A good substitute for Jetpack's Top Posts widget.

  • Original Review: I was hoping that by removing titles and excerpts and only showing the images, I could make this look like a grid. Not what I was looking for at all.

    EDITED REVIEW: My original review was 3 stars, but I’ve changed it to 5 for two reasons:
    1) Ajay was incredibly helpful in showing me how to alter the CSS so this plugin would show up as a grid and
    2) it worked! ??

    So now the plugin does exactly what I need it to do, which was to replace the Top Posts feature of Jetpack. I definitely recommend this as a lighter substitute.

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  • Plugin Author Ajay

    (@ajay)

    Chelsey,

    The plugin doesn’t come with an inbuilt grid style. Note that you have complete flexibility to customize the display as you might choose.

    I’ve been trying to get a grid style to work. Please check out the code below that you can add to your site. It works with Twenty 15 theme.

    https://gist.github.com/ajaydsouza/a54ce8a6ccd78871798c

    Thread Starter Chelsey

    (@cnhartman2)

    Thanks for the response, Ajay! I use the Sugar & Spice theme, do you think this will work with that?

    Plugin Author Ajay

    (@ajay)

    Chelsey, The only option is to test it and see. If you’d like to give this is a shot, please add it to your theme.

    I can look at your site once you do this.

    Thread Starter Chelsey

    (@cnhartman2)

    I’ve added it to my site (https://diybudgetgirl.com) and it’s still showing up as a list.

    Plugin Author Ajay

    (@ajay)

    Chelsey,

    I noticed that you have 

    .tptn_posts ul li,
.tptn_posts_daily ul li {
    float: center;

    Could you please change this to:

    .tptn_posts ul li,
.tptn_posts_daily ul li {
    float: left;

    Thread Starter Chelsey

    (@cnhartman2)

    Done. Sorry, I must have been playing around with it and forgot to change that back when it didn’t do anything.

    Plugin Author Ajay

    (@ajay)

    Chelsey,

    Does this resolve your issue? If so, would you reconsider the rating?

    Thread Starter Chelsey

    (@cnhartman2)

    It’s still showing them in a straight line, rather than a grid.

    Plugin Author Ajay

    (@ajay)

    Could you please set the padding to 0px

    .tptn_posts ul li, .tptn_posts_daily ul li {
  float: left;
  width: 50%;
  padding: 0px;
  list-style: none;
  list-style-position: inside;
  height: 120px;
  text-align: center;
  word-wrap: break-word;
}
    Thread Starter Chelsey

    (@cnhartman2)

    It worked! Thanks for the help! I’ve changed my review. ??

    Plugin Author Ajay

    (@ajay)

    Thank you very much ??

    I’m glad I was able to convince you that Top 10 is indeed a 5-star plugin!

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