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A few minutes after i installed Wordpress 2.6 on one of my blogs I regretted it. There is no turning back despite my concerted efforts. I cannot log into any of my Wordpress blogs where I have installed Wordpress 2.6 or higher. The mobile browser just reverts back to admin log in screen over and over again. I also cannot comment.
I will see ig I can find some kind of workaround.

I refuse to pay the INSANE price for Iphone service. despite its rockin browser. The cost for iphone is not that bad- 199 but you pay an additionally 60.00 on top of your existing plan- and even that is not unlimited.
I pay 15.00 a month for my ENTIRE plan including unlimited browser and unlimited texts as part of our Family share plan. ( we have an old plan and DH pays 25.00 and I pay 15.00.

So… I upgraded so a Samsung Instinct this week- labeled as an Iphone killer ( its not) I have been disappointed more by what it can’t do than wowed by what it can.

The browser is so-so. The GPS is very slow and prone to dropping. You pay for everything. Live TV might be cool- but you have to pay 20.00 just for the ability ti access it. Same with Sirius Radio. Comes with no free games.
Battery life is not that great.
Kids like watching YouTube videos in the car and I like the vibrating haptic screen and Qwerty keyboard much more than iTouch /iPhone.
Load time to turn of is crazy slow. Camera is shitty. No flash and no zoom and no way to edit pics on the phone. At almost 500.00 I expected more.
My biggest disappointed bar none is the lack of POP3 mail. I can’t believe I am tethered to webmail or I can pay 8.00 a month to use yahoo account on this phone.
You can play mp4 videos and mp3s. Sound through mono speaker is terrible.
I am also FUMING that the mobile browser on this phone will not work with one of my busier blogs because its using Wordpress 2.6.
I wil persevere a while longer before I give up!

I have also tried other workarounds such as using a web based client like writemyblog.com and using image upload to Flickr with now luck. Ready to chuck phone out the window…

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I have pretty much given up getting Daily Top 10 to work with upgrade to Wordpress 2.6 . IN the meantime i am trying similar Popularity Contest - which I think track overall popularity and not daily.
What I like is being able to see o the fly what posts are “breaking out” and popular at any given moment. Usually the same 50 post stay in the top 50 however once in a while something will break out and I can use that information for other posts or blogs and being on the edge of a trend.

There were issues with Wordpress 2.5 and the Popularity Contest Plugin and I the issues falls over onto Wordpress 2.6 as well.
The best way to get it to work is to use a hacked version here . Worked right out of the box for me and i the 1/3 hour I have had it installed it has been fine.
I wold not recommend you upgrade to Wordpress 2.6 now. I have had numerous problems with my plugins and constant server errors, etc.

I am regretting this upgrade more than any upgrade I have ever done up til now.

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One of my favourite plugins, the Daily Top 10 Posts Wordpress Plugin , does not work in recently released Wordpress 2.6.

I am out of sorts now I adore this plugin. I went ahead and installed Wordpress 2.6 and went ahead and installed on one of my main blogs and I very disappointed that it does not work. Not only does it not display top 10 ( or however many you define) it “breaks” the admin dashboard as well.

I doubt developer will fix.

You need to deactivate the plugin to get your dashboard working…
ARGH. Why didn’t I wait to install new version like I have ALWAYS done !!!

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I quite like the Daily Top 10 Posts Plugin. I find it quite useful to take a quick peel at what posts are doing very well or breaking out. The plugin keeps track of post page views in a 24 hours day stating at midnight.

You can display post count for all to see as well as place code in sidebar or widget to show the top 10 posts. I don’t do this and set the daily top 10 post to “noshow” in the snippet of code in readme file for the plugin.

You can view your “top 10 posts” in the dashboard it will list them in descending order as well as give you view count.

I have found it useful on a couple of high traffic sites to show more than my top 10 posts using the Daily Top Ten plugin and set it to show me the top 50 but you can set for any number quite easily.

How To Increase Number of Posts to Show Using Daily Top Ten Plugin

Go into the the plugin to edit. Find two snippets of cod that define the number of posts to display:

The first set of code displays the numebr of posts in your dashboard:
$widgets = $wpdb->get_results("SELECT * from $table_name inner join $table_posts on $table_posts.ID=$table_name.postnum WHERE time = '$nowisnow' and postcount > 0 and post_status = 'publish' ORDER BY postcount DESC LIMIT 10");
and change the DESC LIMIT 10 to DESC LIMIT 25
or whatever number you like.

Find the next snippet and do same:
Thsi snippet dispalys posts on your site for all to see .
$widgets = $wpdb->get_results("SELECT * from $table_name_all inner join $table_posts on $table_posts.ID=$table_name_all.postnum WHERE postcount > 0 and post_status = 'publish' ORDER BY postcount DESC LIMIT 10");

Change the DESC LIMIT 10 to DESC LIMIT 25 ( or number you choose)

When you go to you dashboard you should see your new top 25 (or 50, etc) listed.

You can also reduce the number of posts to display with Daily Top 10 plugin. You may only want to show you top 3 or 5 posts to visitors in your sidebar. Just change the second number to the value you want to display in sidebar.

Why would knowing your top posts be useful to you?
Take your top 10 posts an expand on the idea. If your page one best brownie recipes is ding well try best squares or best cookies.
If you are aware of what people are looking for then you can use this information to expand your blog and your traffic/readership.

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