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New feature: Akismet Stats

Vlad — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 08:02:05 +0000

Over the last days a couple of new versions for the Akismet Worpress plugin were released. And they (silently) bring a new feature: your very own Akismet Stats page, located under the Dashboard main tab:

So far you can get:

an overview of spam/ham/accuracy, with monthly sum-ups
graphs showing spam/ham/missed spam/false positives in time
a “yummy pie” comparing spam and ham
a apology for vegetarians

What the heck is ham doing on my blog? I’m a vegetarian.[...]

Also, we’re sorry about the vegetarian thing.

Nice!
One more thing (which they omitted): you can check out the stats page manually by replacing api_key and blog_url in the following url with the proper values:

http://api_key.web.akismet.com/1.0/user-stats.php?blog=blog_url

(just make sure you keep your API key secret!).

SVN logs show it’s Matt who’s been pushing the update. It must be the cakes!

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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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Google Trends for Websites

Vlad — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 12:24:25 +0000

Google Trends is now available for website visits too. And it works for .ro as well, so fight’s on:

Via Google Blogoscoped!

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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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Why Google Reader?

Vlad — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 06:29:45 +0000

I’m generally not a Google fanboy. Really! Though, I do think their search is the best thing since sliced bread and Gmail is the greatest free service (just a figure of speech, nothing is free these days). And I love the Reader.

Web feeds (RSS or Atom) are great if you want to track blogs, discussions, news and web sites of all kind. I’ve been using them for some time and I have a strong feeling I’ll stick to them some more. But consuming them is a long story. In time I’ve used numerous systems. Some were desktop apps, others were web services. I’ve had my share of passing OPMLs from one program/service to another.(...)
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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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