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The other day I started searching for a wordpress plug-in that can track your online visitors and give reports. I search Google and came across a plug-in that does exactly what I was looking for. It has a corny name but it is a great program. Its called

‘ WassUp’

Probably after that lovely campaign that Budweiser ran a few years back. Basically this program is a snap to setup and don’t require any editing so its basically idiot proof!.

Features

The first and probably best feature of this plug-in is Spy. It tells you everything that you need to know about the current logged in Visitor. Such as the IP address, spider, the operating system, time they logged on and more. It also creates reports to organise visitors and information about your visitors with stats such as those that I listed below.

• ip / hostname
• referer
• spider
• search engines used (includes Google Images)
• keywords
• SERP (search engine result page)
• operating system / language / browser
• pages viewed (chronologically and per user session)
• complete user agent
• name of user logged in
• name of comment’s author-top ten charts with aggregate data (top queries, requests, os, browsers)

All of these features can be accessed VIA the dashboard in your admin menu.

There are also customisable options included which are

• Refreshing minutes
• Users levels required
• Enable/Disable recording
• Record or not users logged in
• Record or not spiders and bots
• Record or not exploit attempts (libwww-perl user agent)
• IPs to exclude from recording
• Alert admin for table growth
• Empty/Reset the database table
• Export current table in SQL format
• Automatically deletes records older then selected period (day, week, months, year)
• Manually deletes records older then selected period (day, week, months, year)

Finally to put the icing on the cake one more sweet option is that there is a widget involved. You can add a widget to your sidebar which will show your visitors in real-time how many people are on your blog. The widget is in AJAX of course.

The latest version 1.3.5 had just come out this week. This plug-in can be snatched by visiting the download site here

I have decided to put Xtremedirectory.com up for sale. I came to this conclusion simply because I want to put more and 100% of my time into Astawerks.com and Astawerks.net. Xtreme Directory has been fun and I grew it from PR N/A to PR 4 in just a few months. It would have been sooner if G**gle updated Pagerank a bit quicker.

The price that I am putting on Xtreme Directory is going to be $500. Simply because I put a lot of work into it and it has a good amount of potential. The make it quick here are the stats for the site

Alexa ranking is 139k It has 3300 Categories and around 3000 active links. It has 7000 back links and was receiving around 250 visitors a day until I stopped promoting it.

I will sell the directory as is or you can just have the domain for a lower price. If you are interested in this directory please leave a comment for me in this post or contact me. You can also visit my post on DP at http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=558210

That will do it! She got Owned!

I am going to review a new random Wordpress Plugin everyday on the Astawerks Blog now. I search the internet far and wide to find wordpress plugins to help make life and wordpress easier to cope with each today. Today I am going to review a new plugin called Local Analytics V1.13.

Local Analytics is a Wordpress plugin for integrating Google Analytics, the free web analysis service by Google, into your Word Press powered blog. The plugin is highly configurable and also allows caching of the urchin.js file locally, in order to enable faster loading of pages.

The plugin is highly configurable, yet simple. A normal user only needs to specify his / her Analytics UID, while advanced users can completely configure the behavior of the plugin.

Some features of this plugin are that this program is

• It is Highly configurable
• It Supports local caching of urchin.js for fast loading of pages.
• It can Support compression of the local javascript files using mod_gzip.
• It Includes support for tracking email links, external links and file downloads.
• It Includes support for tracking subdomains and main domain in a single profile.
• It Includes support for tracking visits to Admin Panels.
• It Includes support for tracking logged in users.
• And finally it Includes uninstaller for complete removal of the plugin.

The plugin can be downloaded here
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-analytics-for-wordpress/

Many of you know that once you are able to get a story popular on Digg.com the traffic will flow. The traffic will flow to your site at an amazing rate, amazing enough that word-press might not be Able to handle it. There are multiple steps that can be done to prevent the damage.

The first step is to use Litespeed web-server instead of Apache. I have been a huge fan of Apache for a long time. Apache destroys IIS is so many different ways!

With Litespeed you can enable the web-server’s gzip function resulting gzipped file. Litespeed allows you to set a a gzip cache directory. For normal traffic it’s worth doing so pages load faster.
The mod_gzip site is a great resource if you want to find out more about compressing HTTP content.

There is a wordpress plug-in out there called Super Cache 0.4! Download it here!

Major features of this plug-in include:

• A “lock down” button. Also known as a “Digg Proof” button. This basically prepares your site for a heavy digging or slashdotting. It locks down the static cache files and doesn’t delete them when a new comment is made.
• Automatic updating of your .htaccess file. It is best to backup your existing .htaccess file being install the plugin
• Don’t super cache any request with GET parameters. You really need to use fancy permalinks now.
• WordPress search works again.
• Better version checking of wp-cache-config.php and advanced-cache.php in case you’re using an old one.
• Better support for Microsoft Windows.
• Properly serve cached static files on Red Hat/Cent OS systems or others that have an entry for gzip in /etc/mime.types.
• The Reject URI function works again and now uses regular expressions!

This is something definitely worth checking out if your blog gets a lot of traffic like mine