Feed Subscriber Stats Wordpress Plugin
June 25th, 2008 | Posted in TOOLS.
Ever wanted to see your FeedBurner stats on the Wordpress Dashboard? Well now you can with this simple plugin. The plugin uses FeedBurner’s Awareness API to get your feed subscriber stats directly from FeedBurner. So now you can easily check your subscriber stats from the Wordpress Administration section.
Installation Instructions
1. Download the plugin, extract and upload it to your plugins folder on your server.
2. Activate the plugin.
3. Go to your Wordpress Dashboard.
4. It will tell you that the URL is blank. Hit the “Edit” link and enter your FeedBurner information and hit “Update”.
Make sure that the Awareness API is activated on your FeedBurner Account. You can do this by logging in to your FeedBurner account, click on “Publicize”,. Then click “Awareness API” and Activate it.
UPDATE: PHP 4 support has now been added.
Do you use the plugin? Tell us what you think…
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baron
June 26th, 2008 at 5:03 pm
hi. Thanks for plugin
perfect.
Regards
Allan Collins
June 26th, 2008 at 5:07 pm
@baron - You’re welcome. I hope that you enjoy it.
Trisha
June 26th, 2008 at 5:12 pm
I tried to activate the plugin but received a fatal error notification.
Said something about a syntax error and it could not activate the plug in.
I had to deactivate all plugins in order to get rid of the error message.
Any ideas because I would love to be able to use this plugin =)
Marco Lombardini
June 26th, 2008 at 5:56 pm
Good idea for a plugin! Though I’m having a problem. After I edit the feedburner link (~u/mysite)it tells me that my “Awareness API is not Activated” which it is.
Allan Collins
June 26th, 2008 at 7:12 pm
@Trish and Marco - I have updated the plugin to support PHP 4 and PHP 5. Originally the plugin only worked on servers with PHP 5. This latest update should fix this issues.
Thank you for the feedback.
Trisha
June 26th, 2008 at 7:39 pm
OK thanks. I installed the update and the plugin activated.
Thanks for responding so quickly.
The new problem is after installing all other dashboard info disappeared. Ya know, the WP information and there is no square box with orange at the top.
There is just a line that says Feed Subscriber Stats. I just opened the Feedburner account (I had Feedblitz) so I don’t expect to have actual stats but I do expect to see the square box and do not expect to have everything else on the dashboard disappear. =(
Is there a way I can email you a screenshot of the dashboard? Also, I have several plugins installed and I am also using 4 blogs. I tried this new version on 2 blogs with the same results.
Trisha
June 26th, 2008 at 8:01 pm
Well, I am red-faced. Duh. All it is supposed to show is the words Feed Subscriber Stats and the stats and the edit link.
There is still that nasty little problem though of the rest of the dashboard stuff going poof…=(
Allan Collins
June 26th, 2008 at 9:37 pm
@Trisha - I have sent you an email…
sunny beach
June 26th, 2008 at 11:34 pm
great plugin - I use it on my site
Allan Collins
June 27th, 2008 at 1:23 am
@sunny beach - Great, let us know how it goes.
Allan Collins
June 27th, 2008 at 2:42 am
@Trisha - The plugin should now work without making the rest of your dashboard vanish with the Awareness API activated or not.
autworld
June 27th, 2008 at 9:24 am
thank you, great, useful plugin!
Allan Collins
June 27th, 2008 at 10:36 am
@autworld - You’re welcome, tell us how it goes.
José Luís
June 28th, 2008 at 8:20 am
Hi! Do you know how to identify e-mail subscribers?
Allan Collins
June 28th, 2008 at 12:32 pm
@José - Great suggestion, I will look into that.
c.urdaneta
June 30th, 2008 at 7:44 am
Thanks Alan, great plugin!
I’m with José Luis suggestion
Regards
fryevhen
June 30th, 2008 at 8:52 am
Wow! Great plugin! )
Allan Collins
June 30th, 2008 at 11:21 am
@c.urdaneta - You’re welcome.
@fryevhen - Thanks.
HR Blog
June 30th, 2008 at 11:27 am
Just a quick bugfix I did.. I have short tags disabled on my php.ini so in the feedsubstatsphp5 file I had to change <? to <?php in order for it to work on my installation. It is generally good practice to use the longer <?php tag for plugins that will be distributed because of different php configurations. I’d make that fix for the next release
Allan Collins
June 30th, 2008 at 11:46 am
@HR Blog - Good to know, I will make that change for the next release. Thank you.
Vinicius
July 9th, 2008 at 6:16 am
Hi there, bro!
if my feedburner stats shows an 11 average subscribers within a 30 day period , it shoud shows a total subscriber count of 330, or am i wrong???
Allan Collins
July 9th, 2008 at 7:55 am
@Vinicius - The FeedBurner Awareness API only shows daily stats and not monthly. I believe how FeedBurner does it is that you only have 11 subscribers total and not 330.
Myrko
July 13th, 2008 at 10:23 am
Heyas, nice plugin, but I can’t add the URL on the Dashboard. I activated Awareness API. Whenever I enter the corrent Feed-URL “http://feeds.feedburner.com/caneiblog” it keeps saying: “Feed URL is blank. Edit”
Any hints? Thx.
