Changelog

• This is the final release of Popular Authors. The plugin will continue to work but will no longer receive updates or support, including security updates.
• This feature is now built into Top 10 Pro: https://webberzone.com/plugins/top-10/pro/
• Modified: Compatibility bump for the latest versions of WordPress and PHP.

Full Changelog: v1.4.0...v1.5.0

Changelog

Release post: https://webberzone.com/announcements/popular-authors-1-4-0

• Features:
  • New option to display post count in the Popular Authors block.
  • Added a dashboard widget to display popular authors on the WordPress dashboard.

Full Changelog: 1.3.0...1.4.0

Release post: https://webberzone.com/announcements/popular-authors-1-3-0

• Features:

  • Introducing a new feature to display popular posts by author, available as a Gutenberg block, shortcode, and template tag. This allows you to fetch and showcase popular posts for a specific author.
    • Use the wzpa_display_top_posts_by_author template tag to display the popular posts associated with a selected author easily.
    • The shortcode parameters are documented here.
    • The block is documented here.
  • Introducing a new post_type parameter lets you display popular authors for specific post types. This feature is accessible via the shortcode and block, and can also be configured in the Settings panel if you have Top 10 Pro installed.

• Modifications:

  • Rewritten Popular Authors block for apiVersion 3 and better modular code.
  • Passing the styles parameter to the block will enqueue the style.

• Bug fixes:

  • Cache setting clashed with Top 10.

Full Changelog: 1.2.1...1.3.0

Changelog:

• Features:

  • Introducing a new feature to display popular posts by author, available as a Gutenberg block, shortcode, and template tag. This allows you to fetch and showcase popular posts for a specific author.
    • Use the wzpa_display_top_posts_by_author template tag to display the popular posts associated with a selected author easily.
    • The shortcode parameters are documented here.
    • The block is documented here.
  • Introducing a new post_type parameter lets you display popular authors for specific post types. This feature is accessible via the shortcode and block, and can also be configured in the Settings panel if you have Top 10 Pro installed.

• Modifications:

  • Rewritten Popular Authors block for apiVersion 3 and better modular code.
  • Passing the styles parameter to the block will enqueue the style.

• Bug fixes:

  • Cache setting clashed with Top 10.

Full Changelog: 1.2.1...1.3.0-beta1

• Bug fixes:
  • Removed incorrect shortcode tptn_views.
  • Styles Handler used the wrong filter.
  • Renamed cache setting to avoid conflict with Top 10.

Full Changelog: v1.2.0...1.2.1

Release post: https://webberzone.com/announcements/popular-authors-1-2-0/

Popular Authors has been rewritten to use classes and autoloading.

• Features:

  • New style options: Choose between a Card Layout or Left Thumbs
  • New filter: wzpa_custom_template which can be used to override the Popular Authors HTML output
  • New filters: wzpa_query_fields, wzpa_query_join, wzpa_query_where, wzpa_query_groupby, wzpa_query_orderby and wzpa_query_limits to modify the Popular Authors mySQL query

• Bug fixes:

  • Block gave validation errors for the Daily range and Hour range fields when blank

What's Changed

• Implemented OOP by @ajaydsouza in #15

Full Changelog: v1.1.1...v1.2.0

Changelog:

Popular Authors has been rewritten to use classes and autoloading.

• Features:

  • New style options: Choose between a Card Layout or Left Thumbs
  • New filter: wzpa_custom_template which can be used to override the Popular Authors HTML output
  • New filters: wzpa_query_fields, wzpa_query_join, wzpa_query_where, wzpa_query_groupby, wzpa_query_orderby and wzpa_query_limits to modify the Popular Authors mySQL query

• Bug fixes:

  • Block gave validation errors for the Daily range and Hour range fields when blank

Installation

1. Download the popular-authors.zip file from this release post
2. Visit Plugins in your Admin Area
3. Hit the Add New button next to the Plugins heading
4. Hit the Upload button next to the Add Plugins heading
5. Select the popular-authors.zip file that you downloaded and hit Install Now
6. In the next screen choose Replace current with uploaded
7. This should replace the plugin with the latest version. You can verify this by going back to the Plugins page and checking the version number

Full Changelog: v1.2.0-beta1...v1.2.0-beta2

Changelog:

Popular Authors has been rewritten to use classes and autoloading.

• Features:

  • New style options: Choose between a Card Layout or Left Thumbs
  • New filter: wzpa_custom_template which can be used to override the Popular Authors HTML output
  • New filters: wzpa_query_fields, wzpa_query_join, wzpa_query_where, wzpa_query_groupby, wzpa_query_orderby and wzpa_query_limits to modify the Popular Authors mySQL query

• Bug fixes:

  • Block gave validation errors for the Daily range and Hour range fields when blank

Installation

1. Download the popular-authors.zip file from this release post
2. Visit Plugins in your Admin Area
3. Hit the Add New button next to the Plugins heading
4. Hit the Upload button next to the Add Plugins heading
5. Select the popular-authors.zip file that you downloaded and hit Install Now
6. In the next screen choose Replace current with uploaded
7. This should replace the plugin with the latest version. You can verify this by going back to the Plugins page and checking the version number

Full Changelog: v1.1.1...v1.2.0-beta1

Security fix

Full Changelog: v1.1.0...v1.1.1

Release post: https://webberzone.com/blog/popular-authors-1-1-0

• Features:

  • New Gutenberg block. Find it by searching for popular authors or author
  • New settings tab added to Top 10 Settings page where global settings for this plugin can be configured
  • New setting to display the author avatar
  • New setting to cache the output. This option respects the cache settings of Top 10 and uses the similar transient names

• Enhancements/Modifications:

  • An admin notice will be displayed if Top 10 v3 and above is not installed

Full Changelog: v1.0.1...v1.1.0