Wordpress Popular Posts

Things like how many entries to show, whether to display or not comments count and/or pageviews for each entry listed, and to show (or not) an excerpt of each post's title, can be configured.

Installation:

Unpack and upload it to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress.

What is new in this release:

• Adds minute time option for caching.
• Adds wpp_data_sampling filter.
• Removes jQuery's DOM ready hook for AJAX views update.
• Adds back missing GROUP BY clause.
• Adds check for jQuery.
• Fixes invalid parameter in htmlspecialchars().
• Switches AJAX update to POST method.
• Removes href attribute from link when popular post is viewed.
• Removes unnecesary ORDER BY clause in views/comments subquery.
• Translates category name when WPML is detected.
• Adds list of available thumbnail sizes to the widget.
• Other minor bugfixes and improvements.
• Fixes WPML compatibility bug storing post IDs as 0.
• Removes wpp-upload.js since it was no longer in use.
• Minor query optimizations.

What is new in version 3.2.1:

• Adds minute time option for caching.
• Adds wpp_data_sampling filter.
• Removes jQuery's DOM ready hook for AJAX views update.
• Adds back missing GROUP BY clause.
• Adds check for jQuery.
• Fixes invalid parameter in htmlspecialchars().
• Switches AJAX update to POST method.
• Removes href attribute from link when popular post is viewed.
• Removes unnecesary ORDER BY clause in views/comments subquery.
• Translates category name when WPML is detected.
• Adds list of available thumbnail sizes to the widget.
• Other minor bugfixes and improvements.
• Fixes WPML compatibility bug storing post IDs as 0.
• Removes wpp-upload.js since it was no longer in use.
• Minor query optimizations.

What is new in version 3.1.1:

• Adds check for exif extension availability.
• Rolls back check for user's default thumbnail.

What is new in version 3.0.1:

• Fixes bug on wpp_get_views.
• Sustitutes WP_DEBUG with custom debugging constant.

What is new in version 2.3.3:

• Minimum WordPress version requirement changed to 3.3.
• Minimum PHP version requirement changed to 5.2.0.
• Improved Custom HTML feature! It's more flexible now + new Content Tags added: {url}, {text_title}, {author}, {category}, {views}, {comments}!.
• Added ability to exclude posts by ID (similar to the category filter).
• Added ability to enable / disable logging visits from logged-in users.
• Added Category to the Stats Tag settings options.
• Added range parameter to wpp_get_views().

What is new in version 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.

What is new in version 2.1.5:

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

What is new in version 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.

What is new in version 2.0.1:

• Post title excerpt now includes html entities. Characters like �� should display properly now.
• Post excerpt has been improved. Now it supports the following HTML tags: .
• 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).

Requirements:

• WordPress 3.3 or higher