shortdark

Hi Johannes,

Words per post should work better for you now. I know you have some posts of less than 100 words and many posts more than 750 so that’s quite a large range so I’d be really interested if it gives you more useful information, or not.

To make the numbers fairly round I’ve bumped them up to the nearest 10. So, there might be 0-19 words, then 20-39 words, etc. Because I made it round numbers that means that for me there are a couple of empty slots at the end, the alternative would be to have uneven ranges like 0-17 words, 18-35, 36-… I think rounded numbers are better so I just need to find a way to re-calibrate the chart to remove those empty bars at the end.

What do you think? Does this work for you?

Thanks,
Neil

Thanks Johannes!

That’s a really good idea. Maybe if the plugin finds the largest word count then splits the graph up into 15 or 20 even columns that will work better. Awesome feedback!

I’m trying to be cautious with my time predictions at the moment because I’m on vacation but I can see this getting updated early March.

The word count is definitely something that needs working on as it may not be 100% the same as the WordPress number.

Much appreciated feedback. Thanks again!

Neil

Generally (to everyone)…
From the stats it looks like a few people have uninstalled recently so I was wondering if the plugin was broken for some people. If anyone finds anything else that doesn’t work I’d really like to know please so I can fix! Thank you. The export/CSV functions will also be improved once I get some time.

Hi Laurent,

Thank you very much, it makes me feel great knowing that the plugin is useful. When someone is being this nice I feel that I should tell you the stuff that I’m unsure about at the moment, haha. So here it is…

For the recent additions, author and custom taxonomy, I’d just say that I’ve tested them a little on my test sites but it’s difficult for me to test those on bigger “production” sites as I don’t have any production sites with multiple users and custom taxonomy. The authors in particular was a bit fiddly, so if you see any bugs please let me know.

Also, words per post… this may not be exactly the same as the word count number you get on the admin on the post editor, but it should be close. I’d like to count the words in the same way WordPress does so that chart matches exactly, this will hopefully be soon.

I can add something that counts people with “author privileges” who have/haven’t posted but I found through testing that you can assign a post to a contributor. So, even though a contributor should not be able to create a post, there can be contributors with posts assigned to them. I’ll make a note of this for future updates, I imagine having a percentage of users who post might be useful too?

Another long reply from me 🙂 FYI, I may be busy with other stuff for a month or so, plus I’ve updated loads recently, so it might be a few weeks before I can do any more.

So, thanks again for using my plugin and I hope you continue to use it and continue to give me suggestions. I don’t expect any money, but if you would like to donate here is my paypal page.

Neil

• This reply was modified 9 years, 7 months ago by shortdark.

With this latest update it was almost all about the custom taxonomy. I’m not sure how many people use custom taxonomy so next update is going to be something that hopefully everyone will potentially use… the exports!

There will definitely be a pie chart on the main page with the custom taxonomy data. I would have done it this time but I’m streamlining the code at the same time and it would have been a bridge too far. Next time! I’d also like to neaten up the custom taxonomy text, e.g. making the name in the menu the proper title, as opposed to the slug.

With some of your suggestions there are more than one way to add them to a post (images and videos) so if I added that I’d just have to make sure that it worked for everyone, whether they’re added through the media library or if someone adds them manually. So, I’d say yes, great idea, but I need to look into that some more. I call these “quality metrics” and I’m definitely going to add some of them in the future.

Comments are another good one, I can see them being added soon.

Here’s what I’m planning for the next few updates…

• CSV exports.
• Finish custom taxonomy.
• Author settings.
• I have an idea for the main page that should be interesting.
• The first quality metric might be the number of words per post as EVERYONE uses words.
• Re-structure the pages.

It’s good to know that it’s not just me with an interest in stats. Any and all feedback is more than appreciated! Thank you!

Neil

• This reply was modified 9 years, 8 months ago by shortdark.

Hi Laurent,

Custom Taxonomy just added to the latest version (3.0.29). After updating the plugin go to the “Settings” page and turn custom taxonomy settings on and select which one you’d like to view. After doing all that the custom taxonomy should be listed under the tags in the Post Volume Stats menu… it has it’s own page!

Please let me know if this works for you. Needs tidying.

Export feature next! Thanks again for the feedback, much appreciated.

• This reply was modified 9 years, 8 months ago by shortdark.

Added to 3.0.27!

Thanks again for your suggestions, I hope the latest version works well for you. Great ideas and the plugin is better for it, I feel.

Assuming the latest version works for everyone, next up is a CSV/PDF export and custom taxonomy stats.

I’d thought about custom taxonomy while making the plugin but since I don’t currently use them myself they weren’t added at the start. It’s something, like the author stats, that I’ll have to experiment with and see if I can add it. Another great idea! I’ll aim to have something for custom taxonomy added by the next update, if it’s just for the main page at first there will be more separate pages to go along with the tags and categories soon.

I’m really pleased that people are able to use the plugin and find it useful. So thanks again for your feedback, knowing that there are people out there using the plugin means a lot to me.