Recently Popular Getting Some Much Deserved Attention

The Recently Popular WordPress plugin is finally getting some much deserved attention.  I know most of you are using the latest stable tag, 0.4.8.3, however some of you have begun using 0.5 from the trunk.  To be sure nothing happens to any of you I’ve branched trunk to 0.6.  So, if you’re daring and interested look that up in the branches folder.

Coming in the 0.6 release will be a settings page that will allow you to delete counts older than a time that you specify.  I’m also hoping to come up with a CPU-friendly way to specify an automated daily clean-up of all counts older than a given period.

Comments from the blog post have made it abundantly clear that activating the plugin and the widget separately was a poor idea.  They will be combined in this release.

The query that adds the counts will be re-examined, specifically the indexes that exist on our table and how they interact with the stock tables and their indexing during the query that sums up counts.

The plugin will be tested in WordPress 2.9.2, and listed as such in the directory.

This will also be a major clean-up release.  After eight months of not working on the project it is clear that there’s a dearth of comments in the source.  That will be corrected.

So in closing, thanks to everyone for your patience.