1. Wassup Statistics

WassUp is a WordPress plugin to track your visitors in real time. It has a very readable and fancy admin console to keep tracks of your blog’s users visits.

It has a “current visitors online” view and a more detailed “visitors details” view where you can know almost everything your users are doing on your blog, it’s very useful for SEO or statistics maniacs. It comes with a “Spy” view in Ajax like the Digg Spy.

2. Firestats Plugin For WordPress

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FireStats is a web statistics system developed by Omry Yadan. It is an excellent stats plugin for WordPress and other self-hosted systems. Able to show detailed information about who’s visited, referrals, search engine terms, countries, browsers and popular pages on your blog.

3. StatPress Reloaded

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This plugin shows you real time statistics about your blog. It collects information about visitors, spiders, search keywords, feeds, browsers, OS etc.

Once the plugin StatPress has been activated it immediately starts to collect information. Using StatPress Reloaded you can see your visitors actions while they are surfing your blog or check which are the preferred pages, posts and categories. In the Dashboard menu you will find the StatPress Reloaded page where you could look up the statistics (overview or detailed). StatPress Reloaded also includes a widget you can add to a sidebar (or easy PHP code if you can’t use widgets!).

4. WordPress.com Official Stats Plugin

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WordPress.com stats plugin is a very simple and straight forward statistic plugin which shows very basic information such as Referrer, Search engine terms and where people are going when they leave your page. This is all it is but the best thing about this plugin is fast interface, ease of access and simplicity.

5. kStats Reloaded

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Using kStats you can instantly see who’s coming to your site, where they are coming from, be it another web site or one of the many popular search engines, and much more. See up to the minute information on how many unique visitors you’ve gotten, how many pageviews they’ve resulted in, including information on which crawlers are visiting and indexing your WordPress site.

kStats is much faster than many of its predecessors due to the fact that it takes a completely new approach to how it stores and maintains information. Using a slightly more complex database schema and running a daily aggregate of information allows it to reduce its SQL interaction by literally hundreds of queries.

6. nStatistics

Get Statistics for your blog, see last 15 days (visits/page views), Quick today Stats, Traffic sources, Accessed Pages and Traffic Sources. Every category can hold information for today, yesterday, last 7 days, this month, and last month.

7. WP Session Manager

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This simple yet effective statistic wordpress plugin is not about bells and whistles. With WP Session Manager it’s all about usability and pro level user info if you are interested in studying visitor behavior. According to the Developer of this plugin WP Session Manager offers The number of visitors in the last day, The number of pages each visitor looked at, Which pages have been looked at, The times each page was visited, The visitor count displayed per page, Recent site activity, Support for user excludes by session_id, user_id or ip address, Support for page excludes and Delete data functionality.

8. Pixelstats WordPress plugin

Count every viewer and every page impression for each article, no matter how and where it is read: pixelstats tracks views of each blog post or page, not only on a single article page but also on every other page where the complete article is shown, i.e. the blog front page, category pages, search result page, archive pages and even RSS feeds.

Normal statistic tools count visitors and page impressions per actual page or URL, i.e. an article view is only counted, when your visitor clicks on the article’s permalink. This doesn’t make sense for blogs, because many of your visitors read articles on your blog’s front page or in full content RSS feeds.

This plugin does not supply endless features to analyze your visitor’s behavior, it just gives you an accurate impression, which of your articles is viewed how many times.

Pixelstats can distinguish between recurring and non-recurring views per (anonymous) user to compute a unique or total view count per post/page. You can show off your stats and display the view count for each article on your blog. Pixelstats offers comfortable analyzation tools, including charts, dashboard widget etc.

9. Slimstat Plugin for WordPress

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SlimStat is a simple but powerful web analytics program written in PHP. Get up and running in seconds. Drill-down and filter data in any way you choose. You can jump through a calendar and compare results with any past day, week, month or year. Zip and other file tracking is also possible. There is one great thing about this one of its kind WP Statistics plugin, there is an iPhone-optimised interface available if you are willing to check your stats from your iPhone.

10. Search Meter

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If you have a Search box on your blog, Search Meter automatically records what people are searching for — and whether they are finding what they are looking for. Search Meter’s admin interface shows you what people have been searching for in the last couple of days, and in the last week or month. It also shows you which searches have been unsuccessful. If people search your blog and get no results, they’ll probably go elsewhere. With Search Meter, you’ll be able to find out what people are searching for, and give them what they want by creating new posts on those topics.

