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May 22nd, 2008 by Tom
Well, the end is here…
So here’s the vital stats:
66 posts (well, 67 including this one) with 3 categories and 231 tags! 8 pages and 7 (good) comments with 3 spam comments. 210 unique visitors with 726 visits serving up 20219 pages using 393.75Mb of bandwidth (both upload and download). Here a screen shot of the traffic data:
And this list shows just how much I’ve visted my site (I’m first on the list…):
Anyway, here is my summary of the response to the brief:
I have implemented a MySQL database & set up this WordPress installation on my own web space, going from version 2.3.3 to 2.5 to 2.5.1. I have modified the CSS, HTML and PHP files for several themes (blue box and unnamed) and have added many plugins.
I have modified the PHP in my themes, as well as writing my own PHP Skype Button widget plugin.
I’ve blogged everything I’ve done and installed a gallery, added YouTube videos and FLV’s on my server. Not forgetting google maps and google maps geotracking.
I’ve written two interactive essays which are presented on separate pages with static/interactive bibliography’s – essay one and essay two.
Enjoy!
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May 22nd, 2008 by Tom
You may have notice the page at the top called “Blog Stats” that appeared the other day… if not then go and have a look! I didn’t blog about it when I set it up because I wanted the plugin, “WP/Geotrack”, to collect some statistics first. This plugin logs all the visits to the site (only for 30 days 
) and uses the originating IP address to work out the nearest town/city and plot it on a Google Map! It also creates a list of the 100 last vistors, the most popular pages on the site and the top ten referers. Heres the Google Map:
Powered by MaxMind GeoLite City and Wordpress Geotrack Plugin.
Heres a screenshot of the map at the time of writing:
As you can see I have had vistors to my blog from all over the work: India, Brazil, Australia, Russia, Estonia, Ukraine, Thailand and Japan, as well as lots of vistors in America, Europe and the UK. I’m pretty impressed!
The most visted page is (unsuprisingly) the home page, with the blog page coming in second and blog stats in third place. The top referer was a post on Ecademy, with Janine’s blog in second place and Mez’s blog was the third top referer.
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May 22nd, 2008 by Tom
I’ve just had another look over both of my essay and have made a few changes to essay two. Both are now completely finshed, so take a look at essay one and essay two.
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May 21st, 2008 by Tom
Thanks to Simon’s comment suggesting that I chaned the feed to just the URL and not the RSS feed along with changing it from searching the description to the title it has actually displayed something! This time I took a screenshot of it working:
Here’s the screen shot of the working RSS feed on my blog:
And here’s a screenshot of the pipe:
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May 21st, 2008 by Tom
I tried out PicLens Plus plugin and much like the standard version it doesn’t work – looks like its still got some problems with WordPress 2.5 or some of the other plugins I have installed – it suggests disabling all of your plugins to see if works then, but I really dont want to do that as I will lose lots of setting at it will take ages to probably find out it still doesn’t work! Oh well… I’m happy with nextgen gallery as it is.
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May 20th, 2008 by Tom
Having had the Akismet comment anti-spam plugin installed right from the start I have had no “spam” up until the past couple of day. Unfortunatly out of the two comments that it thought were spam, only one of the actually was, the other was Simon’s comment on my post about my Yahoo Pipes. This is a screenshot of the spam that Akismet stopped:
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May 20th, 2008 by Tom
Ive just posted the first draft of my Essay Two, which responds to the question “Web-based communities such as social-networking sites, wikis, blogs, and folksonomies have become synonymous with Web 2.0. Using two or more examples explain the Web 2.0 phenomenon and how it differs from Web 1.0.”
I have also updated the first essay after having made a few changes.
Read essay one here and essay two here.
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May 20th, 2008 by Tom
Well after having removed my “FriendFeed” RSS feed there have been no more rss.php errors! I still don’t know what was causing the errors but seen as I removed that feed last week and I haven’t seen any since I can only assume it was FriendFeed.
Also the site seem to have sped up a little, again possibly something to do with this dodgy RSS feed.
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May 16th, 2008 by Tom
Having waited a few hours my monster-pipe feed to show its still not showing anything (despite it working before I selected to view it as an RSS feed – grr!). So back to Yahoo pipes I went – looking at the feed it said that it could not sort into descending order using the description – so I removed the sort box at the end. No error now but it still saying no feed! Instead of stories on social networking I changed the keywords to “wordpress” and “web 2.0″ – most people’s should have at least one post with the word “wordpress” in it (or at least I hope so). So I ran the pipe – something has got to come up with these key words – NOTHING! Even making a really simple feed reader that looks for “wordpress” on my RSS feed doesn’t work… and I have plenty of posts with wordpress written in them so I think there’s definitely something up with yahoo pipes.
Here’s the update pipe picture:
If anyone has any idea what I’ve done wrong then I’d be grateful if you could point me in the right direction.
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