Going to try it out now, sounds great :)

Look forward to the updates too.

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Don't work at my blog. :(

I had put it into my theme faces. But do not work. I have wp 2.0.9 Is that the mistake?

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Sounds like a nice idea but version 1.0.1 wouldn't activate in the plugin menu - died due to a fatal error.

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"Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error."

This on WP 2.2, PHP 5.2.3.

sounds great, say goodbye to feedburner eh??
I'll try this, thx...

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Does this plugin properly deals with Google reader? Google reader groups all reads into one and reports in the link how many subscribers are. Will this work?

Vidas: Yes, this will correctly count subscribers reported in the user-agent string by third-party feed readers such as Google Reader, Netvibes, etc.

Installed, tested, perfect. Thank you very much Christopher! I was looking for this for such long time. I did not wanted to redirect my subscription to feedburner, so now I have full control of my blog and I know how many people are reading it.

Thank you very much again!!!!!

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Der Link auf das Plugin ist halb kaputt ;-)

Das Linkziel sollte auf feed-statistics-1.0.3.zip lauten. :P

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Hmm..got an error -

WordPress database error: [Access denied for user... blah...
CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS wp_feed_subscribers ( subscribers INT(11) NOT NULL DEFAULT 0, identifier VARCHAR(255) NOT NULL DEFAULT '', date datetime NOT NULL DEFAULT '0000-00-00 00:00:00', PRIMARY KEY (identifier) )

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jaggs: That looks like your database user does not have "CREATE TABLE" permissions. You'll have to get that table created manually by a user that does have those permissions.

Thanks Christopher.

Thanks for this brilliant script. I was never too much thrilled of giving the control of my feed away and this is the plugin I was waiting for. Thanks a lot.

I'm looking forward to new features:) Maybe the features FeedBurner Stats PRO is offering...

have installed version 1.1.1 and now appears a new FEED top menu. But when I click on it a "not found page" appears.

Thanks!

Daniel, which version of Wordpress are you running? When you get the error, what is the URL in the address bar?

Christopher, this is a superb plugin (great upgrade too). I'm intrigued as to why the clickthrough feature is not default enabled while the post views is? Is there some performance penalty? And does it play nice with excerpted feeds which have images delivered to the readers?

Jaggs: There are 2 reasons for not enabling the clickthrough feature by default.

#1 is that it's more invasive than the post view tracking is, in that it actually modified the content of the post by changing the links. This means that readers won't be able to tell exactly where the links lead, and that might be a problem for some.

#2 is that when clickthrough tracking is turned on, if your site goes down for whatever reason, all of the links in your feed are now dead as well, even if the feed is already cached.

There is a small performance hit in that every outgoing link in your feed is routed through your own site first.

I know of no incompatibilities with excerpted feeds.

I wonder if there is a way to manually add some feed that comes in a bit differently? LiveJournal has the capability of subscribing to a feed and then making that feed available to its members for a feed on the Friends Page.

Right now, my Feed Widget says I only have one subscriber from LiveJournal, which is the webmaster. But when I look at my logs, the feed from them reads like this:

"LiveJournal.com (webmaster@livejournal.com; for http://www.livejournal.com/users/revisionnotes/; 11 readers."

In other words, they have set up my blog as a mirror blog on their site (so to speak), which is accessed only by the webmaster and then directed to the eleven readers. But it still tells how many readers there are from LiveJournal.

So--anyway to automatically add those into the feed count? Or do I have to always look at my log for the number of feeds from LiveJournal? The ins and outs of feed counts!

Thanks!
dP

Thanks Christopher, that's cool. The Post View tracking is not working for me, but I think that's a result of my strange feed structure. However I do also note that there are a *lot* less Google Reader stats coming in for my feeds than Feedburner showed when I was running that for a while. I'm wondering whether you're picking them all up...?

In my website is not working property, when I go to the admin and click in FEED top menu, the page do not exist :-(

Can't wait to get home and try this, this would negate the main reason I've been looking at FeedBurner.

Daniel:
Had the same problem on a wordpress blog, too. I did the mistake to place the file feed-statistics.php in a subfolder under plugins/ .
After moving feed-statistics.php to /wp-content/plugins/feed-statistics.php everything works fine.
HTH

Thank for the plugins, it's a very nice thing for stat-addicts who don't want to be burned by feedburner or similar services ;)

cheers
markus

Very nice update of the plugin, it gets better and better.