11. PopuList for WordPress

PopuList allows you to track the popularity of your posts on social bookmarking sites reddit, stumbleupon, del.icio.us and digg. When PopuList is activated, a page is added to your dashboard giving the number of times a page has been saved or upvoted.

12. Social Traffic Monitor WordPress 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.

13. Feed Stats for WordPress

Feed Stats for WordPress is a plugin that allows you to view your FeedBurner feed stats from inside of the WordPress admin interface.

Stats for your feed can be viewed from the “Feed Stats” page in the “Dashboard” section of WordPress.

14. FeedStats

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Simple statistics tool for rss feeds. FeedStats comes with some useful features such as Amount of days that is supposed to be saved in the statistics, Minimum level of WordPress-user, who is allowed to see the statistics, Time of a stay/visit (1hour values 3600seconds is common but might be changed), Visitors online time (5 minutes value 300s is a recommendation), IP logging, Statistics can be shown on the dashboard as a widget.

15. Feed Statistics Plugin for WordPress

Feed Statistics is a plugin for WordPress blogs that tracks statistics for your RSS/Atom feeds, including the number of subscribers, which feed readers they’re using, which posts they’re viewing and which links they’re clicking on.

16. WP OnlineCounter

A plugin for WordPress which counts the number of currently online visitors, the highest number of visitors online at the same time, and the total count of visitors. You can configure what should be displayed and how it should look like through its own options page in your WordPress dashboard. It also offers some very basic statistics regarding the most recent visitors to your site (only available if you are running on a server with at least MySQL 4.1).

17. Generic Statistics WordPress plugin

The Generic Stats WordPress Plugin is a plugin that allows you to add any statistics tracking code to your WordPress blog without having to edit your WordPress Template’s code.

It also allows you to specify whether you’d like the code to be place at the top of your page (before the <body> tag) or at the bottom of the page (just after or just before the closing </body> tag).

18. W3Counter Blog Stats Plugin for WordPress

The official WordPress Blog Stats plugin makes integrating W3Counter with a WordPress self-hosted blog easy. The plugin adds W3Counter’s real-time stats to the WordPress admin dashboard, and adds a sidebar widget for integrating the tracking code into the blog’s theme.

In addition to making it easy to view your stats and add the tracking code to your blog’s theme, the plugin also makes use of W3Counter’s Visitor Labeling feature. Whenever someone leaves a comment on your blog, their name is stored in a cookie by WordPress to fill in the comment form on future visits.

19. Clicky Stats WordPress plugin

Clicky is a very famous and well known Web Analytics service which can be used with any kind of website platform it means it’s not only a WordPress plugin. Recently Clicky blog released a dedicate plugin for wordpress to view stats right inside your dashboard. With Clicky plugin you do not need to put Monitoring code manually in your theme files in order to make stat logging work. You can get these features with the plugin, View stats from within your WP dashboard, clicky.me URL shortener integration, option to automatically post new stories to your Twitter account with a clicky.me short URL when new stories are published, Goal integration.

20. Official StatCounter Plugin for WordPress

StatCounter is also a famous Website Statistics and analysis service and can be used with any kind of website. The Official StatCounter WordPress Plugin brings you all the powerful StatCounter features to your wordpress blog without editing any theme files to place stats code.

21. Analytics360

MailChimp’s Analytics360 plugin allows you to pull Google Analytics and MailChimp data directly into your dashboard, so you can access robust analytics tools without leaving WordPress.

22. Google Analyticator

Google Analyticator adds the necessary JavaScript code to enable Google Analytics logging on any WordPress blog. This eliminates the need to edit your template code to begin logging. Google Analyticator also includes several widgets for displaying Analytics data in the admin and on your blog.

23. Open Web Analytics

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The Open Web Analytics (OWA) framework provides a generic set of PHP and HTTP APIs that application developers can use to integrate web analytics into any application. The Framework also has built-in support for popular web applications such as WordPress and MediaWiki.

24. Piwik

Piwik is a downloadable, open source (GPL licensed) web analytics software program. It provides you with detailed real time reports on your website visitors: the search engines and keywords they used, the language they speak, your popular pages… and so much more.

Piwik is a PHP MySQL software program that you download and install on your own webserver. At the end of the five minute installation process you will be given a JavaScript tag. Simply copy and paste this tag on websites you wish to track (or use an existing plugin to do it automatically for you).

25. Piwik Analytics Plugin for WordPress

This is a basic wordpress plugin for the excellent Piwik web Analytics tool. It adds the piwik javascript code into every page of your weblog, so you don’t have to code PHP to add it to your templates.

