Version 2.4.0 beta 1

• Features:
  • New tracker using a properly enqueued .js file. Two inbuilt options to use query variables or ajaxurl to process the counts
  • Shortcode and the widget now have an added parameter for 'offset'. This is useful if you would like to display different widgets/shortcodes but not always start from the first post
• Bug fixes:
  • Attachments now work with the widget and elsewhere
  • New tracker now works when jQuery is loaded in the footer
  • Don't add tracker code when previewing in customizer
  • Doesn't report an error if no author is assigned to a post
• Deprecated:
  • tptn_add_tracker and tptn_add_viewed_count have been deprecated. These should no longer be needed with the new tracker option.
  • wick script in Settings page which was used for fetching category slugs. You should now use the category name (prompted automatically). Slugs will be automatically converted into names.

Version 2.3.0

• Features:
  • Preliminary support for PolyLang
  • Search box and post type filter added in Admin » View Popular Posts screen
  • Link to Daily Popular posts screen under Top 10 menu in admin area
  • post_types parameter now supports comma-separated list of post types. To fetch all built-in post types use 'all'
  • New option to use the external and more efficient javascript file for tracking
  • New function tptn_add_tracker to manually include the tracking code. This is useful if your theme doesn't have the_content function that Top 10 filters to add the tracker code
• Enhancements:
  • Viewing drafts will no longer increment the counter
  • When using the Left Thumbs style, each widget instance includes the CSS code to display the correct thumbnail size
• Bug fixes:
  • Missing DISTINCT keyword in query resulting in duplicate entries in some cases
  • PHP Notice in Widget on empty search and 404 pages
  • Incorrect notice that Contextual Related Posts is installed on Edit Posts pages
  • tptn_show_daily_pop_posts() without arguments did not display daily posts
  • Using Exclude categories returned incorrect counts and excluded non-posts
  • Incorrect count on the Admin » View Popular Posts screen causing incorrect pagination
  • Incorrect thumbnail size being pulled out in some instances
  • Multiple widget instances incorrectly used the same cache
  • Incorrect text domain was initialised

Version 2.2.4

• Enhancements:
  • Changed text domain to top-10 in advance of translate.wordpress.org translation system
  • Improved support for WPML. If available, same language posts will be pulled by default. To restrict to the same language add this code to your theme's functions.php file

Version 2.2.3

• Bug fixes:
  • Shortcode with "exclude_categories" argument works again

Version 2.2.2

Bug fix release for array declarations

Version 2.2.1

• Fixed array declaration to support PHP < 5.4

Version 2.2.0

• Features:
  • Caching system using the Transients API. By default the cache is refreshed every hour
  • Styles interface lets you select between No styles, Left Thumbs (previously the default style) and Text Only
  • Option to limit posts only with a specified date range
  • Option in Top 10 meta box to exclude display of popular posts in widget if needed
  • Option in Top 10 meta box to exclude post from popular posts list
  • Cleaner interface to view popular posts in the admin area
• Enhancements:
  • strict_limit is true by default for get_tptn_pop_posts()
  • Option to turn off the meta box for everyone or just non-admins
  • Contributors & above can also update the visit count in the meta box if this is enabled for them
  • Category exclusion now works via a filter function vs. multiple lookups, thereby reducing the number of database queries
• Bugfixes:
  • Potential bug when the $wp variable was not detected in rare situations
  • In rare cases category exclusion failed when term_id didn't match term_taxonomy_id
• Deprecated:
  • ald_tptn_rss: Use tptn_rss_filter instead
  • ald_tptn_hook deprecated and renamed to tptn_cron_hook
  • tptn_manage and tptn_manage_daily which were used to render the admin popular posts screens

Version 2.1.0

• New: Button in Top 10 settings page to merge posts across blog ID 0 and 1
• New: Function & filter get_tptn_pop_posts that can be used to fetch the popular posts as an object or array. Perfect if you want to write custom code in your theme
• New: Support for WPML to return the correct language ID. Thanks to Tony Flags' code snippet.
• New: Filter tptn_list_count to modify the formatted list count. See a working example
• New: Post types can now be selected in the widget. This allows you to select top posts by post type
• Modified: Plugin will attempt to pull the correct size image when fetching the first image in a post
• Modified: Deprecated "Always display latest post count in the daily lists"
• Modified: timthumb has been deprecated. The script is no longer packaged within Top 10
• Fixed: Bug in tracking code when not using Ajax
• Fixed: Bug in admin column did not check for the blog_id
• Fixed: Bug where default thumbnail location was not correctly saved
• Fixed: Incorrect thumbnail was pulled on attachment pages
• Fixed: blog_id column of the database is correctly initialised as DEFAULT '1'

Version 2.1.0 Beta

• New: Button in Top 10 settings page to merge posts across blog ID 0 and 1
• New: Function & filter get_tptn_pop_posts that can be used to fetch the popular posts as an object or array. Perfect if you want to write custom code in your theme
• New: Support for WPML to return the correct language ID. Thanks to Tony Flags' code snippet.
• New: Filter tptn_list_count to modify the formatted list count. See a working example
• Modified: Plugin will attempt to pull the correct size image when fetching the first image in a post
• Modified: Deprecated "Always display latest post count in the daily lists"
• Modified: timthumb has been deprecated. The script is no longer packaged within Top 10
• Fixed: Bug in tracking code when not using Ajax
• Fixed: Bug in admin column did not check for the blog_id
• Fixed: Bug where default thumbnail location was not correctly saved
• Fixed: Incorrect thumbnail was pulled on attachment pages
• Fixed: blog_id column of the database is correctly initialised as DEFAULT '1'

Version 2.0.3

• New: Options to choose if you want to delete the Top 10 options and/or data when deleting the plugin
• Fixed: Metabox update did not work properly in v2.0
• Fixed: Duplicate include files
• Modified: In the mySQL tables, the blog_id default value is set to 1