Myrko
July 13th, 2008 at 11:40 am
Bte. I now get
Warning: DOMDocument::load() [domdocument.load]: URL file-access is disabled in the server configuration in /[edited my path]/wp-content/plugins/feed-subscriber-stats/feedsubstatsphp5.php on line 5
Warning: DOMDocument::load(http://api.feedburner.com/awareness/1.0/GetFeedData?uri=caneiblog/) [domdocument.load]: failed to open stream: no suitable wrapper could be found in /[edited my path]/wp-content/plugins/feed-subscriber-stats/feedsubstatsphp5.php on line 5
Warning: DOMDocument::load() [domdocument.load]: I/O warning : failed to load external entity “http://api.feedburner.com/awareness/1.0/GetFeedData?uri=caneiblog/” in /[edited my path]/wp-content/plugins/feed-subscriber-stats/feedsubstatsphp5.php on line 5
Fatal error: Call to a member function getAttribute() on a non-object in /[edited my path]/wp-content/plugins/feed-subscriber-stats/feedsubstatsphp5.php on line 11
Any idea what I should do?
Thx!
Allan Collins
July 13th, 2008 at 12:59 pm
@Myrko - Take off the trailing slash.
I’m going to make a fix for those who put the trailing slash on the next update.
Please let me know if that works for you, I will strive to make this plugin work.
Myrko
July 13th, 2008 at 1:39 pm
Thx Allan, although the plugin is activated again I can’t see it anymore in the Dashboard. I even reinstalled it. Is there maybe anything left from the previous problem?
Allan Collins
July 13th, 2008 at 1:49 pm
@Myrko - I’m sending you an email so I can help you with this problem.
Myrko
July 13th, 2008 at 2:41 pm
Great, thx.
DaveBurns
July 15th, 2008 at 3:19 am
Hi, Allan.
I just tried installing this on my blog but get the same results that Myrko got above (the 4 ugly messages). The URL I entered does not end in a slash. The awareness API is activated for me on FeedBurner. Any tips on what I might be doing wrong? I’ve deactivated in the meantime. Let me know if I can help debug. Thanks,
Dave
Allan Collins
July 15th, 2008 at 10:07 am
@DaveBurns & Myrko -
The problem may be due to your host not allowing remote file-access.
You should probably contact them regarding the “Warning: DOMDocument::load() [domdocument.load]: URL file-access is disabled in the server configuration” error message.
Please let me know how it goes.
DaveBurns
July 16th, 2008 at 3:42 pm
Allan - My host is useless for support questions like that. Is there a simple test I can do to confirm if this is the problem or not? Thanks,
Dave
Allan Collins
July 16th, 2008 at 4:46 pm
@DaveBurns - Perhaps there is a way to test it… I have created a plugin that you can install that will try to read something local and then try to read something remote. Just unpack the zip file into your plugins folder and activate the plugin.
http://blog.collinsinternet.com/tester/feedsubtester.zip
The test will run on the dashboard. Let me know how it goes.
DaveBurns
July 19th, 2008 at 1:29 am
Allan -
Looks like a no go. I got the following which seems to confirm your theory:
Feed Sub Tester
Passes Local Test.
Warning: DOMDocument::load() [domdocument.load]: URL file-access is disabled in the server configuration in //blog/wp-content/plugins/feedsubtester/feedsubtester.php on line 19
Warning: DOMDocument::load(http://feeds.feedburner.com/collinsinternet) [domdocument.load]: failed to open stream: no suitable wrapper could be found in //blog/wp-content/plugins/feedsubtester/feedsubtester.php on line 19
Warning: DOMDocument::load() [domdocument.load]: Validation failed: no DTD found !I/O warning : failed to load external entity “http://feeds.feedburner.com/collinsinternet” in //blog/wp-content/plugins/feedsubtester/feedsubtester.php on line 19
Thanks for the follow through. If you have other ideas about how to make it work, please let me know.
Cheers,
DaveBurns
Allan Collins
July 19th, 2008 at 3:35 pm
@DaveBurns - I’m sorry to hear that this plugin will not work for you…
Fortunately, I have created a special edition of this plugin that WILL work for you in this situation. I have sent the link to your email.
Thanks.
Gary
July 20th, 2008 at 6:16 pm
Your plug-in was working great until I did the last update. Now all I get is “feed not found”. One thing is I need a “/” in the feed and everytime I enter it and hit update get “feed not found”, hit edit again and the “/” has disappeared when I go back to edit the feed.
Any ideas?
Allan Collins
July 20th, 2008 at 10:55 pm
@Gary - Thanks for informing us of this issue, we have just released version 1.1.9 to resolve this. Please let us know if there is anything else.
Gary
July 21st, 2008 at 8:29 am
Worked like a charm!! Thanks…
Aaron@Effortless HR Software
July 24th, 2008 at 2:52 pm
@Allan - New version is working great. Every once in a while it times out trying to contact the feedburner API, but that’s not the plugins fault. Thanks for keeping it updated!
Allan Collins
July 24th, 2008 at 2:55 pm
@Aaron - I’m working on some excellent features for version 2.0 that should speed it up a bit.
Jason Swadley
July 28th, 2008 at 8:59 pm
Allan, thanks for the work. I’m very much looking forward to 2.0!!!
Philix
August 1st, 2008 at 4:11 am
This is a great plugin
Allan Collins
August 1st, 2008 at 7:19 am
Thank you.
Allan Collins
August 3rd, 2008 at 10:43 am
Does anyone have any suggestions for version 2.0?
Visit: http://blog.collinsinternet.com/36/plugin-preview-feed-subscriber-stats-20/
and post a comment with your suggestions!
Jason Burks
September 9th, 2008 at 5:05 am
By the way, in case no one has come up with a solution for the “four ugly error messages” problem, the reason you’re getting that is that url_fopen() is disabled in some hosting providers’ php.ini files. I use Media Temple, and it was on mine. However, they do allow is to be overridden. The fix is quite simple–add this line to your .htaccess file:
php_flag allow_url_fopen on
Save it and reload your Dashboard. I did, and it fixes it for me. HTH!
-Jason
Allan Collins
September 10th, 2008 at 11:21 am
@Jason - Thanks for finding that!
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