I have a question about the the clickthrough feature

You mention:

#1 is that it's more invasive than the post view tracking is, in that it actually modified the content of the post by changing the links. This means that readers won't be able to tell exactly where the links lead, and that might be a problem for some.

This only applies (and forgive my ignorance here) to the links in the feed I guess and not to any links of the website, right?

Thanks again.
Thanks

Gemme: That is correct.

A question about the stats. You allow the user to set how many days the program will look at. When I set it to 2 days v. 60 days, the answer if very different. I realize that it is dependent upon how many times your feed is accessed and that's why the results vary.

Is there an industry standard for this--you can officially say your Feed has this many subscribers, based on a certain number of days of activity? Or is this too new a count to have a standard? How many days does Feedburner, for example, count?

Thanks!
dP

Hello Chris,

I'm having an issue with Feed Statistics version 1.1.2. It activates, but when I go to any of the Feed Statistics' panes, I see the following error message:

WordPress database error: [Table 'araa_home.wp_feed_subscribers' doesn't exist]
SELECT SUM(subscribers) total FROM wp_feed_subscribers WHERE (date > '2007-08-03 15:39:59') OR ( LOCATE('###',identifier) != 0 AND date > '2007-07-28 15:39:59' )

P.S., I'm using PHP 4.3.11 and WordPress 2.2.2.

Thanks in advance!

Randy

Randy - Does your Wordpress DB user have CREATE TABLE permissions? If not, you may have to create the tables manually. Let me know, and I can send you the SQL.

Hey Chris,

Thanks for the SUPER fast response! As for my reply... I think so. I say this as a complete rookie in regards to working with mySQL. Also, based on the fact that I have successfully installed many other plugins that have been able to create their own tables. How can I know for sure?

Thanks in advance,

Randy

Hey Chris,

Oh, my WordPress user! Yes, I'm pretty sure I have CREATE TABLE permissions being that I am the administrator. The one strange thing is that a while back I successfully installed your plugin (Feed Statistics v???). Then, for whatever reason, I removed your plugin and dropped the associated mySQL table(s). Could this action of mine have caused the issue. And, if so, how can I fix it?

Thanks in advance again!

Randy

Yes, that would explain it. To avoid doing extra queries, the plugin checks for a stored version number. I think if you delete the row in wp_options where option_name equals feed_statistics_version, and then just visit one of the Feed admin pages, it should recreate the tables.

Chris

I am a WP hosted user. Assume this only works for WP.org users. Is that right?

Hi Chris,

Great work, Thanks. A plugin, I have been searching for sometime, as an alternative for Feedburner....

But not working for me :(

WP private-hosted (on a sub directory of the domain), PHP 5, Unix and plugin installed/activated succesfully. But doesnt show any stats, stats area is blank, although it loads. It's been 3 days so far, but feed has been requested several times every hour. Has this gotta do something with PHP version??

In the next version do you think is possible implement a way to know which feed the subscribers are reading ? For example a user could be subscribed to a subcategory feed

http://www.mysite.com/category1/feed

could be interested know which feed a subscriber is reading :)

I installed the plugin some days ago, but it's still telling me "0 Feed Subscribers". That's odd, because I know at least two people for sure, who are subscribed to my feed (using bloglines.com).

Only at Feed -> Post Views I get results. The rest is still empty.

Any idea what went wrong and what I can do?

Maybe the same problem as shanX (nr. 43)? Hmmm...

No idea, anybody? :-(

@ Andreas: here its the other way around. I have 47 feed-readers (?) but no popular posts. Did you look in your access.log file. I always have a 404 when somebody is reading a post via rss. it logs like GET /wp-content/plugins/feed-statistics.php?view=1&post_id=318 HTTP/1.1" 404 315.

Any help Chris?

Hi Chris,
great plugin but it will be even better when I get it running :)
Check this:

WordPress database error: [You have an error in your SQL syntax. Check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE date=NOW(), user_agent='Moz]
INSERT INTO wp_feed_subscribers SET subscribers=1, identifier='89.164.8.136', user_agent='Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070725 Firefox/2.0.0.6', date=NOW() ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE date=NOW(), user_agent='Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070725 Firefox/2.0.0.6', subscribers=1

Tomislav: it looks like you're running an older version of MySQL that doesn't support the " ON DUPLICATE " syntax.

