Title: Populating Plugin with Data
Last modified: December 2, 2016

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# Populating Plugin with Data

 *  [corpsyssubs](https://wordpress.org/support/users/corpsyssubs/)
 * (@corpsyssubs)
 * [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/populating-plugin-with-data/)
 * Hi,
 * I am relatively new to WordPress and looking to use this plugin on my website.
   I’d like to make changes to the design/styles in my Staging environment before
   deploying to Production; however, I obviously do not have any hits or traffic
   to the Staging site, or at least not enough to have any “top” posts display in
   the widget. Is there some threshold of # of hits before a post will display?
 * Also, what is your recommendation re: how best to design the ‘Top Posts’ widget
   and preview it, prior to pushing to the live site? Thanks in advance!

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 *  Plugin Author [Ajay](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ajay/)
 * (@ajay)
 * [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/populating-plugin-with-data/#post-8510023)
 * You can do what I typically do when testing the plugin. Change the settings to
   count admin and editor visits in the Top 10 settings page.
 * Then simply browse your site as you normally do and it will track hits.

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 * Last activity: [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/populating-plugin-with-data/#post-8510023)
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