WordPress Users: Less Spam and Better Stats

May 6, 2007 at 6:48pm in Asides, On the Web

I couldn’t help but notice two wonderful new WordPress plugins today.

Hate the sorting through the hundreds of obvious spam messages Akismet caught just to find that one legitimate comment? Derek Punsalan found a new WordPress plugin which aims to remove the obvious spam comments. I can already see Simple Spam Filter becoming a vital tool in every WordPress user’s anti-spam toolkit.

Do you hate Google Analytics’ interface but don’t have the cash for the superb statistics tracking software Mint? Automattic, WordPress’ parent company, has released the Automattic Stats plugin for self-hosted WordPress blogs. The new plugin brings the power of WordPress.com stats to any WordPress blog. While I’ll be sticking with my trusty Mint, I know quite a few bloggers out there who will benefit from this. Learn more about the technical details of Automattic Stats on Andy Skelton’s blog.

3 Comments

1 Smaran on May 6, 2007 at 11:10 pm (Quote):

I actually requested Matt a while ago to release such a plug-in, but at the time he said it wasn’t possible. I’m really glad they have finally decided to release it, because I used to love the Flash representations it creates of page views, incoming links, etc.

Thanks for posting about it, Ron.
2 Arjun on May 7, 2007 at 6:14 am (Quote):

Fine, they wanted to increase the speed by taking off the stats from the site server, but then displaying results on the global dashboard instead of the site dashboard doesn’t suit me

And Google Analytics isn’t _that_ bad. I mean, it takes time getting used to it, but then…
3 Arjun on May 8, 2007 at 6:04 am (Quote):

Using WordPress stats for about 30 hours now, and they’re terrific. The update frequency just beats Analytics big time.

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