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• Modifications:

  • Taxonomy Suggest script removed from Settings API. Metabox also uses Tom Select for the lookup of the category field in CRP Pro.

• Fixes:

  • CSS improvements for left-thumbs and grid-thumbs styles.

Full Changelog: 4.2.1...4.2.2

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• Security:

  • Fixed REST API permission checks to prevent unauthorized exposure of post passwords in edit context.

• Fixes:

  • Fixed a bug with the "Clear cache" button in the Tools page.
  • Fixed thumbnail location restrictions to properly support Grid thumbnails style in addition to Left thumbnails.
  • Improved JavaScript logic for style-based thumbnail location validation with better error handling and fallback mechanisms.

What's Changed

• Develop by @ajaydsouza in #180

Full Changelog: 4.2.0...4.2.1

Full Changelog: 4.2.0...4.2.1-beta1

Release post: https://webberzone.com/announcements/top-10-v4-2-0/

• New:

  • Settings wizard to guide initial configuration and review existing settings
  • Network-wide dashboard with aggregated multisite statistics
  • [Pro] High-traffic tracking mode with status validation panel
  • [Pro] Copy settings between multisite network sites
  • [Pro] Compact “Top 10 Views Overview” dashboard widget
  • [Pro] Option to disable the Admin Bar menu
  • [Pro] Maintenance setting to override data retention period

• Improvements:

  • [Pro] Improved dashboard chart bar click-through to open the Popular Posts screen filtered to that day
  • Updated Settings API to version 2.7.1
  • Improved media handler with recursion protection and more robust processing
  • Media Handler now supports the FIFU WordPress plugin for featured image detection.
  • Improved Tools page statistics display and caching
  • Wrapped Import/Export and Tools sections in postbox containers for consistent UI

• Developer / Internal:

  • Refactored popular posts queries for improved performance and WordPress VIP compatibility
  • Updated caching behaviour for dynamic exclusions
  • Refactored database operations into a dedicated Database class
  • Updated Freemius SDK to version 2.13.0

• Fixes:

  • Fixed Top_Ten_Query handling of the date_query argument
  • Fixed activation redirects on single-site installs within multisite networks
  • Fixed exclude_current_post behaviour when caching is enabled
  • Fixed live-edit count updates in multisite statistics

Full Changelog: 4.1.1...4.2.0

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• Bug fixes:
  • Fixed an issue where shortcode attributes were not properly sanitized.

Full Changelog: 4.1.0...4.1.1

Full Changelog: 4.1.0...4.1.1-beta1

Release post: https://webberzone.com/announcements/top-10-v4-1-0/

• Features:

  • Import data from the WordPress Popular Posts plugin.
  • [Pro] Query Optimization: Add MySQL MAX_EXECUTION_TIME directive to prevent long-running queries from consuming excessive server resources. Configurable via settings and the top_ten_query_max_execution_time filter.
  • [Pro] Enhanced Popular Posts RSS feeds with category and post type filtering, available via URL parameters and configurable via dedicated settings.
  • Admin Dashboard:
    • Smart chart visualization: Automatically switches to an area chart for datasets with more than 100 data points.
    • [Pro] Clicking on a column in the Popular Posts chart will display the most popular posts for the selected day.

• Modifications:

  • Updated ChartJS and replaced Moment adapter with Luxon.
  • When any of the Top 10 tables is missing, an admin notice is displayed. The plugin also automatically recreates the missing tables.
  • Introduced the wz_top_ten() function to return the Main instance of Top 10.

• Bug fixes:

  • Resolved issue where tables were not automatically created during plugin activation.
  • Fixed issue where the popular posts feed always displayed the post's full content even when Excerpt was selected under Reading settings.
  • Fixed "Not found" error when accessing the Daily Popular Posts feed.

Full Changelog: 4.0.4...4.1.0

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• Features:

  • Import data from the WordPress Popular Posts plugin.
  • [Pro] Query Optimization: Add MySQL MAX_EXECUTION_TIME directive to prevent long-running queries from consuming excessive server resources. Configurable via settings and the top_ten_query_max_execution_time filter.
  • Admin Dashboard:
    • Smart chart visualization: Automatically switches to an area chart for datasets with more than 100 data points.
    • [Pro] Clicking on a column in the Popular Posts chart will display the most popular posts for the selected day.

• Modifications:

  • Updated ChartJS and replaced Moment adapter with Luxon.
  • An admin notice is displayed when any Top 10 table is missing. The plugin will also automatically recreate the missing tables.

• Bug fixes:

  • Resolved issue where tables were not automatically created during plugin activation.
  • Fixed issue where the popular posts feed always displayed the post's full content even when Excerpt was selected under Reading settings.

Full Changelog: 4.0.4...4.1.0-RC1

• Modifications:

  • Updated Freemius SDK to v2.11.0.

• Bug fixes:

  • Set correct type for $settings_api variable to Settings_API.

Full Changelog: 4.0.3...4.0.4

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• Modifications:
  • Support plugin dependencies tag.
  • Updated Freemius SDK to v2.10.1.
  • Optimized Numbered List format.

Full Changelog: 4.0.2...4.0.3