Christopher Finke writes about software, woodworking, and other creative endeavors.

Category: WordPress

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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,…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Greencode WordPress Theme Update (0.4)

    I’ve updated the Greencode WordPress theme (which I’m using on my site) to version 0.4. Since version 0.3, I’ve added a a custom view for the Nintendo Wii (screenshot below), refined the tag cloud, and fixed a few miscellaneous bugs. You can download the newest version from the Greencode homepage.

  • Optimizing Your Website for the Wii

    Wiiiii!

  • Greencode WordPress Theme Updated (0.3)

    I’ve updated the Greencode WordPress theme (which I’m using on my site) to version 0.3. Since version 0.2, I’ve added a print stylesheet (screenshot of a printed page below), optimized the header image to reduce its size by half, and fixed a few miscellaneous bugs. You can download the newest version from the Greencode homepage.

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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.

  • 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…

  • Greencode WordPress Theme

    I’ve finished putting together my first WordPress theme, which I’ve named Greencode. It’s the same one I use on this site, so this is your chance to be a little more like me; go ahead and download it here.

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