Now I Have a Blog TooNow I Have a Blog Too Christopher Finke is a software engineer at Mahalo. He is available for birthday parties and bar mitzvahs.

Posts tagged with 'Plugins'

Feed Statistics 1.1: Movin' On Up

Friday, July 6th, 2007

I've just uploaded a big update to the Feed Statistics plugin for Wordpress. This new version allows you to track which posts your subscribers are reading and which links they're clicking on. It also has better feed reader statistics, and a more organized administration menu.

Submenus of the Feed Administration menu

See the updated homepage for a full writeup of the new features.

To install this plugin, download the zip file of the latest version here, and overwrite feed-statistics.php in your blog's wp-content/plugins/ directory if you downloaded an earlier version. If you're downloading it for the first time, just copy it to that directory and activate it from the Plugin administration menu.

More Feed Statistics coming

Thursday, July 5th, 2007

I'm working on an update to the Feed Statistics plugin for Wordpress that will add the following features:

  • The ability to track the number of views for individual posts in the feed
  • Tracking of clickthroughs for links in your posts
  • Better reporting of the feed readers used to access your feed

I'm running this new version on my blog right now to watch for bugs, and I'll have a release ready in a day or two. Here are some previews of the new features:

Track the popularity of your posts

Track clickthroughs on links in your feed

Any requests for other stats to be tracked in the next version? One feature I'm already planning is allowing the stats for individual posts to be accessed and graphed over time.

Feed Statistics: Now with more statistics

Tuesday, June 26th, 2007

I've released the next iteration of the Feed Statistics plugin for Wordpress. This version (1.0.4) adds statistics on which Web-based feed readers your subscribers are using, which you can view on the Options > Feed Statistics page.

Web-based feed reader statistics

Download the zip file of the newest version here, and overwrite feed-statistics.php in your blog's wp-content/plugins/ directory if you downloaded an earlier version. If you're downloading it for the first time, just copy it to that directory and activate it from the Plugin administration menu.

Feed Statistics Plugin Fixed

Thursday, June 21st, 2007

If you had downloaded the Feed Statistics plugin for Wordpress and couldn't use it because of an error during activation, version 1.0.3 is for you. The "Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error" message was being caused by my usage of PHP's short open tags, which I should have known are not enabled everywhere. Thanks to Veg for the help that led to the fix.

Download the zip file of the newest version here, and overwrite feed-statistics.php in your blog's wp-content/plugins/ directory if you downloaded an earlier version. If you're downloading it for the first time, just copy it to that directory and activate it from the Plugin administration menu.

Feed Statistics: Now with fewer bots!

Wednesday, June 20th, 2007

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, the plugin will now count subscribers represented by Yahoo!'s FeedSeeker bot, which reports its subscriber count in a slightly different format than other feedbots.

There are also a few small performance upgrades in this version (1.0.2), but I haven't been able to duplicate the "Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error" error some users have been seeing. If you get this error when activating the plugin, e-mail me at cfinke@gmail.com and we can figure it out together.

Download the zip file of the newest version here, and overwrite feed-statistics.php in your blog's wp-content/plugins/ directory if you downloaded an earlier version. If you're downloading it for the first time, just copy it to that directory and activate it from the Plugin administration menu.