Wordpress Reporting With a Side of Noodles

I’ve been following Joe Tan’s plugin development for Wordpress for quite a while. I initially checked his stuff out for his Flickr Photo Album plugin, but found my favorite plugin of all-time (behind SpamKarma2 of course): Google Analytics and Feedburner Reports.

Obviously this plugin only benefits you if you use Google Analytics and Feedburner on your blog. Since both are free I don’t know why anyone wouldn’t use them. A nice side benefit is that you don’t have to visit those two sites for an overview of your statistics anymore.

The plugin adds a new menu to your Wordpress admin panel which shows an array of dashboard-type reports. With the latest version of the plugin Joe added three new report options: Rising Sources, Rising Content, and Falling Content. Add those to the other nine reports and you have yourself a one-stop-shop for blog statistics.

Oh, I almost forgot. This plugin will also enter the necessary code for Google Analytics into your blog, including what’s needed to track outbound links. Try this plugin out. You definitely won’t regret it.