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wp.com Stats Helper Plugin 0.5.5

Vlad — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 11:35:38 +0000

Thanks to Michael Tyson I’m releasing a new version of the wordpress.com Stats Helper plugin. It fixes some display problems (especially evident since wp 2.6.2) and introduces some more options to the widgets, including the ability to hide the shameless promotion link

Well done, Mr. Mike Tyson!

Update:

Up goes 0.5.5.1, with a small fix for options handling. WordPress.org/extend takes a while to update, if you’re in hurry to test the new version you can use the SVN!

Updated (again):

Version 0.5.5.2 adds a default to $options['show'] (was causing a lot of grief among users).

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Stats Helper Plugin 0.5.4 – Fixes for Post Title, URL, cache

Vlad — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 18:25:48 +0000

I updated the Stats Helper Plugin to version 0.5.4. It comes with two fixes:

Post titles and permalink/URL is read from the local WordPress database instead of using those reported by stats.wordpress.com (lately it’s been acting very strange).
Expired elements from the option-based cache are removed at each save (a cache too much was causing crashes on some installations).

I strongly recommend you update to this version!

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Stats Helper Plugin 0.5: Filtering by type (post/page)

Vlad — Sat, 03 May 2008 13:28:25 +0000

UPDATE: Also removed some passing by reference in foreach, that was unsupported in PHP4 too.
UPDATE: Due to recent complaints I removed the try...catch block and now the plugin is PHP4-safe again.
Following a suggestion from Alex, I’ve updated the wordpress.com stats helper plugin to version 0.5. The main change is that you can filter items by type in most visited list.

The new version also comes with a new template function for most visited posts, using a more flexible argument passing method (via an array).

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Stats Helper Plugin 0.4: Timeframe selection, Post/Page views

Vlad — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 13:10:48 +0000

I’ve been waiting for the wordpress.org/extend hosting to be activated before posting updates to the Stats Helper Plugin. So here goes!

Version 0.4 brings:

Possibility to specify a timeframe for the stats
Possibility to retrieve views for a specific post/page (by id)
(Hopefully) better usage documentation

Get it at: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpresscom-stats-helper/!

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WordPress.org Hosting for Stats Helper Plugin

Vlad — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 04:35:41 +0000

Yesterday the stats helper plugin hosting was activated on wordpress.org: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpresscom-stats-helper/. From now on all updates will be available there.

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WordPress Stats Helper Plugin 0.3, Blog Visits

Vlad — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 16:16:23 +0000

On Caroline‘s suggestion I updated the Stats Helper Plugin so that you can display the number of blog visits since stats where enabled.

Enjoy!

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WordPress Stats Helper Plugin v0.2, Internal Options – Based Cache Details

Vlad — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 12:31:26 +0000

Version 0.2 of the WordPress.com Stats Helper Plugin is out. Among the main changes:

internal, option-based, cache for data fetched from wordpress.com
added possibility to not display post views count (when using either as a function or as a widget)
capped post list to a maximum of 25 items

Andy expressed some serious concern when I first asked him to review this plugin: it was using wp_cache for data fetched from stats.wordpress.com. By default the cache is not enabled in wordpress (you have to manually set a variable in wp-config.php). He suggested I use the options to emulate a cache for my plugin. Here’s how I did it:(...)
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WordPress Plugin: Stats Helper Functions And Widgets

Vlad — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 15:15:50 +0000

If you’re using WordPress to blog chances are you’ll want to see who’s reading your blog and what are the topics of interest. Enter stage left: wordpress.com stats!

The official stats plugin is wonderful and it integrates neatly into your blog’s (or your wp.com global) dashboard. It works great for people with many blogs, it works even greater if you already some wp.com blogs and some private hosted blogs. It’s hot!

But can it do more than satisfying your crave for ego bumping?

Can it help your blog? I believe so.

Here’s how: now matter how people are arriving on your blog (be it from a feed reader, a referrer link or some search engine) changes are they’ll be missing on what’s really important and interesting about your blog. If you could tell them what other people have found if interest maybe they’ll take so time and dive into those posts. Who knows, maybe you could turn them into regular visitors!

And you can do that, and it’s easy! WordPress.com stats plugin is able to give you that info. And this why I developed a stats helper plugin. It’s used right here, on this blog’s Most Visited Posts top panel.

Hope it will help you!

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Developer Tools For The K750

Vlad — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 13:52:32 +0000

Check out Sony-Ericsson’s Developers Section! Among the highlights:

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