WPP 6.3.0

This release includes the following changes:

If you're using a caching plugin on your website, clearing its cache after installing / updating to this version is highly recommended.

• Improves compatibility with newer versions of PHP 8 (thanks ispreview and dimal for the heads-up!)
• Introduces new shortcode to render views count (see Release notes for more details).
• Shares post_id value with render_image filter hook for more flexibility.
• Fixes a fatal error when the PHP extension mbstring is not installed.
• Updates wpp.min.js.

Release notes

WPP 6.2.1

This release includes the following changes:

• Fixes an issue where the shortcode would seem stuck at the loading animation.

WPP 6.2.0

This release includes the following changes:

If you're using a caching plugin on your website, clearing its cache after installing / updating to this version is highly recommended.

• The [wpp] shortcode has now the ability to load itself via AJAX.
• Fixes an issue where for certain server configurations the popular posts list would output garbled text.
• Fixes an issue where PHP would throw notices due to the usage of HTML5 tags.

Release notes

WPP 6.1.4

This release includes the following changes:

If you're using a caching plugin on your website, clearing its cache after installing / updating to this version is highly recommended.

• Fixes an issue where the [wpp] shortcode might output empty paragraphs under certain conditions.
• Reverts "uglification" of wpp.min.js which caused popular post list(s) not to load under certain conditions.
• Widget's deprecation notice has been reworded for clarity.
• Updates dependencies + minor code cleanup.

Release notes

WPP 6.1.3

This release includes the following changes:

• Hotfix: Fixes rare PHP fatal error in Admin.php (props to winetravelista and scotttripatrek!)

Release notes

WPP 6.1.2

This release includes the following changes:

If you're using a caching plugin on your website, clearing its cache after installing / updating to this version is highly recommended.

• Deprecation Notice: The WordPress Popular Posts "classic" widget is going away! If you're using the classic widget please replace it with the WordPress Popular Posts block or the [wpp] shortcode as soon as possible. See release notes for more details.
• Plugin now uses the Tax_Query class to filter popular posts by taxonomy, pretty much similar to how WP_Query does it.
• Fixes an issue where selecting the Tiny theme would override the heading of the popular posts list.
• Fixes an issue where taxonomy links would render an extra whitespace for some browsers.
• Fixes issue where when using a theme (eg. Cards) post titles would be unintentionally truncated.
• Adds decoding=async property to WPP's thumbnail.
• General PHPCS/WPCS code improvements.

Release notes

WPP 6.1.1

This release includes the following changes:

• Fixes a rare PHP fatal error that can occur during plugin activation.
• Block: adds links to documentation within the block form for ease of access.
• Updates dependencies.

Release notes

WPP 6.1.0

This release includes the following changes:

• Improves PHP 8.1 support.
• Adds new filter to modify the post date.
• Adds check to prevent the misuse of the Data Sampling feature (props to the JPCERT/CC team for reporting this issue).
• Updates dependencies.

Release notes

WPP 6.0.5

This release includes the following changes:

• Fixes yet another issue where excerpts may output broken HTML under certain conditions (thanks dxylott54!)
• Updates .pot file.

Release notes

WPP 6.0.4

This release includes the following changes:

• Block: improves logic when toggling certain settings.
• Block: adds back option to show post rating.
• wpp_get_views() is now compatible with Polylang/WPML.
• Updates dependencies.
• Updates .pot file.

Release notes