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:

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.