26. Reinvigorate Website Analysis Tool

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Reinvigorate is a third party website statistics tool which can be used with any kind of website as well as WordPress blogs. Reinvigorate offers top of the line analysis tools and more advance stats than google analytics which includes following features. Who’s on your site? What are they doing? Find out in Real-time, not the next day. Hourly, daily, and monthly breakdowns. Dig in, discover and uncover more relevant metrics. Stream events as they happen; dive into your stats when a visitor triggers a particular event. See where visitors click the most. Correct dead spots and improve your site’s traffic flow.

Here are the steps you can take to install a local copy of WordPress.

Step 1: Download the Mac version of MySQL from here.

Step 2: Now install the MySQL package. The preference pane can be installed by dragging MySQL.prefPane to /Library/PreferencePanes however it is not very helpful as there is a bug that prevents MySQL from being started with this.

Step 3: Manually start MySQL by typing this in one terminal window:

sudo /usr/LOCAL/mysql/bin/safe_mysqld

Step 4: Close the terminal window and open another one. Type in the following and restart MySQL each time by rebooting the system:

sudo mkdir /var/mysql/
sudo ln -s /tmp/mysql.sock /var/mysql/mysql.sock

Step 5: You will need to substitute your chosen MySQL root password for {ROOTPASS} and the Bonjour computer name (shown at the top of Sharing in System Preferences) for {HOST}.

$ mysql -u root
> DROP DATABASE test;
> DELETE FROM mysql.user WHERE User = '';
> FLUSH privileges;
> SET password FOR root@localhost = password('{ROOTPASS}');
> SET password FOR root@127.0.0.1 = password('{ROOTPASS}');
> SET password FOR 'root'@'{HOST}.local' = password('{ROOTPASS}');
> quit

Step 6: Now comes creating the WordPress MySQL database and user. {ROOTPASS} will be the same. In the following example, a database named wordpress is created and a username wpuser is granted privileges.

$ mysql -u root -p
Enter Password: {ROOTPASS}
> CREATE DATABASE wordpress;
> GRANT ALL privileges ON wordpress.* TO wpuser@localhost IDENTIFIED BY 'foo';
> SET password FOR wpuser@localhost = old_password('wppass');
> quit

Step 7: Turning on PHP is fairly easy. Open the file /etc/apache2/httpd.conf.

Step 8: Remove the “#” from the following line # LoadModule php5_module and save the file.

Step 9: Finally you can install WordPress. Download and extract WordPress from here.

Step 10: Copy the extracted contents to your Sites folder under your user name.

Step 11: In the Sites folder, open wp-config-sample.php and save it as wp-config.php

Step 12: Change the following first lines of the document to point to your database.

define('DB_NAME', 'wordpress'); // The name of the DATABASE
define('DB_USER', 'wpuser'); // Your MySQL username
define('DB_PASSWORD', 'wppass'); // …AND password
define('DB_HOST', 'localhost:/tmp/mysql.sock'); // 99% chance...

Step 13: Restart apache by typing this in the terminal:

sudo apachectl restart

Step 14: Commence installation by using your browser to navigate to your installation folder. Replace “user” with your username:

http://localhost/~user/wp-admin/install.php

Step 15: People facing problems might have to update their virtual hosts with the following command: Again, replace “user” with your username:

sudo cp /etc/httpd/users/user.conf /etc/apache2/users/user.conf

Step 16: Restart apache once again with:

sudo apachectl restart

These self educated designers believe in themselves and many of them accomplish a lot – they can brilliantly create designs and websites that have flow and are well connected. But because they have learned everything themselves, they often become overambitious and try doing more where less is needed.

Many sites are becoming unnecessarily complicated. Site creators should learn that their designs need to be accessible for the average internet user. Account creation is one great example of this. If somebody wants to create an account on your site, he should not have to hunt for the “Sign Up” button – the button should be right there, catching the visitor’s attention. Similarly the account creation page should not require any instructions. Its flow should be simple to follow and understand.

Here is an image extract from HuffDuffer’s signup page:

You can see how simple and user friendly the account creation page was made. HuffDuffer realizes the need to have social skills in their websites. People visiting a site want a nice change and something that presents information in a conversational manner is surely appreciated.

Sifter’s support page utilizes a similar social skill pattern.

Any visitor with a complaint or question will not only enter his summary but also learn when to expect a response.

Incorporating such simple social skills into one’s website can add a great deal of charm to the site. While interactive design and tools are important social skills are a key element in today’s successful websites.

