To improve the performance of your WordPress site, the Top 10 plugin includes inbuilt caching. This guide will walk you through enabling and configuring these settings. Why Enable Caching? Caching helps reduce the load on your database and speeds up the delivery of popular posts to your users. By enabling caching, you ensure that your...
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...
Top 10 Pro v4.5.0 adds native “Popular Posts (Top 10)” elements for three popular page builders: WPBakery Page Builder, Elementor, and Bricks Builder. Each integration renders through the same Popular posts:Contextual Related PostsTop 10 – WordPress Popular Posts pluginBetter SearchHelp & SupportKnowledge BaseWordPress Plugins by WebberZoneTop 10 shortcodesContextual Related Posts shortcodeWordPress block development: Building multiple blocksWordPress...
Top 10 Pro includes a full WP-CLI command suite so you can manage counts, database tables, cache, settings, and cron jobs directly from the terminal — without touching the WordPress admin. All commands start with wp top10. Run any command with --help to see its full option list. Requirements Quick reference Command group What it...
Top 10 4.6.0 registers WordPress abilities for retrieving popular posts and view counts. Top 10 Pro also registers abilities for editing lifetime counts and clearing the cache. Requirements and access Abilities are available on WordPress 6.9 or later. Earlier versions continue to work without abilities. Enable Abilities API in Top 10 → Settings → Features....
Top 10 Pro enhances your WordPress admin experience with features like a dedicated admin bar menu, customizable dashboard visibility, control over post type columns, and a feed vs web views report. New Admin Bar Menu The new admin bar menu provides quick access to essential Top 10 features. You can view daily, total, and overall...
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...
Top 10 can be used in four ways to display the popular posts: Template Tags The below functions need to be added by editing your theme files where you wish to display them. Display the post count with <?php if ( function_exists( 'echo_tptn_post_count' ) ) { echo_tptn_post_count(); } ?> Display the overall most popular posts...
