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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 21st, 2007

  Feed Statistics Plugin Fixed

  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 [...]

• 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 [...]

• January 26th, 2007

  Social Traffic Monitor 1.2

  After giving it a workout this week with all the visitors to my blog from Digg and StumbleUpon, I’ve made some changes to the Social Traffic Monitor plugin for WordPress, and I’m releasing version 1.2. Since version 1.1, I’ve added StumbleUpon as a social news/bookmarking source, fixed a few bugs with logging non-social-referring sites, and [...]

• January 11th, 2007

  Social Traffic Monitor 1.1

  I have updated the Social Traffic Monitor WordPress plugin to support tracking traffic for WordPress “pages” as well as posts. You can always download the newest version from the plugin’s homepage.

• January 3rd, 2007

  Social Traffic Monitor: A WordPress Plugin

  I’ve just put the finishing touches on version 1.0 of my first WordPress plugin, the Social Traffic Monitor. In a nutshell, it checks incoming traffic for visitors from social news sites (e.g., Netscape, Digg, Reddit) and when a post on your blog starts getting traffic from these sites, it begins to log each visit to [...]