Social Traffic Monitor Wordpress Plugin
Note: watch the Social Traffic Monitor section of my blog for information on updates to this plugin.
Social Traffic Monitor is a plugin for Wordpress blogs that monitors your blog traffic for activity coming from social news or bookmarking sites.
When someone clicks on a link to your blog on one of the major social news or bookmarking sites (currently Digg, Netscape, Reddit, Newsvine, Fark, Slashdot, Del.icio.us, and StumbleUpon), the plugin begins to log the visits to that page. This data can then be displayed in the form of a graph of visitors per hour.
Each vertical line represents one hour, and you can customize how many hours the graph shows. You can also choose to display and link to the top referrers below the graph - a great way to prompt other users to return to those sites and vote for your story.
To install, unzip social-traffic.php and upload it to the wp-content/plugins/ directory of your blog. Activate the plugin from your Administration panel, and then, using the theme editor, add this line of code wherever you want to display the chart and/or referrers:
<?php social_traffic(); ?>
Alternatively, you can supply some custom HTML to display along with the chart and/or referrers, if they are displayed by calling the plugin like so:
<php social_traffic('<div>%s</div>'); ?>
The "%s" will be replaced by the output created by the plugin. In this instance, the div tags will only be output if the plugin has something to display.
Note: this plugin will only display the graph and/or referrers on single-post pages, and it won't display anything unless that post has been accessed from one of the social news sites.
The latest version of Social Traffic Monitor is 1.2 (released on 2007-01-26).
Christopher Finke is a software engineer at Mahalo. He is available for birthday parties and bar mitzvahs. 
September 5th, 2007 at 6:35 am
Very usefull tool.
October 25th, 2007 at 9:27 am
Hi. Looks good from what I see of it on your site, but I can't get it working on mine. I use WP 2.3. I have created a widget and added the code to it but all it shows is the title 'Social Traffic'. I have tested it by clicking a link to an article of mine on bookmarked on Reddit but still no output.
November 6th, 2007 at 3:06 pm
I use analytics to monitoring my website
December 13th, 2007 at 3:02 pm
Very usefull tool and great full.thanks
March 15th, 2008 at 7:42 am
Very usefull tool.
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