Like Andreas, I was getting no hits on my statistics until I modified the code slightly. The problem is that the standard feed URL for Wordpress ends up being like this:

site.com/blog/index.php/feed/rss/

Under the function, "is_feed_url()", it checks for the basename of the URL and uses that in a CASE statement to see if it's a valid feed URL. Well, the basename of the above ends up being "feed", not one of the choices in the CASE.

So, by adding the line below, I got mine to work:

case 'feed':

This was added on line 239 of the current version, so it looks like this:

case 'wp-rdf.php':
case 'wp-rss.php':
case 'wp-rss2.php':
case 'wp-atom.php':
case 'feed':
return true;
break;

That seemed to do the trick. YMMV.

Nathan

CORRECTION: I had to add THREE cases to the switch to make it work -- adding 'feed' only fixes it for standard RSS -- RSS2 needs 'rss2' and Atom needs, strangely enough, 'atom'. So you end up with a switch that looks like this:

case 'wp-rdf.php':
case 'wp-rss.php':
case 'wp-rss2.php':
case 'wp-atom.php':
case 'feed':
case 'rss2':
case 'atom':
return true;
break

Hi Nathan,

thanks a lot. I tried you codechange, and it seemed to work. But I did get errors if someone wanted to subscribe to my feed (a SQL-error); comments worked.

Strange.

I disabled the plugin again.

Greetings,
Andreas

Hello Christopher,
just updated your plugin. On the mainpage I get this SQL error:
[Can't group on 'identifier']
SELECT subscribers AS total, CASE WHEN SUM(subscribers) = 1 THEN identifier ELSE CONCAT(identifier, feed) END AS identifier FROM wp_feed_subscribers WHERE ( (date > '2007-08-28 22:38:59') OR ( LOCATE('###',identifier) != 0 AND date > '2007-08-08 22:38:59' ) ) GROUP BY identifier

it still shows Top Feeds and Feed Readers. Post Views and Clicktroughs still missing as described above at 48. Do have any hints. Thank you very much

I noticed that google webmaster tools now report rss subscribers information and wanted to ask you this.
Google reports following "Google Subscribers":
http://.../Blog/?feed=atom 3
http://.../Blog/?feed=rss2 15
http://.../Blog/feed 4
http://.../Blog/feed/atom 4
So total on google seems to be: 3+15+4+4=26.

Feed statistics reports google feedreader as:
Feedfetcher-Google 19

Any idea why there differences?

Google could be reporting subscribers over a longer period of time than Feed Statistics; that could account for the discrepancy.

Thank you very much for updating your feed stat plug in.This release was better in someway than the older one.One feature I'd really like was a way to distinguish between search engine bots and users.

Thanks again.

Thank you very much for updating your feed stat plug in.This release was better in someway than the older one.One feature I'd really like was a way to distinguish between search engine bots and users.

Thanks again.

hey, nice plugin but not work with last wordpress 2.3 and mysql 5.x
got error
wp_feed_subscribers' doesn't exist]
SELECT subscribers, CASE WHEN subscribers = 1 THEN identifier ELSE CONCAT(identifier, feed) END AS ident FROM wp_feed_subscribers WHERE ( (date > '2007-10-09 14:48:14') OR ( LOCATE('###',identifier) != 0 AND
its after install

Alexander: Try downloading version 1.3.1 and then calling your RSS feed with "?reset_feed_statistics=1" on the end. This will try and recreate all of the tables that Feed Statistics uses.

Christopher,
got error again, i think here is problem with sql:

WordPress database error: [Specified key was too long; max key length is 1000 bytes]
CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS wp_feed_subscribers ( subscribers INT(11) NOT NULL DEFAULT 0, identifier VARCHAR(200) NOT NULL DEFAULT '', feed VARCHAR( 200 ) NOT NULL, date datetime NOT NULL DEFAULT '0000-00-00 00:00:00', user_agent VARCHAR(255) NOT NULL DEFAULT '', PRIMARY KEY (identifier, feed) )

Help!
Need the bit of php for wordpress so it will display on my site! - not listed in your notes above.....

got this error:

WordPress database error: [Table 'crazynla_wrdp1.wp_feed_subscribers' doesn't exist]
SELECT subscribers, CASE WHEN subscribers = 1 THEN identifier ELSE CONCAT(identifier, feed) END AS ident FROM wp_feed_subscribers WHERE ( (date > '2007-10-13 08:42:13') OR ( LOCATE('###',identifier) != 0 AND date > '2007-10-07 08:42:13' ) ) ORDER BY ident ASC, date DESC

Great plugin! I really love it! Now I need not worry about burning all my feeds through FeedBurner!!

