Popular Authors

Popular Authors WordPress plugin is the ultimate addon for Top 10, the best plugin to showcase your most popular posts on WordPress. With Popular Authors, you can also highlight the top authors on your blog by page views and give them the recognition they deserve. Popular Authors lets you display the most popular authors using different methods. You can use the Gutenberg block, the shortcode, the widget or the template tag to insert the popular authors list anywhere on your site. You can also customize the appearance and settings of each method to suit your needs. Popular Authors also gives you the flexibility to choose the time range for calculating the page views. You can show the popular authors of all time, or limit it to a specific period, such as last day, last week, last month, etc. This way, you can keep your popular authors list fresh and dynamic. Popular Authors is a must-have addon for Top 10 if you want to boost your blog's engagement and credibility. By showcasing your most popular authors, you can attract more readers, increase social shares, and build a loyal community around your blog. Features

• Blocks: Add the Gutenberg blocks by searching for popular authors or author and customize its settings and style.
• Multi-widget capable: You can have multiple widgets of Popular Authors on your sidebar or footer, each with its own title, number of authors, time range, and more.
• Custom Time Range: List popular authors within a specific time range (eg. last 1 day, last 7 days, last 30 days, etc.) or show the all-time favorites.
• Shortcodes: Use the [wzpa_popular_authors] shortcode to display your most popular authors anywhere in your posts or pages and [wzpa_display_top_posts_by_author] to display popular posts by author.
• Template tags: Use wzpa_list_popular_authors() to display the popular authors programmatically in your theme files or plugins and wzpa_display_top_posts_by_author() to display popular posts by author.
• Inbuilt Styles: You can select between two inbuilt styles or create your own using CSS.

Contribute Popular Authors is also available on Github. If you've got some cool feature that you'd like to implement into the plugin or a bug you've been able to fix, consider forking the project and sending me a pull request. Please don't use that for support requests.

WordPress install (the easy way)

1. Navigate to Plugins within your WordPress Admin Area
2. Click "Add new" and in the search box enter "Popular Authors"
3. Find the plugin in the list (usually the first result) and click "Install Now"

Manual install

1. Download the plugin
2. Extract the contents of popular-authors.zip to wp-content/plugins/ folder. You should get a folder called popular-authors.
3. Activate the Plugin in WP-Admin.

Usage Popular Authors can be used in four ways:

1. Block: Add a Gutenberg block by searching for popular authors or author
2. Widget: Simply drag and drop "Popular Authors" widget into your theme’s sidebar and configure it
3. Shortcode [wzpa_popular_authors], so you can embed it inside a post or a page
4. Template tag: Use wzpa_list_popular_authors() to display the popular authors anywhere on your theme

1.3.0 Release post: https://webberzone.com/announcements/popular-authors-1-3-0

• Features:
• Introducing a new feature to display popular posts by author, available as a Gutenberg block, shortcode, and template tag. This allows you to fetch and showcase popular posts for a specific author.
• Use the wzpa_display_top_posts_by_author template tag to display the popular posts associated with a selected author easily.
• The shortcode parameters are documented here.
• The block is documented here.
• Introducing a new post_type parameter lets you display popular authors for specific post types. This feature is accessible via the shortcode and block, and can also be configured in the Settings panel if you have Top 10 Pro installed.
• Modifications:
• Rewritten Popular Authors block for apiVersion 3 and better modular code.
• Passing the styles parameter to the block will enqueue the style.
• Bug fixes:
• Cache setting clashed with Top 10.

For previous changelog entries please visit Github Releases page