A few days ago, I wrote a guest post on Pro Blog Design about creating a Stats page for your WordPress blog. One day later, Kyle, who liked the article, wrote a post here on WP Hacks to let you know about my guest post. One of WP Hacks readers, Wesley, enjoyed the post and decided to create a WordPress plugin to enhance the functionality of my initial hacks.
The plugin, entitled “Blog Stats” makes available a number of statistics about your blog, including number of posts, comments, trackbacks, users and categories, PageRank, Alexa rank, Technorati rank and Feedburner RSS count. To ensure you always have the most up to date values, the plugin automatically update statistics on a daily basis.
How to Install and use the Blog Stats WordPress Plugin
First, you have to download the plugin on Wesley’s website or on the WordPress.org page.
Once you have it, unzip it on your hard drive and upload the plugin file to the wp-content/plugins directory of your WordPress blog.
Login to your WordPress dashboard, go to the Plugins page and activate Blog Stats.
You now have a bunch of new shortcodes that you can use in pages and posts. If you don’t know what a shortcode is or want more info about it, I wrote some shortcodes-related posts on WP Recipes.
Ready to use Template
Feel lazy? After you installed the plugin, just create a new page and paste the following code in it. It will output all stats available from the Blog Stats plugin.
user_count: [user_count]
post_count: [post_count]
page_count: [page_count]
comment_count: [comment_count]
trackback_count: [trackback_count]
avg_comments_per_post: [avg_comments_per_post]
category_count: [category_count]
tag_count: [tag_count]
link_count: [link_count]
pagerank: [pagerank]
technorati_authority: [technorati_authority]
technorati_rank: [technorati_rank]
alexa_rank: [alexa_rank]
feedburner_subscribers: [feedburner_subscribers]
google_backlinks: [google_backlinks]
yahoo_backlinks: [yahoo_backlinks]
delicious_bookmarks: [delicious_bookmarks]
That’s all. I must say that I like this plugin a lot and Wesley really did a nice job!
Jean-Baptiste Jung
Jean-Baptiste Jung is a 27 years old blogger/web developper/web designer who lives in the French-Speaking part of Belgium. Jean-Baptiste maintains two blogs: Cats Who Code where he and other authors write about Web Development, Web design, Blogging tips and WordPress, and WpRecipes where Jean shares useful WordPress snippets on a daily basis. When he's not blogging or having fun with codes, Jean loves to spend time with his wife and cat, and travelling everywhere he can.
Nice, best post I found on the subject.
If you add code of a full page template using your code ...
best collection 
Does anyone have problem after updating? in my case, my Visitor map doesn't work well after updating >.< 
very nice theme, but what exactly means wp 2.7 ready? is it compatible with the newest version of wordpress? get ...
14 feature in theme looks quite interesting but yet have problem on SEO with some theme of Wordpress. 
Nicen themes, good work :) 
Thanks for the article, I’m glad you liked it
I’l be updating the plugin with quantcast and compete ranking, as well as more error reporting later this week.
Great plugin indeed. Got it from wesley blog some days ago and already using it. Good piece of work
it such a great plugin.Nice post about it. I’ll try to install this plugin in my blog. Thank you.
@Wesley: You did a nice job, so I’m happy to write about it
I prefer to use cystats
Great plugin. I must have a new page now in my blog for this awesome plugin. Nice share.
-Hussein
This looks good to me. I’ve just installed a few plugins today. Have bookmarked it and will update my plugin again soon.
Awesome plugin!
Can this be enhanced to display Twitter Followers, and Compete Rank?