June 2006 Archives

FeedBurner is a really cool service. Although I may have my reservations of Google's introduction of Google Analytics as a free service I still use it and find that its statistics are superior to most. Of course if you want to actually view your stats you need to login to both websites to see what's going on. However if you are lazy, like me, or simply want to save time then this new Wordpress plugin could be the ideal solution (via):

his plugin allows you to easily view your Google Analytics and Feedburner reports in your WordPress administration area. It adds a top-level Reports tab and when you click on it, you’ll get a quick 7 day overview of what’s going on with your site (pageviews, visits, referrers, etc). You’ll have to login to Google Analytics or Feedburner directly if you want more detailed stats.

It's nice and easy to setup, though you may need to check with your hosting provider, as it needs to use more than the default 8 MB of memory to run (most shared hosting providers probably have that set at a higher limit, but you should check). You will need to have your Google Analytics login details so that it can pull down the data. All in all setup took less than 2 minutes and I can now view both sets of statistics easily from within my Wordpress control panel. Nice!

The Movable Type team have released the first beta of Movable Type 3.3. Head on over to their blog to get details of new features, bugs and more. It looks like the next version could offer some very interesting features, but I wonder will they do anything about the installer.