WordPress Plugin: Automatic Stats

Saturday night, Andy Skelton released his Automatic Stats plugin, which uses the WordPress.com traffic graphs on your own self-hosted WordPress blog. Looks kinda like a feed of sorts. Check it out.

Andy has some reasons in response to complaints about the way the stats reports are displayed on the WordPress dashboard.

• It’s central. You can check the stats for all of your blogs in one place.
• It’s easy on your host. Your server doesn’t have to ask our server for raw data each time you browse the reports.
• It’s faster for you. Our servers can talk directly to the stats database and display the results unaffected by the loads and limits of your server. Sometimes handling all that data requires more system resources than shared hosting setups allow.
• It’s quite reliable.
• It’s future-proof. Whenever we update the reporting interface, add features, improve graphs, fix bugs, etc., you don’t have to upgrade your plugin.
• It’s ready now. We already spent a lot of time developing one reporting interface. It wouldn’t make sense to make you wait while we develop another one.
• It’s not always going to be this way. We’re planning to expose API’s to let plugin developers query the stats database. This will open the field for anyone to create and share new reporting tools, even ones that live in your own dashboard.

You’ll also find a link back to the blog’s own dashboard near the top of every report page. Make sure you have upgraded to WordPress 2.1.x before you attempt to use this new plugin on your blog.

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