I’ve been playing with the thought of developing a Pepper for Mint for ages, but never got to it. Tonight I decided to do it, and it turned out to be incredibly easy! So I’ve developed a Pepper that has two panes, one displays your Technorati scores like this: The other displays the latest links [...]

I run three instances of Mint, and if I worked “the normal way” doing one of it’s rather frequent updates would mean having to copy the same files three times. Since I’m lazy, I don’t feel like doing that. What I’ve done is pick one “main” Mint install, and symlink all files in other directories [...]

If you’re a Mint user, you might want to add the new search.live.com as a search engine to your Mint config, since otherwise Mint won’t recognize these referrers as a Search Engine.The process is quite easy:add the following lines to the end of your engines.php: $SI_SearchEngines[] = array( ‘name’ => ‘Live.com’, ‘url’ => ‘http://search.live.com/results.aspx’, ‘domain’ [...]

This is so humbling… I just logged in to my Mint installation, to see that the combined total downloads for my plugins on WordPress.org have crossed 1 million… Check the screenshot:

This Pepper shows your SlideShare slideshows’ statistics within your Mint installation. All you have to do is enter your SlideShare username and password in the preferences, and you’ll get a nice overview of your slides’ statistics. Get it here. It looks like this: And the preferences look like this:

Using the Vimeo API, this pepper grabs the statistics about your videos, and shows them in your mint installation. Get it here. Screenshots The pepper pane: The preferences pane:

This Pepper uses the Technorati API to request your current number if inbound links, unique blogs and ranks, as well as the latest links to your blog, displaying this data over two tabs. Get it here. Screenshots:

Using the API for TwitterCounter that I created myself, I’ve also created a TwitterCounter Pepper, that shows you some stats about how your follower count is progressing. It looks like this: And you can go get it here.

Mint is my favorite statistics package for real time analysis. While I love Google Analytics, Mint has one benefit that makes it my favorite: it’s extendable. I’ve written a couple of Mint Peppers so far for different services I use, and you can find them all here.

Over the years I’ve built tools for quite a few different purposes. While a lot are SEO related, some others are not, and I’ve decided to move those that are not into a separate tools section on this site. For now this section has three subsections: SEO Tools Mint, with my Peppers for Mint Magento [...]