@ Alexander:
I had the same problem. This error occurs because I'm sure you have UTF8 collation at your database. UTF8 needs 3 bytes for each character instead of 1.

Try to change the identifier and feed lengths from 200 to 166. I'm not sure if it's 100% working solution but I had to installation problems with this alter.

@djStelios, @Alexander: Changing the feed column to have a length of 120 should fix the problem and not cause any trouble.

Chris, Google Reader stats have now completely disappeared from my installed Feed statistics. Weird? Everything else seems to be fine.

Awesome plugin! Thanks so much for this!

WordPress database error: [Table 'blogdeluxeru.wp_feed_subscribers' doesn't exist]

tahnkss

Any thought on DPs question above regarding how many days to set the collection to? Such as what feedburner uses, or what is a typical "standard"? The results vary vastly based on this value.

Any input is appreciated and thanks for the great plugin.

Hi,

How do I disable this plugin? As soon as I disable the plugin my feed no longer validates? When I re-enable it, it validates again. I am doing some trouble shooting on my feed and need to disable this plugin temporarily.

Once enabled, does it leave behind debris which is not removed when disabled? Please help.

my feed URL is http://www.anmolmehta.com/blog/feed

Thanks,
Anmol

More specifically, once I turn on click tracking for which links my subscribers click and then turn off the option. The feed invalidates w/ following error...

Sorry

This feed does not validate.

*

line 223, column 1570: Invalid character in a URI: '"' (17 occurrences) [help]

... DE">GRATITUDE]]>

Im going to try the plugin
Thanks

#45 & #43

I think the problem is in functions:

function clickthrough_replace($content)
function postview_tracker($content)

lines:

$redirect_url = get_bloginfo('url') . "/wp-content/plugins/feed-statistics.php?url=";

$content .= ' ';

Note: get_bloginfo('url') is same as home URI (Blog address). I Think that is OK if you install WordPress in site root. In a case that your install directory is different, you should use get_bloginfo('wpurl') (WordPress installation URI) (Wordpress Codex).

I replaced get_bloginfo('url') with get_bloginfo('wpurl'). Time will tell is it ok? Hope it is :))

Great!

A lot of time I tried to fined this plugin, and only now will use on my blog.

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Do you know that your plug-in will working with WordPress 2.5 or not?

Yes, it works with Wordpress 2.5.

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I've added the plug-in and it's working well. I just wish I knew what the line of code was that would allow me to display my feed stats on my homepage.

There's no code after you write "the following line of code" up at the top.

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BradyDale: Sorry about that, I've fixed it so you should be able to see the code you need.

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I have a question... I don't see an FAQ for this page.
OK, you have the Feed Statistics set to 3 Days of feeds by default. is there any reason not to raise that to a higher number?

I guess what I'm asking is... if a person checks your feed multiple times over whatever period you have Feed Statistics tracking, does it count them as more than one person?
Or does Feed Statistics know that it's the same person opening up his Bloglines account for the 2nd time?

Do you want to keep the number smaller for a more modest, accurate count... or does Feed Statistics just know when people are repeat visitors and not report them?

BradyDale: Feed Statistics doesn't count the same person checking your feed multiple times as multiple people. I use 7 days as my default, and it seems to be pretty accurate. 3 was arbitrarily chosen as the general default; feel free to change it.

Awesome! Thanks for the clarification. I have mine set at 20. Why leave anyone out? I was so worried that I really had 5 people who checked the feed every day. Great news!!!
Thanks for this!

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Very nice plugin. Thanks.
Keep up the good work.

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How can I test to make sure this plugin is actually working? I have had it installed for several days and it still says I have zero subs, and I am sure I have at least one or two, since I'm subscribed to my own feed.

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Works perfectly!

Thanks a lot!

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i've got trouble with the tracking-function. the generated [...]/feed-statistics.php?url=[code] links don't work and i get an error 500.

i use wordpress 2.6

do anybody know this problem and has fixed it?

thank you!

-aki

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Just activating it was enough to bring down my blog. The front page was showing blank. All other pages were attempting to download a file instead of displaying it.
I haven't investigated in details but that enough to disable the plugin once and for all.

I am using the latest version of WordPress. Any idea / fix?

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