It’s been a couple of years since I developed the Most Popular Tags plugin, and I’m extremely happy to announce that it has been downloaded over ten thousand times from the WordPress plugin directory. Special thanks to anyone that’s tried it or, even better, liked it.

The Senke des Chaos’ blog has a post containing a nice extension to the Most Popular Tags WordPress plugin: the ability to add a link to a full tag cloud page — in case you only want to show a few tags in the widget itself.

I’m considering merging these changes into the original plugin, but for now, take a look at the extension if you are interested in the added functionality.

I’m excited for the upcoming release of WordPress 3, and have been testing my Most Popular Tags plugin to ensure that it works properly with the new version. Things are going smoothly, and if any bugs appear during testing with the final 3.0 platform, I expect they will be quick fixes. When WP 3 is available to the masses, I’ll update the information on the plugin directory page / bang out a quick patch shortly thereafter.

I’ve updated the plugin with two new features: the ability to select a separator if using a “flat” format, and a random ordering option. Some code cleanup and optimization has also been done.

Visit the plugin’s page on WordPress.org for more info.

Version 1.1 of the Most Popular Tags WordPress plugin has now been released. This point release adds support for absolute font units such as millimeters, centimeters, inches and picas. I’ve also updated the wording used in the plugin to be more descriptive.

The latest version of the plugin can be downloaded from the WordPress Plugin Directory (or, if you have an older version already installed on your blog, you can simply use the plugin update function from inside your WordPress install).

As promised (well, a little earlier than promised), version 1.0 of my Most Popular Tags plugin for WordPress is available for download from the WordPress Plugin Directory. This version requires WordPress 2.8 or higher, and adds some new features, including the ability to have many active instances of the widget.

Be sure to check the project page for more information.