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 overwrite feed-statistics.php in your blog's wp-content/plugins/ directory if you downloaded version 1.0.

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 using - that kind of thing), but for now, it's dead-simple. Download and installation instructions are at the Feed Statistics homepage.

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 I've added the option to supply a formatting string for the plugin's output. What this means is that you can now call the plugin like this:

	<php social_traffic('<div>%s</div>'); ?>

and the the plugin will replace the "%s" with its output, but only if it has something to display; otherwise, it will display nothing at all. This allows you to add borders, positioning data, or just your own custom code to the plugin's output. (Calling social_traffic(); is equivalent to calling social_traffic("%s");.)

To upgrade, simply download and unzip version 1.2 and upload the included social-traffic.php to your wp-content/plugins/ directory.

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.

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 that post. When it has at least one visit logged for a post, it displays a graph of visitors per hour, as well as a list of referrering sites and how many visitors each sent your way.

The full writeup and download are available over here; now all I have to do is write something in my blog that is interesting enough to get submitted to Digg or Netscape...