WebberZone Top 10 — Popular Posts

4.2.1

• 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.

4.2.0

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