A site with a brilliant design that lacks a conversational manner is the internet-equivalent of somebody with great looks but an unimpressive personality. Try adding that ‘personality’ feature to your website to make it stand out.

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<h2>Popular Posts</h2>
<ul>
<?php $result = $wpdb->get_results("SELECT comment_count,ID,post_title FROM $wpdb->posts ORDER BY comment_count DESC LIMIT 0 , 5");
foreach ($result as $post) {
setup_postdata($post);
$postid = $post->ID;
$title = $post->post_title;
$commentcount = $post->comment_count;
if ($commentcount != 0) { ?>
 
<li><a href="<?php echo get_permalink($postid); ?>" title="<?php echo $title ?>">
<?php echo $title ?></a> {<?php echo $commentcount ?>}</li>
<?php } } ?>
</ul>

You can add this code to your Sidebar.php if you want to show Most Popular Post List in your blog’s sidebar. If you want to show more than 5 posts at a time simply find comment_count DESC LIMIT 0 , 5″); in above code and change ‘5‘ to 10 or 15.

This little WordPress hack can save you from such bad times. Following piece of code will delay RSS feed update for 5 minutes when you update your blog. You can easily increase RSS update delay time.

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function publish_later_on_feed($where) {
global $wpdb;
 
if ( is_feed() ) {
// timestamp in WP-format
$now = gmdate('Y-m-d H:i:s');
 
// value for wait; + device
$wait = '5'; // integer
 
// http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/date-and-time-functions.html#function_timestampdiff
$device = 'MINUTE'; //MINUTE, HOUR, DAY, WEEK, MONTH, YEAR
 
// add SQL-sytax to default $where
$where .= " AND TIMESTAMPDIFF($device, $wpdb->posts.post_date_gmt, '$now') > $wait ";
}
return $where;
}
 
add_filter('posts_where', 'publish_later_on_feed');

Increase or Decrease update delay:
In the above code find $wait = ’5′; // integer and change 5 to anything you like. If you want to increase more than an hour find $device = ‘MINUTE’; and change it to MINUTE, HOUR, DAY, WEEK, MONTH or YEAR.

Simple paste the following code anywhere in your theme where you want Author list to be appeared. For example open sidebar.php and paste the following code.

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<ul>
<?php wp_list_authors(‘exclude_admin=0&optioncount=1&show_fullname=1&hide_empty=1′); ?>
</ul>

Simple put the following code in Single.php file that can be found in your theme folder.

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<a href=”http://twitter.com/home?status=Currently reading <?php the_permalink(); ?>” title=”Click to send this page to Twitter!” target=”_blank”>Share on Twitter</a>

Simply put the following code anywhere in your WordPress blog theme file to show list of upcoming posts.

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Upcomming Posts:
 
<?php query_posts('showposts=10&post_status=future'); ?>
<?php if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
 
<?php the_title(); ?> <?php edit_post_link('e',' (',')'); ?>
 
<span><?php the_time('j. F Y'); ?></span>
 
<?php endwhile; else: ?>
 
No future events scheduled.
 
<?php endif; ?>

All you need to do is to paste the following code in your Functions.php file. It will remove all the widgets available in your dashboard further after you can try and Add/Remove lines starting with unset($wp_meta_boxes… to keep or remove the widgets you want.

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function remove_dashboard_widgets() {
	global $wp_meta_boxes;
 
	unset($wp_meta_boxes['dashboard']['side']['core']['dashboard_quick_press']);
	unset($wp_meta_boxes['dashboard']['normal']['core']['dashboard_incoming_links']);
	unset($wp_meta_boxes['dashboard']['normal']['core']['dashboard_right_now']);
	unset($wp_meta_boxes['dashboard']['normal']['core']['dashboard_plugins']);
	unset($wp_meta_boxes['dashboard']['normal']['core']['dashboard_recent_drafts']);
	unset($wp_meta_boxes['dashboard']['normal']['core']['dashboard_recent_comments']);
	unset($wp_meta_boxes['dashboard']['side']['core']['dashboard_primary']);
	unset($wp_meta_boxes['dashboard']['side']['core']['dashboard_secondary']);
 
}
 
if (!current_user_can('manage_options')) {
	add_action('wp_dashboard_setup', 'remove_dashboard_widgets' );
}

For Posts:

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Posted <?php echo human_time_diff(get_the_time('U'), current_time('timestamp')) . 'ago'; ?>

For Comments:

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Posted <?php echo human_time_diff(get_comment_time('U'), current_time('timestamp')) . 'ago'; ?>