Top 10 Pro provides PHP functions to display or query popular authors from a theme or plugin. They are defined only when Popular Authors is enabled under Top 10 Settings – Features, so wrap calls in function_exists(). Each tptn_ function has a wzpa_ alias kept for sites moving from the retired Popular Authors plugin. See...
Top 10 Pro registers two Popular Authors shortcodes: one lists your most popular authors and one lists the most popular posts of a single author. They require Popular Authors to be enabled under Top 10 Settings – Features. When it is disabled, the shortcodes output nothing instead of showing raw shortcode text. The wzpa_ shortcodes...
Top 10 Pro includes two Popular Authors blocks, a classic widget, and a dashboard widget. They require Popular Authors to be enabled under Top 10 Settings – Features. Any setting a block or widget does not specify falls back to the defaults under Top 10 Settings – Popular Authors. Both blocks are listed under Widgets...
The standalone Popular Authors plugin is retired. Version 1.5.0 was its final release, and it will receive no further updates, including security updates. Popular Authors is now built into Top 10 Pro. Most of your setup carries over. The blocks were renamed and some developer hooks changed, so review the sections below before you remove...
Popular Authors ranks your site’s authors by the total views of their posts, using the counts tracked by Top 10 Pro. It replaces the retired standalone Popular Authors plugin. The settings below set the global defaults. Open Top 10 → Settings and click the Popular Authors tab. The tab appears only when Popular Authors is...
Popular Authors ships with two built-in visual styles plus an opt-out option for theme-authored styles. Styles are configured globally under Top 10 → Settings → Popular Authors and can be overridden per widget, shortcode, or block. Available styles Style keyDescriptionno_styleSkip loading any built-in CSS so your theme can fully control the markup.cardRender each author in...
Common questions about Popular Authors, a Top 10 addon. Why does the front end show “Please install and activate Top 10 plugin to display popular authors.”? Popular Authors depends on Top 10 v3 or above for its visit data, helper functions, and cache settings. Install and activate Top 10, then reload the page. How do...
Popular Authors is an addon for Top 10 and cannot function without it. Popular Authors aggregates the visit counts that Top 10 tracks and ranks your site’s authors by those counts. This article explains how the two plugins fit together. Requirements If Top 10 is missing or inactive, the admin area shows a warning on...
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.org and requires Top 10 v3 or above to be installed and active. WordPress install (The easy way) Manual install Installing via WP CLI If you are using WP CLI, install...
