanks to Rocco Agostino.
• Language: added romanian, thanks to Web Geek Sciense.
• Language: added vietnamese, thanks to Lê Hoàng Phương.
• Language: updated catalan, thanks to Ferran Rius.
• Language: updated italian, thanks to Edoardo Maria Elidoro.
• Language: updated serbian, thanks to Предраг Љубеновић.
• Language: updated spanish, thanks to Fitoschido, Fzamudio, Sergio Arriaga, hhlp, simon.
• Language: updated turkish, thanks to Hamit Selahattin Naiboğlu.

2.5.2

• Fixed a PHP notice.

2.5.1

• Fixed missing closing tag when there aren't any popular posts. Thanks to sebmeric.
• Strip HTML tags from the post titles. Please let me know if this breaks something for you.

2.5.0

• New feature: %post_author% tag, to show the post author. Thanks to Jean-Paul Horn, http://www.iphoneclub.nl
• New feature: added an option to exclude posts written by some specific authors. Thanks to Jean-Paul Horn, http://www.iphoneclub.nl
• Added Serbian translation, thanks to Саша Стефановић.
• Completed Turkish translation, thanks to Engin BAHADIR and cornetto.
• Added docs about new WordPress.com Jetpack plugin.

2.4.2

• Added Catalan translation & updated Spanish translation, thanks to Octavi Ripollés i Querol.

2.4.1

• Added some check to make this plugin more robust with unexpected data.

2.4.0

• New Feature: added support for [wp_popular_posts] shortcode! Please read the FAQ. Thanks to Tim Nicholson for this.
• New Feature: added 'none' option to list tag, to improve customizability.

2.3.0

• New Feature: added support for subcategories. Now if you set a category, it will also show posts inside its subcategories.
• New feature: %post_time%, it allows to show the date/format.
• New Feature: added a new Magic Number option. If the plugin shows less links than expected, try to raise this number. Please read docs.
• Added spanish translation. Many thanks to Fabio (Coco).
• Added (partly) turkish translation. Many thanks to zeugma.
• Improved compatibility with WordPress 2.9.
• Fixed an issue in the uninstall process.

2.2.0

• New Feature: added the new %post_comments% tag in the format to show how many comments a post has.
• New Feature: now you can choose to show the cached version only to the anonymous (not logged in) users.
• Some minor fixes.

2.1.0

• New Feature: implemented a cache system. This will improve the speed of the plugin. If you are using the function WPPP_show_popular_posts() for non-widget-ready themes, please read the FAQ.
• Fixed an issue with %post_category%. Thanks to Isaac | GoBlogger.
• Better compatibility with plugins like qTranslate. Thanks to Blutarsky for this.

2.0.2

• Regression: you couldn't set an empty title anymore.
• Regression: You couldn't add HTML tags to the widget title.
• Fix: more robust security checks.

2.0.1

• New feature: now you can use %post_category% in your format, to show the post's category.
• New feature: now you can show posts from a specific category.

2.0.0

• New complete rewrite, using WP 2.8 Widget API. Note: from now on, this plugin will require at least WP 2.8
• New feature: now you can add multiple widgets with their own different settings!
• New feature: now you can exclude specific posts/pages by IDs.
• New feature: don't show posts with a view count under x
• New feature: now you can choose between unordered (ul tag) or ordered (ol tag) list.
• Fix: now private posts are excluded from the list.
• Fix: now deleted posts shouldn't appear anymore.
• Fix: W3C Validation fix, thanks to Jonathan M. Hollin
• Fix: fixed an issue with titles containing special characters/quotes.
• Fix: removed the shortcodes from the excerpt, thanks to Peter.

1.3.5

• Added a workaround for a cache issue in stats plugin.

1.3.4

• Hopefully fixed a problem on some blogs, when displaying only posts or only pages.

1.3.3

• Updated compatibility with WP 2.6

1.3.2

• New option: now you can limit the length of the links.

1.3.1

• Fixed an incompatibily with PHP < 5.0.

1.3

• Now the titles & permalinks are taken from the database, so they should be updated.
• Arabic/Greek etc. language issues should be fixed now.

1.2

• New feature: Added multilanguage support.
• Added italian language
• New feature: now you can show the first n characters of the content of each post, through the %post_excerpt% parameter. Just add it to your format.

1.1.2

• Added a fix for a bug in WordPress Stats.

1.1.1

• Fixed some unclosed tags, which caused issues in IE7 configuration of the widget.
• Removed (actually it's only skipped, not fixed yet) a nasty MySQL error if there aren't any "top posts".

1.1

• New feature: now you can choose to show only posts, only pages, or both (default).

1.0.1

• Added CSS class "wppp_list", so that you can now customize the styling in your stylesheet.

1.0

• New feature: now you can customize the format of the links (see FAQ)
• New Feature: it's now possible to show the number of views of the post (see FAQ)
• Fix: fixed utf-8 encoding issue with WP >= 2.5
• Fix: now the widget should better integrate with your theme
• Change: Note: the way to call WPPP_show_popular_posts() to integrate the plugin in non-widget-ready themes has changed. See FAQ.

0.4.0

• Added arguments to the function WPPP_show_popular_posts(). Now you can customize several parameters even if your theme doesn't support widgets.

0.3.0

• New feature: now you can set the length (in days) of the desired time frame.
• Fixed a bug with titles containing foreign characters.

0.2.2

• Added support for non-widgets-ready themes.

0.2.1

• Fixed a bug with quotes.

0.2.0

• Added widget configuration.

0.1.0

• First working release with the widget.