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| Someone Please Rescue the Popularity Contest WordPress Plugin Posted: 15 Jan 2009 12:00 AM PST Possibly my favorite WordPress plugin of all time has always been the Popularity Contest WordPress plugin from Alex King. Back when WordPress 2.5 first came out, there was a minor scare where Popularity Contest quit working on new WordPress blogs, but a fix was eventually published and once again all was right with the world. Now that WordPress 2.7 has been released, I noticed the other day while setting up a couple new niche blogs that Popularity Contest appears to again be broken on fresh installations of WordPress 2.7. My WordPress installations which already had Popularity Contest installed and were upgraded to WordPress 2.7 seem to still be working fine. While checking for updates on the authors page, I noticed that it appears that Popularity Contest (along with Alex’s other plugins) are no longer supported and will not receive any future updates. In fact, the last update was over a year ago. The only exception I know of is the Share This plugin, which I believe was purchased by someone who has continued to improve the plugin. My hope with this post is that someone will either take over supporting this WordPress plugin (if Alex is willing to hand it over to someone), or that someone will create a similar plugin for the WordPress community. Heck, something like this that is supported and gets regular feature updates might even be something I would happily pay a one time fee for! Anyone having luck with Popularity Contest and brand new WordPress 2.7 installations? Related posts:
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