Popular Authors

Requires: WordPress 6.3 and Top 10 v3.0.0

Tested up to: 6.7

License: GPL-2.0+

Plugin page: Popular Authors home page | WordPress.org listing

Discover and appreciate your blog’s most popular authors, a simple and powerful addon for Top 10 - Popular Posts for WordPress.

Description

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.

Screenshots

Popular Authors Widget

More screenshots are available on the WordPress plugin page

Installation

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

Frequently Asked Questions

Check out the FAQ on the plugin page.

If your question isn’t listed there, please create a new post at the WordPress.org support forum. It is the fastest way to get support as I monitor the forums regularly.

About this repository

This GitHub repository always holds the latest development version of the plugin. If you’re looking for an official WordPress release, you can find this on the WordPress.org repository. In addition to stable releases, latest beta versions are made available under releases.