Popular Authors ships four PHP functions you can call from a theme, child theme, or plugin to display or fetch author data. All functions live in the global namespace and require Top 10 to be active. wzpa_list_popular_authors() Render or return the popular authors list. Parameters: $args (array, optional) — accepts the full set of arguments...
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...
Popular Authors registers two Gutenberg blocks that you can drop into any post, page, or template. Both blocks render server-side and use the visit data tracked by Top 10. Popular Authors block Block name: popular-authors/popular-authors. The block renders the most popular authors on your site and can be used inside the Site Editor if you...
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...
Popular Authors registers two shortcodes that let you embed the most-popular authors list and a list of top posts for a given author anywhere in your content. Visit counts are drawn from Top 10. If you are unfamiliar with shortcodes, read the Shortcode entry in the WordPress Codex. Use this shortcode to display the popular...
Popular Authors stores all of its configuration inside Top 10‘s settings. There is no standalone settings page for Popular Authors. Open Top 10 → Settings and click the Popular Authors tab to access the settings below. Every setting is prefixed with wzpa_ in the database and is read through tptn_get_option(). Per-instance overrides set on the...
