Category: Plugins
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Import your Reddit activity into WordPress
I try to maintain a copy of all of my social media activity in a single WordPress-powered archive. Twitter, Facebook, foursquare, Reddit, Usenet, chat logs: all searchable in one place via a single search box. Or, I can just scroll back in time, using Jetpack’s Infinite Scroll module. It’s heavenly. To import my activity from…
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Import your chat transcripts into WordPress
Problem: You have years’ worth of chat (AIM/MSN/Adium/IRC) transcripts saved on your computer, and you’d love to stroll down memory lane and reread some of them, but how? Manually open each one in your browser or chat program?? There’s got to be a better way! Solution: Install IM-porter, the WordPress plugin that imports your instant…
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Inline Preview Plugin for WordPress
Problem: When creating a post in WordPress, previewing your post in a separate tab can be slow and/or complicated. Solution: Show the preview right next to the editor. Inline Preview is a plugin for WordPress that adds a zoomed out preview of the current post next to the post editor when the user clicks Preview…
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Formategory: A WordPress Plugin Four Years in the Making
I didn’t spend any of that time improving the name.
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Wanted: WordPress Post Template Plugin
I’m in need of a WordPress plugin that lets you specify a template for posts based on their category. For example, I might want to postscript all of my posts about URL Fixer with a link to the most recent version, or prefix an explanation about what exactly “Mozilla” is to my Firefox posts. I…
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Feed Statistics WordPress Plugin Updated
I’ve updated the Feed Statistics WordPress Plugin (now at version 1.3.1) to be more compatible with WordPress 2.3 and to fix some bugs from the previous version’s clickthrough tracking. To install this plugin: If you installed an earlier version, download the zip file of the latest version here, and overwrite feed-statistics.php in your blog’s wp-content/plugins/…
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Feed Statistics plugin updated again
So, the last update to the Feed Statistics WordPress plugin left a bad taste in the mouths of more than a few people. I admit that it wasn’t my best work. However, I’ve fixed the problems in version 1.2 and have released version 1.3. No new features, but now the features from 1.2 should actually…
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Feed Statistics 1.2: Monitor your most popular feeds
I’ve updated the Feed Statistics plugin for WordPress to version 1.2; this update adds a “Top Feeds” page where you can see what the most popular feeds for your website are (e.g., main feed, category feeds, different feed formats). It shows a list of all of the feed URLs that your subscibers are requesting, and…
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Feed Statistics 1.1.2 Released
Thanks to dP’s heads-up, I’ve updated the Feed Statistics plugin for WordPress to 1.1.2 with a fix for accurate counting of subscribers via LiveJournal. To install this plugin, download the zip file of the latest 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…
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Feed Statistics 1.1: Movin’ On Up
I’ve just uploaded a big update to the Feed Statistics plugin for WordPress. This new version allows you to track which posts your subscribers are reading and which links they’re clicking on. It also has better feed reader statistics, and a more organized administration menu. See the updated homepage for a full writeup of the…
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More Feed Statistics coming
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…
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Feed Statistics: Now with more statistics
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…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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…