Title: Suggestions
Last modified: August 24, 2016

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# Suggestions

 *  [jshare](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jshare/)
 * (@jshare)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/suggestions-79/)
 * For a free plugin, this one is surprisingly feature rich and well-designed. Thank
   you!
 * Here are some suggestions after using it for a few days:
    1. Filter on network e.g. to see how my posts have performed on a given social 
       network only. Ideally this should be separate from the date filters, so you 
       could use both simultaneously. I realize I can get this from the Data Export
       though, so that’s already helpful
    2. Use the filtered data in a widget – be able to generate theme widgets that list
       the top X results for a given filter, such as ‘trending today’ or ‘most shared
       this week’
    3. Data Export should be CSV, not XLS. In my case, I just renamed it CSV and opened
       it with tab separators and it worked fine
    4. If an article went viral on a specific network, it makes it very hard to mouseover
       the scores of the other networks in the score bar. It would be nice to have 
       another view, or a link per article that opens a dropdown with full stats for
       that post alone so you don’t need to struggle with mouseover
 * If I think of anything else, I’ll add it here.
 * Keep up the good work!
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/social-metrics-tracker/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/social-metrics-tracker/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Ben Cole](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcole808/)
 * (@bcole808)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/suggestions-79/#post-6167463)
 * Thanks for the feedback and compliments!
 * All of these suggestions sound like great ideas to me, and I’ve also been wanting
   to implement many of them for a while. The easiest of them all will be to switch
   to CSV instead of XLS (I hadn’t thought of that) so I’ll add that to my to-do
   list.
 * Maybe someday I’ll find the time to make a pro/upgraded version of the plugin
   to add fancy extra reporting features…..
 * but for now it’s just a slow process since this is just a side project. [Pull requests on github are welcome though](https://github.com/chapmanu/wp-social-metrics-tracker)
   =)

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 * ![](https://s.w.org/plugins/geopattern-icon/social-metrics-tracker_99a19a.svg)
 * [Social Metrics Tracker](https://wordpress.org/plugins/social-metrics-tracker/)
 * [Frequently Asked Questions](https://wordpress.org/plugins/social-metrics-tracker/#faq)
 * [Support Threads](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/social-metrics-tracker/)
 * [Active Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/social-metrics-tracker/active/)
 * [Unresolved Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/social-metrics-tracker/unresolved/)
 * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/social-metrics-tracker/reviews/)

 * 1 reply
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [Ben Cole](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcole808/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/suggestions-79/#post-6167463)
 * Status: not resolved