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I am a design engineer at Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, working with the Theme Team to address the design concerns of millions of WordPress users.

• June 20th, 2007

  Feed Statistics: Now with fewer bots!

  I’ve updated the Feed Statistics plugin for WordPress again, this time to stop it from counting bots as users. If you’ve been running the plugin already, it will take a few days for the bots already counted as users to filter out. So your subscriber count may drop a little, but on the plus side, [...]

• June 19th, 2007

  Feed Statistics: Updated Already?

  As is customary when you release some code and then immediately go to bed, Feed Statistics 1.0 had a small bug in it that made it non-functioning on about half of WordPress blogs, depending on the permalink structure being used. I’ve updated the plugin to version 1.0.1 to address this problem. Download it here, and [...]

• June 18th, 2007

  Feed Statistics Plugin for WordPress

  Feed Statistics is a plugin I’ve written for WordPress blogs that monitors and displays the number of people who read your blog via the RSS feed. That’s all it does for now, and it does it well. In future versions, I may add more statistics and functionality (like displaying which feed readers your readers are [...]