Holy Moly! Graphical visitor stats for your blog.
Check out the latest plugin from the community: real time visitor statistics for your Movable Type 4.0 dashboard. Mark Carey, the developer of the plugin and the guy behind the very popular site MT Hacks
has been busy building a number of different plugins specifically
designed for MT4, not to mention updating some of his other popular
plugins like Fast Search and some user interface plugins to customize the user interface to work better for him.
What plugins would you like to see the community work on?
And that's not all, the community has produced a number of other great plugins in the last couple of days. For example, those of you pining for the olden days, Arvind has made a great retro dashboard widget called "My Blogs" which surfaces an MT3 style blog listing widget for your MT4 dashboard. Cool!
What plugins would you like to see the community work on?
Ansia
August 17, 2007 5:34 AM | Reply
Very good job. I like graphical stats better than numeric ones.
Lutz-R. Frank
August 20, 2007 2:12 AM | Reply
Love this plugin - Thank You very much - it fit's perfectly into the MT4 'feeling'. One one little issue - the sidebar widget test was awfully big, so I didn' install it.
Kevin
August 21, 2007 8:42 AM | Reply
This is nice, but why does it write to mt-static? Hint: static.
Byrne Reese
August 21, 2007 8:48 AM | Reply
Good question. The reason the graph is written to the mt-static directory despite it being semi-dynamic content is that mt-static is assured to be web accessible by your browser, which it needs to be in order to function properly.
Kevin
August 21, 2007 10:47 AM | Reply
Thanks Byrne. The problem is that I've tried to put mt-static in a "static" area of the file system (e.g. /usr/share/movabletype) and want to effectively mount it read-only. (Or chmod 444 for files, anyway.)
Byrne Reese
August 21, 2007 11:15 AM | Reply
Make sure that your mt-static directory is web accessible, wherever it is. In other words, you should be able to type something like this into your browser: http://somedomain.com/mt-static/. It should display the following text "mt-static: OK".
Kevin
August 21, 2007 11:17 AM | Reply
Right, it's web accessible, but the user as whom the web server is running isn't provided write-access to mt-static. That is, mt-static structure, is readable, but not writable. Which, for static content is as it should be. But then the 'support' directory can't be generated and log information can't be written to it. As it shouldn't be.
Byrne Reese
August 21, 2007 11:24 AM | Reply
Got it. Yes, the mt-static directory should not be writable... except for the support directory that should only be writable by the web server. Files that are stored there by the way are given very obscure file names to add a layer of security to keep people from overwriting those files. I should also mention, in regards to security, that the files written there are not system critical files.
Darren
August 21, 2007 6:33 PM | Reply
Has anyone got the 'list visit' link working when you click on a days bar to get the link that appears below the chart? I get an error message when following the link that says "unknown error occurred - Unknown action list_visit". The url in the link is http://somedomain.com/mt/mt.cgi?__mode=list_visit&filter_key=_by_date&blog_id=11&filter_val=20070822-20070822 If it's working for you, did you have to do anything special to get it to work, or was it ok from the start?
sernakPlywood
November 12, 2007 1:21 AM | Reply
The reason the graph is written to the mt-static directory despite it being semi-dynamic content is that mt-static is assured to be web accessible by your browser thanks from argplywood and sernak