I am a design engineer at Social Traffic Monitor WordPress Plugin
Note: watch the Social Traffic Monitor section of my blog for information on updates to this plugin.
Social Traffic Monitor is a plugin for WordPress blogs that monitors your blog traffic for activity coming from social news or bookmarking sites.
When someone clicks on a link to your blog on one of the major social news or bookmarking sites (currently Digg, Netscape, Reddit, Newsvine, Fark, Slashdot, Del.icio.us, and StumbleUpon), the plugin begins to log the visits to that page. This data can then be displayed in the form of a graph of visitors per hour.
Each vertical line represents one hour, and you can customize how many hours the graph shows. You can also choose to display and link to the top referrers below the graph – a great way to prompt other users to return to those sites and vote for your story.
To install, unzip social-traffic.php and upload it to the wp-content/plugins/ directory of your blog. Activate the plugin from your Administration panel, and then, using the theme editor, add this line of code wherever you want to display the chart and/or referrers:
<?php social_traffic(); ?>
Alternatively, you can supply some custom HTML to display along with the chart and/or referrers, if they are displayed by calling the plugin like so:
<php social_traffic('<div>%s</div>'); ?>
The “%s” will be replaced by the output created by the plugin. In this instance, the div tags will only be output if the plugin has something to display.
Note: this plugin will only display the graph and/or referrers on single-post pages, and it won’t display anything unless that post has been accessed from one of the social news sites.
The latest version of Social Traffic Monitor is 1.2 (released on 2007-01-26).
October 25th, 2007 at 9:27 am
Hi. Looks good from what I see of it on your site, but I can’t get it working on mine. I use WP 2.3. I have created a widget and added the code to it but all it shows is the title ‘Social Traffic’. I have tested it by clicking a link to an article of mine on bookmarked on Reddit but still no output.
September 26th, 2008 at 3:12 pm
wow, this is a great plugin, found it while searching for a torrent stats plugin. your plugin will come in real handy for me as I receive a lot of traffic from social networking sites, esp fark and SU.
October 14th, 2008 at 11:17 am
good plugin. Actually i want to find a stumbleupon plugin that can automatically post when I have new post on my blog
January 8th, 2009 at 6:48 am
Perfect idea! I am going to try to work with your plugin.
Question: is it piossible to add other social sites and remove some from list?
April 8th, 2009 at 2:28 am
Excelent plugin, I’ll use it on my network of sites.
May 10th, 2009 at 8:48 am
I love it! That is way cool man! The steps weren’t that complicated too, which is great.
May 15th, 2009 at 11:14 am
I have bookmarked and I hope to use it in the near future. Anyway thanks
August 16th, 2009 at 2:02 am
Great script and useful
November 18th, 2009 at 3:40 pm
This is a cool tool and something I will probably push for to my users that has wordpress.
Any plans on developing this further?
Anyway, Thank you!
February 23rd, 2010 at 2:37 am
Does this plugin still work, please?
May 2nd, 2010 at 5:46 am
Does this plugin still work :|
June 24th, 2010 at 8:56 am
I’m wondering if this plugin is working as well. Had it up on my site now for a few weeks and no stats are showing.
August 22nd, 2010 at 6:32 pm
Kool WordPress Mod :)
October 23rd, 2010 at 5:02 pm
Does this plugin still work?
February 13th, 2011 at 7:54 am
Ultimate tool to monitor the social network inbound links
June 9th, 2011 at 9:20 am
Hey Christopher, this plugin looks really good and professional. I’ve just no started using it and I already love it.
July 5th, 2011 at 3:32 pm
Very nice. Congratulations for your plugin. It saved me some time :)
July 5th, 2011 at 3:33 pm
Really, is it still works???
October 14th, 2011 at 8:13 pm
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