Avinash Kaushik has done an excellent post about blog metrics today, most of the stats he showed off, like unique visitors, pageviews, subscribers, etc. are ones I’ve been using for quite a while. There were two new “metrics” that I hadn’t used as much up till now, raw author contribution and conversation rate. Of course…
Updated my Google Analytics plugin to track AdSense clicks
Iwan Uswak from the Data Mining Blog requested that I added Aaron’s AdSense Google Analytics tracking to my Google Analytics for WordPress plugin. I emailed Aaron to ask if he had any objections to me doing that, and as expected his answer was “of course not.”. So I’ve just updated my plugin to version 2.0,…
Blogging from my phone!
I downloaded and installed Wphone yesterday, and am now trying it while I’m in the train home. I can say nothing but: wow! It’s amazingly simple, you specify that you want to use the mobile interface on login and it just plain works! Although this plugin was the result of an iPhone interface competition, it…
Using segmentation in Google Analytics for WordPress RSS readers
One of the things I’ve been wanting to do for a while seems to be finally nearing completion. Google Analytics allows you to segment users into custom segments, and there’s one segment I’ve been aching for. I want to be able to segment RSS readers, to be able to see the different browsing behavior of…
What’s the PageRank of your wp-admin dir?
Sometimes you’ve got these moments when you’re working on something, and you think “d0h”. I logged into the css3.info admin pages, to find that the /wp-admin/ page had become a PR6… So I decided to update my robots-meta plugin and add the possibility to nofollow the login/logout and admin/registration links, to prevent this from happening…
Update your robots-meta plugin!
You can now use the robots meta plugin to verify with Google Webmaster Tools and Yahoo! SiteExplorer as well, a great suggestion by Roy, I fixed some bugs next to that, so I’d advise you to upgrade! Note: make sure to deactivate and then activate the plugin. There’s a function that’s triggered on activation that…
WordPress: Noindex specific posts and pages!
The single most requested feature for my robots meta plugin was to have the ability to add noindex tags to specific posts and pages from within the write post and write page admin screens. I’ve now fixed that, with the release of version 2.0 of this plugin! For those that have not updated since 1.4:…
Conditional WordPress widgets with rich editable text
For the “About Joost” widget shown on the homepage of this site, I created a new widget. It has two great features: it shows just on the homepage, and the content and title are drawn from a page, so that I can edit it as a normal page with the richtext editor in the backend…
WordPress 2.3 makes creating dupe content even easier!
WordPress 2.3 has tags built in, as it was one of the most requested features by users. The default kubrick theme and a lot of others now have a link underneath each post to the category the post was placed in and the tags appointed to the post. Like this: Combine that with WordPress’s default…
Upgrade your WordPress!!
WordPress 2.3 “Dexter” has been released, and it’s cool, so upgrade NOW. If you’ve upgraded ad you use my Robots Meta plugin, you’ll see two new functions: “Enforce a trailing slash on all category and tag URL’s” and “noindex the comment RSS feeds”. Especially the second one is a reason to upgrade, as it allows…
