My popular posts code no longer works with 2.8.6

Have you run your query in Phpmyadmin to see if there’s a problem with the query?

No longer works? .. how, wrong results, no results, mixed results? .. error message? …

Have you run your query in Phpmyadmin to see if there’s a problem with the query?

You can’t put PHP tags or PHP specific code in there… only SQL valid code..

In simple terms, just replace each instance of $wpdb-> with wp_ or your given prefix if not default..

And any variables with a test value…