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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.

• January 29th, 2007

  Social Traffic Statistics

  Until URL Fixer got Dugg last week, I hadn’t had a good real-life example for my Social Traffic Monitor WordPress plugin. What follows is an analysis of the traffic my blog received from social news and bookmarking sites late last week, as recorded by the Social Traffic Monitor plugin. This is the chart that the [...]

• 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 25th, 2007

  Hackers and Downloaders

  Welcome, readers of Lifehacker and Download Squad. I hope you find URL Fixer as useful as I do. Feel free to check out my other extension and software projects, and if you find any of it interesting, go ahead and subscribe to my feed. I typically write about Firefox extensions, my job at Netscape, 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 [...]