Installing Popular Authors

Popular Authors is a Top 10 addon that ranks your site’s authors by page views tracked by Top 10. Popular Authors is hosted on WordPress.orgOpens in a new window and requires Top 10 v3 or above to be installed and active.

WordPress install (The easy way)

  1. Install and activate Top 10Opens in a new window if you have not already.
  2. Navigate to Plugins within your WordPress admin area.
  3. Click Add New and in the search box enter Popular Authors.
  4. Find the plugin in the list and click Install Now.
  5. Activate the plugin from the Plugins screen.

Manual install

  1. Download the plugin zipOpens in a new window from WordPress.org.
  2. Extract the contents of popular-authors.zip to the wp-content/plugins/ folder. You should get a folder called popular-authors.
  3. Activate the Plugin in WP-Admin under the Plugins screen.

Installing via WP CLI

If you are using WP CLIOpens in a new window, install and activate the plugin by running:

wp plugin install popular-authors --activate

To network activate on a multisite install, run:

wp plugin install popular-authors --activate-network

Popular Authors integrates with Top 10 and stores all of its settings inside Top 10’s own settings page. There is no standalone settings page for Popular Authors. After activation:

  1. Open Top 10 → Settings in your WordPress admin.
  2. Click the Popular Authors tab to configure defaults, styles, and HTML wrappers.
  3. Add the popular authors list anywhere on your site using the block, shortcode, widget, or template tag.

If Top 10 v3 is not active, Popular Authors displays an admin notice and the output is replaced with the text Please install and activate Top 10 plugin to display popular authors.

See Popular Authors and Top 10 integration for details on how the two plugins work together.

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