when HiFi is just not an option

The guys at Clicky recently wrote a post asking someone to re-develop their WordPress plugin. Since I have quite a bit of code lying around for what they needed, I emailed them and told them I'd be happy to build it. If you don't know Clicky, you really should check it out, it's a pretty solid analytics package with some cool realtime features, be warned though: their "Spy" feature is quite addictive...

Update: the plugin is now out of beta and on wordpress.org, search for Clicky in your backend and install it, or download it from the Clicky plugin page on WordPress.org!

For a 1.0, this plugin has a pretty decent feature set:

• Automatically adding your Clicky tracking code everywhere:
  • Option to ignore admins
  • Option to store names of commenters
  • Option to track posts & pages as goals and assign a revenue to that page or post
• An overview of your site's statistics on your dashboard
• Integration with the Clicky.me Short URL service:
  • Automatically create a short link for each now post and page
  • Option to automatically tweet posts and pages on publish

It's using my backend class for it's admin UI, so it looks nice and clean (click for larger version):

And it adds a box to your edit post / edit page screen in which you can decide to Tweet the post or not if you've got those settings enabled and define the goal tracking variables:

Clicky Tracking for WordPress is a post from Joost de Valk's Yoast - Tweaking Websites.A good WordPress blog needs good hosting, you don't want your blog to be slow, or, even worse, down, do you? Check out my thoughts on WordPress hosting!