WP-Click-Tracker

April 16, 2011

WP-Click-Tracker Plugin

Tracks link clicks from hrefs in posts and pages. REQUIRES PHP at least 5.2

The click tracker works in 2 modes:
1. Scans posts and rewrites them to include a tracking element
2. Enables users to create stand alone trackable links that can be embedded in posts or offsite.

There is advanced reporting for viewing the click statistics. Reports include:
1. Top Referrers of clicks. Helps to coorelate where the popular links are at 🙂
2. Individual clicks.
3. Clicks by day.
4. Clicks by hour.
5. Graphs and charts per link and globally.
6. Admin dashboard widget.

Usage
The click tracker works in 2 modes:
1. Scans posts and rewrites them to include a tracking element
2. Enables users to create stand alone trackable links that can be embedded in posts or offsite.

Links that are included in posts should contain a title paramater in the href to have the reference name
be automatically created. Ex:
<a href=”http://url.com” title=”Link Title”>link copy</a>

Links without a title attribute will have the name parsed through the wrapped text (if that fails default name is used (No Name Given)).

You can also create standalone links using the Link Manager to embed in external websites.

Future Releases
* localization
* export data
* link list sorting
* referrer link list grouping

Bugs
* There’s a conflict with any plugin that uses the onclick method in URLs.

Changelog

0.7.2 ::
*Bug Fixes *

Fixed Timezone issue

0.7.2 ::
*Bug Fixes *

Fixed data reset

Fixed IIS6 HTTPS issue

0.7.1 ::
*Bug Fixes *

Small bug fixes for JS compatibility and slow and sloppy SQL.

0.7 ::
* Modification *

Improved tracking cookie management.

Added setting to disable the tracking of internal (same URL) links

Changed Configure page to use tab ui

*Bug Fixes *

Fixed ssl (https) => flash issue

Fixed sidebar.css 404 error

Added “nowrap” to table template headers

Fixed Day Pie chart for thousandths

0.6 ::
* Modification *

Added Top Clicks Sidebar Widget

Added Todays Clicks Sidebar Widget

Added Link Search (requires MyISAM table type)

Began localization phase

Improved admin interface and menu

Improved tracking mechanism

*Bug Fixes *

Fixed ‘label’ in Exclude IP field on configure page

Fixed “self” link tracking/FireFox issue.

Fixed “https” being ignored during sanity check.

0.5.1 ::
* Modification *

Added Miscellaneous Settings (Sarah Mod)

Changed admin widget date range to match WordPress.com Stats widget

*Bug Fixes *

Fixed ‘label’ in configure page form

0.5 ::
* Modification *

Added settings to disable user clicks

Added ignore IP address for click tracking

Added link statistics reset

Changed graphs to Open Flash Chart

Added additional line chart vectors to display unique clicks

Added link parsing of next and prev template tags

Added link parsing of categories in posts/pages as well as sidebar widget

Added link parsing of tags links template

Improved title extraction to reduce No Name Given auto-label

Added global history and report page
* Bug Fixes *

Click graph date descrepancy issue

Added bypass for external links being double tracked when entered in page

Fixed backwards tracking flags

Changed admin widget ordering to list most clicked to least click

0.4.2 ::
* Modification *

Admin widget links to click admin

Added contextual help
* Bug Fixes *

Comment parsing in admin removal

Fixed pathing issue for blogs in a sub directory

0.4.1 ::
* Improvements *

Added admin dashboard for x day click count line graph
* Bug Fixes *

Fixed Division by zero bug

Changelog
0.4 ::
* Improvements *

Added configuration page

Added “Add Link” mod. Admins can create standalone links for placement on external sites.

Added “Edit Link” mod for editing names or stored links.

Enable or disable individual parsing sections

Enable or disable individual parsing sections

Moved google api js call to only fire on click track pages (was slowing down some areas of the admin).
* Bug Fixes *

fixed spelling of days of week

fixed pathing issue for tracking call (Logan and Gary’s Bug)

fixed comment body parsing (wasn’t grabbing links)

fixed memory issues (FINALLY 🙂

0.3 ::
* Improvements *

Added Indexes on tables for better performance

Updated Install system

Added pie charts for clicks by day and hour
* Bug Fixes *

fixed hour click report formatting

fixed blank link haunting

fixed option saving

0.2.1 ::
* Bug Fixes *

fixed bug for attributes with single quotes

added parsing / tracking of Archive links, Bookmark links, Comment Author URL links and fixed option updates

0.2 ::
* Improvements *

Added reporting

Added blogroll link tracking

Added upgrade alert and plugin compatibility notification

0.1.1 ::
* Bug Fixes *

Moved js to to fix tracking issues in some browsers

0.1 :: Release

Installation

  1. Create backup.
  2. Upload the zip file to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
  3. Unzip.
  4. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress

Please let me know any bugs, improvements, comments, suggestions.

[Documentation](http://blog.ericlamb.net/wp-click-track/”WP Click Track
Documentation”)

Screenshots

  1. <p>Your click tracker report per post / page.</p>

    Your click tracker report per post / page.

  2. <p>Link Report.</p>

    Link Report.

  3. <p>Daily Report.</p>

    Daily Report.

  4. <p>Admin Widget.</p>

    Admin Widget.

  5. <p>Configuration.</p>

    Configuration.

FAQ

Does it track logged in user clicks?

At the moment the click tracker makes no distinction between logged in users and guests.

How soon do stats show up

Stats will show up once a link has been clicked.

I can’t get it to work! Help!!

Check if you have the Google Analytics plugin installed. If it is, make sure you have “Track Outbound Links” unchecked. This conflicts with wp-click-tracker.

Details

  • Version: 0.7.3
  • Active installations: 100
  • WordPress Version: 2.6
  • Tested up to: 3.1.4

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