Popularity Contest Plugin by Alex King is like a stats plugin on steroids. Not the cheap horse steroids, but some kind of high-end East European Gymnast steroids.
It breaks down all posts/categories/dates/comments/trackbacks on your entire WP blog, and ranks them relative to each other. Handy for telling at a glance where the most “interesting” (at least to everyone but yourself – you likely know the stuff that interests yourself already) stuff at a glance.
Popularity Contest is a WordPress plugin that uses page views and feedback (comments, trackbacks, etc.) to determine how popular each of your posts are (in relation to each other). The values given to each type of view and feedback are configurable1 and popularity for all posts is recalculated whenever they are changed
Update: Wow. This plugin is sure handy for identifying where the spamroaches are trying to sneak into my blog! Posts that should be receiving no traffic are skyrocketing up the “popularity” charts. Amazing. Stupid spambots.
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Hey that is a nifty plugin, just hoisted it myself. It could use some less manual options for listing the popularity score at the bottom of the post.
It would be nice to have say a plug-in that would display all the active plugins in use, for say posting on a Colophon like page… it should not be to hard to do from seeing how the plug-ins admin page lists stuff.
PS- Nice ico!
Yeah… WPAutoColophon would be handy! I’d use it.
I’m finding there is a LOT of noise in the Popularity Plugin’s stats, since it seems to count bots as “views” so the stats of users vs. bots are lost. It would be really cool if it would only count stats for user-agents used by humans, and not bots.
Thanks for the reminder to create a favicon.ico file! Took forever to figure out how to get Safari to show it, though. What a pain THAT was… Firefox Just Workedâ„¢, but I had to use an app called Safari Cache Cleaner to selectively remove the favicon cache for darcynorman.net – which is odd, because there WASN’T a favicon there before!
Oh, and I had to tweak the “weights” of a couple of types for the stats to make any sense at all.
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hmm, wish they had this for MT