Wordpress From Where
WP-From/Where is a brand new Wordpress 1.5 compatible plugin that logs search engine traffic to your site and displays a list of clickable keywords that people have used to get to your site! For example, on this post about homeless photography, I’ve gotten visitors from the following keywords:
Download:
You can get the latest version of this plugin from its repository page. You can also download the file directly.
Installation:
To install this plugin, simply upload wp-from-where to your wp-content/plugins/ and activate in the admin interface. It’s a one-click install!
Usage:
After the plugin is installed, it will begin logging records immediately. However, to display them, you’ll need to call a defined function. For example, in my sidebar.php file, I have the following:
<?php if(is_single()) { ?>
<div class="line"></div>
<h3><?php _e('You Came From'); ?></h3>
<ul>
<?php wp_from_where
(true, 'DESC', 20, '<li>', '</li>', '') ?>
</ul>
<?php } ?>
You need a call to wp_head(); somewhere in your header.php file for it to log to the db properly. The function wp_from_where takes the following arguments:
- boolean $per_post, true if you want to display these per_post, false if you want a total across all posts.
- enum $sort = (’ASC’, ‘DESC’), defaults to ‘DESC’ to list highest hit-rate keywords first.
- int $limit, defaults to showing 10 items at a time.
- string $before, defaults to the blank string, prepends each item.
- string $after, defaults to the blank string, appends each item.
- string $sep, defaults to a space-comma, goes in between each item.
Update:
The latest version indexes both the post_id and the keyword for much better performance. I have about 25,000 items in my production db right now, and my blog was becoming uncommonly slow. With the new index, everything’s back to normal! Why, you wonder? The queries match both post_id and keyword per user hit, which, as you can imagine, is quite a bit. Now we should be scalable again.
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on August 9th, 2005 at 3:11 am
Wouldn’t it be cool to have the information which is collected by the plugin displayed in the admin section of wordpress? In the dashboard for example, so that you can see the latest keywords.
on October 25th, 2005 at 8:30 am
Having trouble installing since my WP theme doesn’t have a sidebar.php
so where should I cut and paste the call a defined function code ?
Thanks!
on November 28th, 2005 at 7:57 pm
hmm, this is interesting actually. we need a few more seo tools for wordpress like this one. but i must admit, i would also rather use it via the dashboard instead of making it public like this.
can anyone give any pointers as to where one can insert the above code to get it to display admin-side?
thanks for the work so far!
on March 13th, 2006 at 1:18 am
The repository is down. Do you have a mirror?
on April 18th, 2006 at 8:55 am
Alek: Perhaps put it on a password-protected WP-page?
on April 18th, 2006 at 4:39 pm
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on April 21st, 2006 at 6:24 am
[…] Faz algum tempo instalei neste blog um plug-in chamado “WP From / Where”1, que identifica através de quais palavras chaves digitadas no Google, o visitante chegou até aqui. As informações são apresentadas na barra direita, no campo “You Came From” quando o post é visto isoladamente. Até ai tudo bem, eu sempre acompanhava a visita do pessoal e sabia qual o principal assunto procurado no blog através desses termos. […]
on May 27th, 2006 at 5:58 pm
hey
does the plugin work on pages or only posts ?
rgds
jakob
www.boyco.dk
on June 18th, 2006 at 9:48 am
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on July 20th, 2006 at 9:52 am
hey elliott, i wanna have a copy but it seems that the download page is not available anymore.
on July 24th, 2006 at 12:55 pm
Still, I don’t see the point in doing that. I mean, what does it have to do with your content.
on December 5th, 2007 at 4:56 am
Hello, i searched Google for internship programs and found your Wordpress blog.
Sheesh, a lot of internship programs are like glorified secreterial positions, take it from someone who’s been there and did that. Paid internships are few and far between as i’m sure you may already know. Something that helped me was a program called College Works Painting. Basicly they select students and train them to run home painting crews. Of course they earn money, but they get some pretty good hands on experience at business leadership. Its pretty much seasonal, but i know several college students who were having financial problems that were helped by this program during warmer months. If you know a student, or are still a student, google the term College Works Painting and check out their website.
on December 31st, 2007 at 3:35 am
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on March 5th, 2008 at 3:44 pm
Please, can you help? The plugin doesn’t record any arrival! (you can check it at my site)
Maybe it’s because I’m using global translator?
:(